To compile our list of cities where home prices are still getting hammered, we teamed up with Local Market Monitor and dug down into data for more than 300 metro areas (metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget) across the United States.

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Ladies and gentleman, as you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening... a recording for Blue Note records... when you applaud for the different passages, your hands go right out over the records there, so when they play them over and over, throughout over the country, you may be some place and say, well, uh, that's my hand on those records there, that I dug down at Birdland...

NPR: 'Blue Note Records, The Biography'

Crews dug a trench three feet wide down to bedrock.

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Workers live and sleep in the same low-slung sheds, stepping down into 3-foot-deep trenches dug into the earthen floors to house the looms.

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The skis dug into the lip of the slope, bringing the 450-pound snowmobile crashing down on him.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Helmeted officers decked out in tan fatigues, camouflage and body armor, many carrying long guns, rumbled in rented cargo trucks to and from the property where 65-year-old Jim Lee Dykes and his young captive were hunkered down in a roughly 6-by-8-foot hand-dug bunker with only one small hatch for an entryway.

WSJ: Military tactics, arms, helped rescue Ala. hostage

Helmeted officers decked out in tan fatigues, camouflage and body armor, many carrying long guns, rumbled in rented cargo trucks to and from the property in southeastern Alabama where 65-year-old Jim Lee Dykes and his young captive were hunkered down in a roughly 6-by-8-foot hand-dug bunker with only one small hatch for an entryway.

WSJ: Military tactics, arms, helped rescue Ala. hostage

But Cyril merely observed that his sister must have gone off her nut, and he and Robert dug with spades while Anthea sat on the edge of the hole, jumping up and down with hotness and anxiety.

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