• But while scientists have warned us about chemicals such as chlorinated Tris since the 1970s, they continue to be used in products all around us, including furniture, cribs, mattresses and high-chair cushions.

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  • The new Oz game comes with Bose surround sound and an attached high-backed chair.

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  • Sitting bolt upright on a nearby high-backed chair was the outgoing Perm, Sir Jon Shortridge.

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  • But a spat about how important readability is to high-class fiction - as the Booker chair Stella Remington discovered last year - will do.

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  • Kagame of Rwanda, whom he thanked for accepting to co-chair the High-Level Advocacy Group on the Millennium Development Goals, saying he looked forward to the first meeting of the Group, to be held in Madrid in mid-July.

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  • Other captain's chair sits high atop the Octopus, 413-foot yacht armed with 2 helicopters and a 60-foot submarine.

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  • The distinctive yoke-back chair, which stands 8 feet high, seemingly contradicts advice given to homeowners to avoid showy pieces that appeal to certain tastes.

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  • But the most fearsome of these fences isn't "The Chair, " a 5-foot-3 high hedge fronted by an open ditch, the sharp bend of the "Canal Turn, " or even the dreaded "Becher's Brook, " with its steep 6-foot-5 drop.

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  • "Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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  • To make matters worse, Eastwood asked for that chair just before going onstage, apparently with no one high-level enough nearby to ask him what he wanted it for.

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  • But the agreement - or carve-up, as the Tories see it - between Labour and Lib Dem GLA members to vote the former's Trevor Phillips and the latter's Sally (Baroness) Hamwee as alternating chair and deputy chair of the assembly will give the party more of a high-profile position.

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  • Barrett, meanwhile, got his own high-powered support from former President Bill Clinton, as well as Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.

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  • The chair of Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, Councillor Andrew Fender, said high-speed rail was "good news for the economy, not just for Greater Manchester but also the wider North".

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  • The trick for Mr Klima now will be to seize the limelight, chair a good-humoured summit, and so end the presidency on a high note.

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  • Arthur made the adjustment, and Hytner stepped away from his chair against the back wall to watch Jodi Prenger, as the cheeky, high-heeled Dolly, encounter Francis and his lecherous glances.

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