They were getting deeper into the Christmas spirit, dancing, wearing bizarre outfits, throwing tinselly gold dust over each other.
Highly leveraged private equity buyers have left real estate investment trusts in the dust over the past three years, but the REITs are now in a strong cash position, operating with usually no more than 50% leverage and with access to relatively cheap money.
Sassicaia and the luxury-wine boom sprinkled a pinch of fairy dust over the Maremma, a place whose outside appeal was previously confined to the tourists who swarm on the coast in July and August, and the enclaves of wealthy Florentines and Romans who keep beach houses and hunting cabins there (and keep to themselves).
Analysis of the dust material over the weekend indicated that it does not contain material that is seriously harmful to health.
Maybe our cowboys need more dust all over them or something.
Although this is a small sample, it suggests that man-made dust particles predominate over naturally occurring ones.
The dust-up over the New York Times' Tesla Model S review may have left no real winners, but that doesn't preclude at least trying to reach the truth.
Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.
Enter Urie as Alex More, a struggling actor from Wisconsin, who applies and gets the job without initially knowing he's signed up to dust and watch over Streisand's endless amounts of expensive stuff.
Also weighing on Obama and his aides as he decides how to proceed is the unpleasant memory of previous dust-ups over contraception, including an election-year spat over an element of Obama's health care overhaul law that required most employers to cover birth control free of charge to female workers as a preventive service.
But while the bank accounts might be full, the trophy cabinet continues to gather dust as frustration grows over the lack of progress made on the pitch.
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Planners have asked developer Cory Wheelabrator to clarify concerns over noise, dust, smell, air pollution and health at the site near King's Lynn.
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"I had to remove all the dust and scratches that had accumulated over that time, " he said.
The conventional explanation for this arrangement is that the glass fell to Earth first, then giant waves caused by the impact covered them with sediment, then iridium-containing dust settled out of the atmosphere over the course of a few weeks and formed the clay.
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From the data gathered by Curiosity's meteorological station, scientists think dust-devils may even have run over the mobile laboratory.
But economists caution that while over the next year the dust may settle in these 10 spots, buyers should be prepared for future swings.
People were initially able to walk on and pick up the "seeds" but this was soon banned after concerns over the amount of ceramic dust created.
They don't know for sure, but apparently a mini tornado passed over the rover blowing all the dust away.
The dust had settled but the debris was all over the place.
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When the dust settled, Intel and Micro- soft stood over the old giants.
Sitting in open backs of pick-up trucks, they have scarves pulled up over their faces against the clouds of dust whipping around them.
When the dust settled, and this binge of irresponsibility was over, several of the world's oldest and largest financial institutions had collapsed, or were on the verge of doing so.
Forty eight hours on from the moment it became clear that the Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones had chosen a holiday in France over attending the Royal Opening and the dust is far from settling.
When the dust settled, Goldman posted its first quarterly loss in over a decade and Wall Street as a whole had its worst quarter since the depths of the financial crisis.
It increasingly looks like Verizon Communications will be victorious in its bid to take over MCI , leaving rival Qwest Communications in the dust after two months of wrestling.
In one high-profile dust-up, he has been battling with two former underlings over whether in 2008 he knew the full implications of authorizing a large, secret settlement in an early phone-hacking lawsuit.
Worse, travelers wasted 427 million aggregated hours fretting over the purchases of pointless doodads, knickknacks, tchotchkes, gewgaws and dust gatherers.
The property was dispersed after being taken by the army, including 1, 100 works of art which were handed over to Austria and never officially accounted for and a suitcase of gold dust which disappeared.
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