The lingering question, to which nobody seems to have a good answer, is why it took so long to find an object that ought to be fairly common.

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The object is to find real dollars in your everyday expenses by listing each expense and examining the possibility of savings.

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The chair, in response to some questions and complaints by the Democrats, and I must say I don't -- I find them with some substance to them, object to Mr. Schippers' remarks as a citizen.

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That means that an object under the stack - in the team's experiments, a block of wood about 10cm long - would not "hear" the sound, and any attempts to locate the object using sound waves would not find it.

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The danger here is that people whose real objection is to Mr Brown will find a high-minded quasi-constitutional pretext to object to his growing power.

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