He could speak like a prophet or an oracle, endowing buildings with anthropomorphic qualities.

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Through the Muslim World League, they began endowing chairs for scholars and funding departments.

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If 80% of human communication is non-verbal, endowing robots with those skills is going to be key.

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This can be devilishly difficult when so much corporate energy is invested in endowing every operating unit with apples-to-apples comparability.

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In the past month, Genzyme has gotten Food and Drug Administration clearance for two drugs and its stock has jumped 18%, endowing the Cambridge, Mass.

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So how about endowing a prize, like Alfred Nobel?

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The sweep of the continent into the sea creates a biomass buffet at the tip of the Louisiana boot, endowing the area with natural gifts in and near the water, both living and inert.

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So perhaps it is not surprising that the hopes of Stephen Harper, Canada's Conservative prime minister, of endowing his minority government with a parliamentary majority at a general election on October 14th may end up being dashed.

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Rhodes -- who eventually left most of his fortune to Oxford University, endowing the Rhodes scholarship -- did everything within his power to keep the Nbedele and Shona disenfranchised, denying them the right to vote in 1892 and limiting the amount of land they could own in 1894.

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