• Tax planning, like running bases, requires a degree of skill, a degree of luck and a good measure of diligence.

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  • Grumberg was charged with four counts of third degree criminal sale of a firearm, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and other gun-related charges.

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  • When the effects are calculated in a standard climate model, the result is a reduction in average temperature of 0.00005oC (one twenty-thousandth of a degree Celsius, or one ten-thousandth of a degree Fahrenheit).

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  • The point of managed care was to introduce a degree of rationing into a health-care system that, by the late 1980s, was suffering from inflation of 15% a year or even more.

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  • The unfortunate bailouts of profligate homeowners were to a high degree a symptom of a weak dollar that made housing so initially attractive to begin with.

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  • The effect is quite large too, that 0.72 of a degree is not far off the 0.8 of a degree which is said to be the total amount of anthropogenic global warming so far.

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  • "Some of the goodness, a degree of innocence, the possibility of creating a peaceful community, the beloved community, " he said.

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  • But the near simultaneous release of "The Pregnant Widow" and "Hitch 22" offers a new, 360-degree view of a literary and intellectual friendship.

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  • The joints in its fingers, thumb and wrist provide 24 degrees of freedom (a degree of freedom is the ability of one part of a system to move independently of the others in a particular way, as a ship may yaw, pitch or roll).

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  • Yet Hunt's "Valentine Rescuing Sylvia From Proteus" (after Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona") attains a high degree of Romantic beauty while offering a record of the painstaking historic realism that characterized Victorian Shakespeare productions by Charles Kean and Henry Irving.

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  • Mr. Demers obtained a Bachelor of Physics degree in 1976 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1978, both from the University of Saskatchewan.

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  • The growth of internet use and the emergence of easy-to-use publishing tools could well be the best thing that has happened to journalism since radio and then television offered new ways to reach people, but that requires a certain degree of modesty and a great willingness to learn on the part of a profession that is not noted for either attribute.

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  • French artist Pascal-Michel Dubois, who is based in Nelson, won the printmaking prize for Meteor III, a digital photo montage 360 degree panorama of a tree which seems to float in the air.

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  • Ms. Burns earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

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  • But with this difference: The Nadimpallis own the stocks directly and get a degree of customization and a sense of control not available to mutual fund owners.

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  • And that includes if not a four-year degree, a bachelor of arts degree, then a two-year degree from a community college or vocational training through a community college.

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  • He has a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University and a master of science degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Born in Upstate New York, Mr. Botticelli holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Siena College and a Master of Education degree from St.

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  • He calls the past year in Ukraine a year of wasted opportunities because the authorities, he believes, failed to make use of a tremendous degree of trust that Ukrainians had put in them to go ahead with a lot of badly needed and keenly awaited reforms.

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  • Even under a good scenario where you get federal financing, and you see a merger between two of the three entities and a preservation of a lot of models and a preservation of the design staffs to some degree, and a preservation of some of the dealer network.

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  • That small difference grows considerably when you take into account that a community-college degree is a fraction of the cost of a bachelor's degree and that these students enter the workforce two years earlier.

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  • Like skiing, it requires a certain degree of mastery, a countervailing ability to contend with the panic and reassert a measure of stability.

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  • "Compared to last year's meeting, there is a higher degree of engagement and a real wish to work in a collaborative spirit, " he said.

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  • With his left hand useless, he struggled slowly back to his team-mates in their vehicles, already aware that "the situation had suddenly, unexpectedly and with a high degree of frustration reached a situation where that hand wasn't going to be any good for -40C let along -80".

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  • Degrees are divided into minutes (sixtieths of a degree) and seconds (sixtieths of a minute) of arc, so that there are 3, 600 seconds of arc, or arcseconds, in one degree.

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  • In addition to mastery of traditional calligraphy, the art of engraving requires a high degree of virtuosity, since the artist works on a tiny surface area where every curve, every thickness of line counts.

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  • He earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a master of arts degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.

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  • What, then, prevents Afghanistan from living happily ever after, with a generous dose of aid and a degree of international protection in the form of the International Security Assistance Force, which at present comprises about 4, 500 soldiers from 18 countries?

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  • There is even some evidence of a degree of internal dispute within the Taliban on how to proceed.

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  • This makes news of a degree of agreement on July 2nd in talks between the two more remarkable.

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