• One year is like a few drops in a bucket unless there is something revolutionary to report.

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  • Remove from heat and add a few drops of lemon juice to prevent the sugar from recrystallizing.

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  • After pouring a few drops into whatever you're making, you can always dab a little on your wrists, too.

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  • In places where nurses are rare and doctors mythical, volunteers are trained to squeeze the few drops of vaccine into a baby's mouth.

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  • What I've described here are the first few drops of a storm that will overtake more than a few industries in the next ten years.

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  • What Americans and Europeans alike are now attempting to do is squeeze out the last few drops of risk, with results that are often counter-productive, because risk is simply transferred from one place to another.

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  • The first few drops hit the windshield of our rented 4X4 while we sat in the Dollar Rent A Car lot earlier that afternoon, waiting for the GPS to finally consummate its advances with a satellite.

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  • Many believe that when gods and demons fought over a pitcher of nectar, a few drops fell in the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar - the four places where the Kumbh festival has been held for centuries.

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  • They also argue this was not a bailout in the sense - I was thinking of a boat full of water - this bailed out - like it's like taking a few drops of water out of the boat.

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  • Dry water resembles a very fine powder (like icing sugar or flour) that has a slightly more liquid-like appearance when it flows, and if you squeeze some of it in your hand hard enough the powder combines to give you a few drops.

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  • It refused to devalue its merchandise and commands premium pricing in a category known for big discounts and price drops every few months.

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  • He notes that although a detectable tilt is caused when the temperature drops by a few degrees, that tilt is too small to explain the anomalies and, in any case, it would lag roughly 30 minutes behind the shadow (because it takes time for the ground to cool) while the experimental measurements show a change in g instantaneously during an eclipse.

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  • Sure enough the predicted range drops precipitously within a few miles as I wind through a redwood forest.

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  • They keep teams together longer (it's a fallacy that team productivity drops off after a few years), and they even move great teams together instead of picking off stars and moving them.

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  • The good news: Occupancy rates are no longer falling sharply and as just-released quarterly results show, leases that are up for renewal are now flat with prior contracts, much better than the nearly 10% drops seen in the past few years.

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  • May was a grim month for biotechnology stocks, with several biotech firms facing big drops in their share prices and few posting large gains.

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  • Jobs was transparent about the particular rate of reception problems with the iPhone 4 (it drops more calls, by a few, than its predecessor model, the 3GS), even as he deftly made the case that antenna issues are common to all smartphones.

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  • The spot price drops more than 20% over the next few days.

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  • Now 37, Oliver drops in on his half-brother a few times a year while scouring the globe for mega finance deals on which he can give advice as joint global head of UBS Investment Bank's Financial Institutions Group.

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  • Now 37, Oliver drops in on his half-brother a few times a year while scouring the globe for mega finance deals on which he can give advice as joint global head of UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) Investment Bank's Financial Institutions Group.

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  • Take an Underground train a few stops from the borough of Westminster, and life expectancy drops by 12 years.

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  • On the other hand, since lots of small drops have a collective surface area greater than a few large ones, they reflect much more light.

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  • Self-storage landlords were pinched by drops in demand during the recent recession but remained stable with few defaults.

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