Ms Estemirova and her two-year-old daughter lived in a half-ruined flat in Grozny.
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Once you plunge in you find sections that alternate between slow streams where you can beach yourself against a flat half-submerged rock, and fast currents of waterslide fun.
However, O'Gara kicked Ireland into the lead after 10 minutes and the fly-half's flat pass to a charging Andrew Trimble six minutes later helped set up the game's opening try - although it looked a shade forward.
That was when the city authorities, in a bid to attract drivers of private cars off the road, slashed the ticket prices on the subway -- by more than half in some cases -- and introduced a flat fare of 2 Yuan (30 U.S. cents) with unlimited transfers.
Worthington agreed to buy half of its annual flat-rolled steel from Rouge for seven years.
Merkel at least half-heartedly ran as a reformer, even nominating a flat-tax proponent as her shadow finance minister.
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We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.
Colleges currently charge a flat-rate fee about half that figure which is paid upfront.
China's steel production rose 15% year on year in November after flat-lining in the first half of the year.
Earlier this month, Pernod Ricard - the second largest distiller of Scotch whisky - reported flat global sales for the second half of 2012.
Surrounded by the Pioneer Mountains, Divide was nestled in a flat-backed valley sprinkled with sagebrush and half-burnt two-by-fours, a reminder of when people actually used to live here.
In the past six months, flat-screen plasma televisions have accounted for nearly half of all TVs sold around the world.
So although some may be talking about the possibility of the economy going into a triple-dip recession, that will ignore the fact that the economy has been basically flat for about two-and-a-half years.
Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
Books sales are flat, discount super-centers like Wal-Mart have gobbled up half the best sellers and no one touches Amazon online.
Hydroforming uses water pressure (up to 15, 000 pounds per square inch) to force the flat steel against a one-sided tool, achieving the same result for half the cost.
"The level of housing transaction is well under half the level it was back in 2007 and 2008, so, really we have seen a flat-lining period, " McGrath said.
Revenue from audio products is down 13% and sales of video gear and TV sets are flat, pulling down overall profit margins--and total profits--by more than half in the past two years.
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