The lady takes the strap around her forehead, derides his weakness and plunges off into the bush, singing.

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Moreover, he derides as "pseudo science" the battery of chemical and other tests restorers use to determine what art works originally looked like.

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Mr. Tenet savages the staffer from my office who presented that critique, although elsewhere he sanctimoniously derides "despicable" political attacks on hard-working professionals.

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What this latest gambit illustrates is that SpaceX engages in the same kinds of bureaucratic maneuvers that it derides traditional launch providers for pursuing.

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Less an anti-modernist than a sensual conservative, Rohmer derides bureaucracy, presents an exemplary domesticated romance, exalts charming traditions, and expounds, in comic form, his techno-utopia.

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Aboulafia derides the exaggerated sales expectations that companies have for the systems, noting that his consultancy estimates the value of world unmanned aircraft output today at only 2.5 percent of the amount for manned aircraft, and forecasts it will remain below five percent in 2020.

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