• Sometimes they had prayed together over the phone, in a kind of half code in case anybody accidentally picked up the extension.

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  • "In the first half we kind of held him under control and then he knocked down a jumper and he was aggressive, " Dallas forward Elton Brand said.

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  • "In the second half, we kind of started slacking and wasn't doing what we were supposed to be doing, staying patient on offense and rebounding, " Melvin said.

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  • He said scientists have identified 95% of asteroids more than a half-mile in diameter -- the kind that threaten human existence if they strike Earth, like the six-mile-wide one believed to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago -- and found none on a collision course with the planet.

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  • "Fewer than half of the local authorities in Wales actually provide any kind of open access play provision in the summer, " he said.

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  • About half the rockets suffer some kind of catastrophic failure in the air, usually when a nose cone fails to separate properly or the parachute doesn't deploy.

    FORBES: "Let's Punch A Hole In the Sky"

  • Billed as the first of its kind in the UK in more than half a century, Australia will bring together around 180 paintings, photographs and prints.

    BBC: Royal Academy to host Australian art exhibition

  • In fact, the largest portion of jobs in our labor market (nearly half) require some kind of technical training beyond a high school diploma, and these "middle-skill" jobs are experiencing the greatest shortages of skilled workers.

    CNN: Commentary: Jobs going begging in some fields

  • You can make a good case for repealing the estate tax altogether, but as long as it's on the books it's kind of nutty to let people cut it in half.

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  • There was a kind of half-warrior, half-pacifist hermeneutics in play, during which we spent our time reacting to what philosopher Michel Serres called "the signal fires and foghorns" of the adversary.

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  • I'm a former radio talk show host who has worked in a half dozen markets, and I know that doing that kind of work teaches you that there is such a thing as talking for radio.

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  • In Billund Lego is eliminating half the 4, 000 jobs--the kind of herring-throw that you'd think would devastate Billund, since only 10, 000 people live in or near the town.

    FORBES: Copenhagen Capitalism

  • Specifically, the survey results show that almost half (47 percent) of brand conversations mention media of some kind, with the internet in front (15 percent), followed by TV (13 percent), newspapers (5 percent), magazines (4 percent), radio (2 percent) and posters (1.5 percent).

    FORBES: RIP Word of Mouth?

  • President GEORGE W. BUSH: Do you realize that economists say that as much as half of our nation's economic growth in the last half-century is directly due to technological progress, fueled by research and development, the kind of research and development you can do right here?

    NPR: Bush Promotes Competitiveness Initiative

  • If you are a politician and are any kind of a wit at all - even half of one - you can expect to be lionised in the press by bored political correspondents who will guffaw at your bon mots because the rest of what passes for gaggery generally strikes a bum note.

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  • Workers in rural areas, who still make up about half the total labour force, never had much coverage of any kind anyway.

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  • "It's a big difference going from shinny hockey where it's kind of half-paced, a lot of passing, without the scrambles around the net to playing in a real game, " LaBarbera said.

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