In British comedy, the painful class dividers of real life are neutralized and exposed.

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What protections will they have against being thrown into front-line infantry units as organizational dividers soften and expectations change?

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Nevertheless, he soon grew fond of the building, if only because he was able to tear down several room dividers.

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The statue depicts the inventor with a model of the Camborne locomotive under one arm and a pair of dividers in the other.

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The arena floor is lined with cots covered in hospital linens, and dividers separate them into departments for pediatrics, intensive care and dialysis.

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But the dining room is now streamlined rather than dowdy, with large-scale contemporary art and dramatically lit wine racks serving as room dividers.

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An oblong crystal the size of a cigarette packet was next to a pair of dividers - suggesting it was part of the navigational equipment.

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Rollhaus eventually scrapped the cumbersome water bumper -- which only worked for collisions up to 20mph -- in favor of cushioning stationary objects like lane dividers.

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Greg Hassell, of Bellaire, eight miles southwest of Houston, said people with power or supplies were helping those without -- a spirit perhaps aided by the storm literally removing some dividers.

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As a boy he made a workshop in his parents' cellar, mapping out dovetails with dividers while other boys played football, and he courted his future wife with the history of tables, chairs and cupboards.

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In fact, the whole resort is quite simplistic in design, if you look past its gravity-defying guest room wings: basic wooden slats are placed in straight or diagonal stripes, poured concrete provides dividers between the expansive living areas and dining room, every piece of furniture or pillow is locally made by hand, and there are no televisions just acres of glass overlooking the seal-grey sea and the ever-changing weather.

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