• That would seem to make it clearly taller than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, which is about 30 meters tall, excluding its large base, and the 34.2-meter-high Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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  • Work on Les Beaucamps High School has begun and the education minister has said the next priority is La Mare de Carteret High School, the remaining undeveloped secondary school.

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  • Education minister Robert Sillars brought the motion as his department is expected to put forward plans to develop La Mare de Carteret High School.

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  • One of the vice principals at Cavelier-De LaSalle High School in Montreal overheard two students speaking between classes shortly after the incident, school board representative Jean-Michel Nahas said.

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  • Cadaques is a good half hour or more carsick-inducing drive over the high hills of Cap de Creus national park with lay-bys for taking photos or calm nervous stomachs.

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  • But some cars, like the Lexus LS600h L, are such a high-tech tours de force that they have fussy features that confer questionable consumer benefits, alongside easy-to-use features, with obvious benefits.

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  • Regarding calls that President Obama should open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help placate high gasoline prices, de Margerie says that with Saudi Arabia still capable of replacing the 1 million barrels per day of Libyan oil there is no defensible argument to open the SPR.

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  • RainStor achieves its high compressions rates because it de-dupes data at a granular level, Bantleman said.

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  • Bishop Loughlin High was run by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, stern-looking men in black robes.

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  • The high-profile event celebrated De Grisogono's 20th anniversary, and was attended by international movie stars like Sharon Stone and Ornella Muti.

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  • De Klerk cites high unemployment as a grinding problem, with a rate of 50 percent among blacks between ages 18 and 34.

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  • In Brazil, for example, high end brokers in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo are seeing less interest from abroad and a pullback of domestic wealth.

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  • "High school did not become de rigueur until about 30 years ago, " notes Patricia Albjerg Graham, education historian at Harvard University and author of Schooling America: How The Public Schools Meet The Nation's Changing Needs (Oxford University Press, 2005).

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  • Piper, 29, also gained acclaim for ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl, in which she played the high-class London escort Belle de Jour.

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  • Environmental concerns have become important for most businesses but in the high tech world they have become de rigeur because of the staggering amount of power and computing resources that are used.

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  • Flash-forward several years, however, and we're to the point where many won't even consider less than a 4-inch screen, and the once-unfathomable 5-inch display is quickly becoming the de facto standard for high-end models.

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  • The US economy is still undergoing a gradual process of de-leveraging from the high debt burdens of the 2000s that exploded when the housing bubble popped.

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  • In essence De La Rue is a high-quality contract manufacturer.

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  • De Beers Group reports that high prices and strong demand in India, China, the Middle East and, surprisingly, the U.S. has resulted in a record for rough diamond sales.

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  • Windows on the World had a wonderful Director of Wine, Kevin Zraly, who I had first met when he worked near my hometown at the De Puy Canal House in High Falls, NY.

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  • There isn't a high risk, there has been no significant de-leveraging since the 1990's.

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  • In Rio de Janeiro the vacancy rate for high-end office space is 3.4% (versus 7.2% in Manhattan).

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  • After high school, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1942, where she came to the attention of Mr. Balanchine.

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  • Just a few hundred metres east of Artesania El Gran Condor is the entrance to the Cascadas de Peguche, an 18m-high waterfall that plunges out of the thick forest.

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  • It was signed by some of France's most high-profile chief executives, including Christophe de Margerie of oil firm Total, Frederic Oudea of bank Societe Generale, and Air France's Jean-Cyril Spinetta.

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  • This debate has crystallized around the defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong, whose chest-high tackle on Spain's Xabi Alonso in South Africa was the iconic image of the country's World Cup final defeat.

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  • What is absolutely fascinating is that if you dig a little deeper and look at the structural failures that are really holding back the Brazilian economy they are very (almost shockingly) similar to those that plague Russia: high taxes, insufficient investment, inefficient government spending, over-reliance on consumer spending, excessive government red-tape, unreliable courts, poor transport infrastructure, rent-seeking, persistent inflation, high interest rates, and (potential) de-industrialization.

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  • "You can fly from Shanghai to Frankfurt or from New York to Charles de Gaulle and then connect to the high-speed train, " says Pepy.

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  • "De Canio is fully aware of the high standards and objectives that the new management has set for the future of the club, " said chairman Gianni Paladini.

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