• None of this will amount to a hill of beans except to swing sentiment and incite panic.

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  • From the Hill of Tara, you can see the Hill of Slane across the valley on a clear day.

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  • For the government, Lord Hill of Oareford replied that parenting skills are better learned through practical experience.

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  • Leader of the Lords Lord Hill of Oareford insisted the government had already shown restraint on new appointments.

    BBC: House of Lords: Peers warn against influx of new members

  • There's even talk on Capitol Hill of introducing legislation to prohibit any attack on Iran without congressional approval.

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  • Jim Hill of the California Department of Conservation says the state uses the money from bottles and cans that aren't returned.

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  • Every year on Holy Saturday (the Saturday before Easter), the local parish priest lights a fire on the Hill of Slane in Patrick's honour.

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  • It is no accident that Grange, and Hill of Grace which is probably the second most expensive Australian wine are made in tiny quantities.

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  • At the time, the Hill of Tara, located 43km north of Dublin in fertile County Meath, was the ceremonial capital of the High Kings.

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  • But Patrick defied convention, lighting a paschal (Easter) fire on the Hill of Slane, near today's village of Slane, located about 16km northeast of Tara.

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  • Fort Soledad, atop the southern hill of the bay, is reconstructed in parts and offers the best view over Umatac and the rugged western shoreline.

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  • That was fascinating, said Prof Chris Hill of Ohio State University, because the number was right in the region where the instability problem became relevant.

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  • President Bush accused Democrats on Capitol Hill of playing partisan politics and said he would not allow his top aides to testify under oath about the firings.

    NPR: Congress, White House Clash on Hearing Rules

  • Mark Hill of Deloitte, a consulting firm, reckons that in 1996 a farmer received 57% of the price of a pint of his milk sold in a store.

    ECONOMIST: Supermarket competition

  • Alex Hill of AEG Europe, owners of the O2, said April's four-day showcase had been "hugely successful" and that the entertainment company was "thrilled" to be continuing its association.

    BBC: Sundance London to return in 2013 and 2014

  • The White House will see a silver lining in today's grim GDP figures, if they help to remind the negotiators on Capitol Hill of the fragility of the US recovery.

    BBC: US recovery gets a downgrade

  • The defense appropriations bill is coming up, and there is talk on Capitol Hill of attaching Senator Akaka's native Hawaiian government reorganization act, which as you know is very controversial.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • These days, Mr. Botham's cellar is filled with the sort of award-winning bottles that have put Australia on the wine map: Penfolds, Hill of Grace by Henschke, Merrill's Henley Shiraz and Moss Wood.

    WSJ: Will Lyons on Wine: From Big Wins to Big Wines

  • Around 90% of firms have so far reported and, according to Chuck Hill of First Call, a research firm, second-quarter earnings are likely to be a paltry 3.8% higher than a year earlier.

    ECONOMIST: A wobble down Wall Street

  • Once the NORAD Command Post notified General Hill of the attack indicated by DSP, he had roughly three to five minutes to mull things over and notify the President and Prime Minister whether we were at war.

    FORBES: Of Day-Trading And Thermonuclear War

  • Education minister Lord Hill of Oareford said the bill was intended "to strengthen the autonomy of schools and colleges, to back heads and teachers as they go about their jobs, and to move away from top-down prescription".

    BBC: Education Bill clears the House of Lords

  • Lord Strathclyde will be replaced by education minister Lord Hill of Oareford, who was most recently in the news after Mr Cameron apparently missed his attempt to resign during a meeting in the most recent cabinet reshuffle.

    BBC: Lord Strathclyde resigns from cabinet

  • It was as though his entire future had been laid out in front of him on the direct route he took to school as an adolescent, 1.9 miles up the hill of Massachusetts Avenue from the Fairfax Hotel to St.

    CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'

  • Scores of employees sued the two companies in the wake of the financial crisis, accusing Citi and McGraw Hill of violating a duty to disclose potential red flags for future performance by the stocks to the employees investing in them.

    FORBES: The Supreme Court Refuses to Hear 401(k) Cases Against Citigroup and McGraw-Hill

  • "What we are doing now with our trucks and our food is bypassing the cities and taking them straight to nongovernmental organizations, who will distribute the food to people in the rural areas, " said Heather Hill of the World Food Program.

    CNN: U.N. refugee agency pushes Iran to open border

  • Lord Hill of Oareford, speaking for the government, pointed to an announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather in the House of Commons that parenting classes for up to 50, 000 parents would be trialled for two years in three local authorities from next summer.

    BBC: Sex education under fire in the Lords

  • Perched up high on the hill of Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement, it has a panoramic view of Paris, encompassing the grey roofs of the city skyline as well as the Tour Montparnasse, Les Invalides and the Eiffel Tower, lined up perfectly from left to right along the horizon.

    BBC: Parisian bars with a view

  • The weathered, silvery stone ruins scattered across the grassy, 158m-high Hill of Slane today include a foundational outline of a church, a round tower and a monastery associated with St Erc, and a later Norman motte and bailey on the hill's western side, built by Archembald Fleming, who came to Ireland with Henry II in 1171.

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  • Ms. TONI BLACKMAN (Musician): I think my music is really in the vein of a Lauryn Hill, of a Mos Def, of a Talib Kweli, of the Roots, of artists who are part of hip-hop culture and really committed not only to being on stage and being in the limelight but really committed to the art form and to the tradition of the oral tradition.

    NPR: Hip Hop Takes on Diplomatic Role with State Department

  • Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from the top of Penn's Hill above the family farm.

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