And there's been some talk of not having a formal conference committee on Capitol Hill, to just sort of do this informally, probably behind closed doors.

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These are the sort of ideas Ms Hill would like to see employed as the redevelopment of the Thames Gateway area gathers pace.

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The list, which serves parents in the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill and environs, is a sort of ask-it-all for thousands of members.

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He has described it as the legislative equivalent for his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill as a box canyon, meaning the sort of naturally occurring, dead-ending geological formation used by Indians and desperados in the Wild West to trap and snare their prey.

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Mr. CHRISTOPHER HILL (Assistant Secretary of State): The sort of fundamental issues I think we're okay on.

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For example, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, the so-called Representative Number One in the plea, is chairman of the House Administration Committee, sort of the mayor of the House side of Capitol Hill.

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He started to sing again, but too fast, and Mother pounded the keys and tramped on the pedals, as though she were at the wheel of some sort of vehicle, a big wooden bus that she was driving down a steep hill with her feet and hands.

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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.

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