He weighed the reptile on a hand scale, pulled out a clipboard -- protected with plastic against the drizzling rain -- and made a series of notes.
He weighed the fish right away on a hand-held scale called a Boga Grip.
The only thing he possibly loved more was the inch-scale hand-built railway that ran round his garden, which with huffing and panting and articulated pistons moved much like an ideal cartoon character: everything functional, everything with a purpose.
Trained assessors then graded the patterns of lines and skin coarseness on the hand impressions on a scale of one to six.
Middle-market firms, on the other hand, may have to scale back their operations or risk losing business to lower-cost competitors.
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The stair panels in the vestibule are marvels of abstract rhythms, while their railings, as Mr. Pierson also noted, are sensitively shaped to the scale of the human hand.
But the struggle simply to reach the starting blocks of negotiation is also a reminder of the scale of the task in hand.
The basic yarn is that of the human hand working on an almost supernaturally tiny scale, performing miraculous feats of dexterity that result in what, at its best, seems like a universe in miniature.
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On the other hand environmental radiation from WiFi is new in scale in public spaces and in the home.
The difference is that Schwab plans to do it on a grander scale, offering more selection, hand-holding and distribution through its investment advisers.
Given the stakes at hand in a world with no rookie wage scale, you would think that teams would become more judicious over time.
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The more freely prices may move and the more certain the scale, the better the invisible hand can conduct a harmonious improvement in living standards for all.
Microsoft on the other hand dominates the market through a mix of inertia, scale and long-lasting relationships with businesses and resellers.
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Explaining his decision to hand McCormick the maximum possible sentence, the judge focused on the scale of the fraud and its potentially deadly consequences.
The problem today is that United States must go cap in hand for funding to those same governments whose thumbs are on the scale.
On the other hand, people who were at the very top of the income scale -- and I'm now included in that category -- we've seen all the benefits of economic growth when things were going well.
Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.
Whaaat? 0.5 on the Richter scale is, as Andrew Orlowski pointed out, about the same amount of energy as a hand grenade going off.
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Our nation deserves better choices than, on one hand, accepting the catastrophic damage caused by a failure like Lehman Brothers, or on the other hand being forced to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into an institution like AIG to protect the economy against that scale of damage.
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