• For one thing, it makes a glamorous case for the lately neglected powers of sufficiently adept drawing.

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  • That trend stopped during the 1990s, as the Clinton Administration mostly ignored the region for more glamorous priorities.

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  • However, as you work down the list of other safety features, though things cost less money and are increasingly effective, they require more and continuous management effort and are less glamorous for the bosses.

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  • This week, Shaun Spearmon, my Kotter International colleague, summarizes the less glamorous, but most realistic requirements for the best vice presidential pick.

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  • But will someone like Vijay Mallya, the flamboyant billionaire owner of Bangalore, be able to resist bidding for a player like Pietersen, the most glamorous and marketable player not currently involved in the IPL?

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  • That means always looking for the next thing--and for ways to top its more glamorous rivals.

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  • With its grand casino, fabulous weather almost year round and famous music festival, which inspired the Eurovision Song Contest, San Remo rivalled Cannes as a glamorous beach destination for starlets and millionaires in the 1950s and 1960s.

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  • These names conjure images of country clubs and glamorous lifestyles, yet, for the most part, are cars that were targeted at buyers of more modest means.

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  • But as a child, I loved it, not just for Carson, but also for the version of New York it signified: glamorous, witty, grown-up and, especially, nocturnal (even after I knew it was taped around sundown).

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  • Forget for a minute the amazing hubris of a rich, glamorous CEO, with a nursery specially built next to her office, ordering less well-compensated parents to trudge back to the office, leaving their less important offspring in daycare or in the hands of nannies.

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  • Although not as sexy or glamorous as passenger cars, the numbers for heavy-duty trucks are no less impressive.

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  • There, he apprenticed under Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy, whose houses made glamorous dresses for women like Audrey Hepburn and the Duchess of Windsor.

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  • The most recent poll gave him just 4%, compared with 28% for the leading candidate, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a glamorous senator and daughter of a former president.

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  • Those who don't make the national pageants like the Miss India gala have to settle for other, less glamorous affairs, including scores of neighborhood beauty shows, intercollegiate contests and parade queen competitions.

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  • Travellers looking for a glamorous Hollywood nightlife experience in Los Angeles should head to the newly opened Emerson Theater for a glimpse of the debaucherous, decadent days of the Great Gatsby era.

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  • Brazilian soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. said Saturday that he will join FC Barcelona next month in a lucrative move that will see one of the game's most coveted players sign for one of its most glamorous teams.

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  • While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not-so-glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes.

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  • So while the fans and everyone else at the club are going to have to get used another humbling season visiting some of the less glamorous environs of rugby Gorvett does not plan on being there for too long.

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  • Mr Clegg's glamorous Spanish wife Miriam chose a suitably frugal High Street dress and jacket for the occasion.

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  • Understated but glamorous Broadway standby Orso is still one of the best tickets in town for excellent Italian food.

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  • His main rivals for the job are Rudolf Shuster, the government's candidate, and Magda Vasaryova, a glamorous former actress running as an independent.

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  • The app isn't particularly glamorous, but it meant the company saw the survey results several months earlier for the same cost, said Keith Maladra, vice president of consumer intelligence for General Growth.

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  • The paper says she "earns her crust" travelling up and down the country buying and eating pies in a hunt for the UK's best flavour - but points out that she remains slim and a "glamorous blonde".

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  • "People have biases towards species that are glamorous, " said Dr. Ernie Small, author of the study and taxonomist for Agriculture Canada.

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  • The less glamorous locales may not have as much homegrown science, but they make up for that with other attractions, like cheap land and easy access to the Interstate highway system.

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  • Thus, while coal mining may not be the most glamorous business to be in, it could prove to be a profitable one for those willing to get their hands a little dirty.

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  • As advertising bans begin to bite around the world, what better marketing coup could the tobacco firms hope for than to have their product associated with one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars?

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  • " For a moment around Diana's funeral, it seemed that this dutiful woman had lost ground to the glamorous "people's princess.

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  • As for Pixar, far from a glamorous beginning, Jobs gained control of it from George Lucas who, was at the time raising cash to pay for a divorce.

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