OK, so here I am in my kitchen and I'm holding a piece of oil shale in my hand.
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And the Fed is holding the piece of paper labeled U.S. Treasury bond.
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Horsup works in northern hairy nosed wombat conservation, which at the time involved holding a piece of wombat excrement between his index finger and thumb.
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For example, we found that a simple task that intervenes while you are holding a piece of information will degrade your ability to remember it.
Yet some believe that Ecuador is holding a priceless piece of the Amazon to ransom.
We were left holding a useless piece of paper, and it's difficult to enforce a contract there.
Then, split your IRA, with one piece holding just the amount needed to produce your desired annual payout.
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Ultimate Holding Company's piece has been described as "exploring the literary legacy of this international author, her fascination with flight and early gliding and the story of the Colditz Cock, an escape glider built by British prisoners of war, " by the spokesman.
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In choppy markets, with little visibility on future growth in a macro sense, it is worth remembering that many portfolio managers would have to sell at least a piece of a current holding in order to buy a less-proven business in an IPO.
The image of Photo 51 is tiny - just a few centimetres across - and holding the glass plate in my hands felt like handling a piece of history.
And Keane almost brought the hosts level with a sublime piece of skill, controlling Robinson's long punt and holding off two defenders only to see his left-foot shot palmed away.
By holding a magnetic coil over somebody's skull, a researcher can affect the activity of the piece of cortex beneath, while causing no pain to the subject.
One resulting theory is that these brain areas are involved in holding particular parts of a song, such as the melody, in the mind while the rest of the piece of music plays on, Abrams said.
At that depth, a key piece of equipment is the blowout preventer, which weighs up to 300 tons and caps the well, holding back ultrapressurized oil deep in the Earth.
At that depth, a key piece of equipment is the blowout preventer, which weighs up to 300 tons and caps the well, holding back ultrapressurized (15, 000 pounds per square inch) oil deep in the Earth.
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