But this year's event may also show whether some innovative management thinking holds water.
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It remains to be seen whether Georgia's threat to take the case to the Supreme Court holds water.
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If the probability of success is high and can be proven, the idea holds water and we have a problem.
Even the comparison between the cheerfully practical pirates and the creative chaos unleashed by the spread of the internet holds water.
However, in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, this argument holds no water whatsoever.
It is said that audiences today are too sophisticated, but that evolutionary assumption holds less water than Stan Laurel's trousers.
Condemning Western governments for neglecting the needs of developing nations holds little water if Asian countries ignore their own marginalized and disenfranchised citizens.
Nietzel says the most common place the clues about "where warm waters halt" first lead people is to Eagle Nest Lake, about 100 miles north of Santa Fe, because it has a dam that holds back warm water and is known for its brown trout.
The interior of Mars holds vast reservoirs of water, with some spots apparently as wet as Earth's innards, scientists say.
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Earth's mantle, for comparison, holds roughly 50 to 300 ppm water, researchers said.
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It's why Coca-Cola, which holds 13 percent of the bottled water market compared with PepsiCo's 10 percent, doesn't seem to think bottled water will ever overtake soda.
The results come as environment secretary David Miliband holds a drought summit with regulators, water firms and consumer groups.
That is the challenge facing the Sanitation and Water for All partnership when it holds its biennial meeting in April, a meeting I am honored to have been asked to participate in.
The same holds true for treatments that combine hot and cold water, which have a kind of yin and yang influence on the body.
He does however rely on microscopes to study samples and has been known to carry an L-shaped divining rod, which he holds over his head until it points him toward water.
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And ultimately it is Uzbekistan that holds the key to regional co-operation, whether over water, trade or borders.
She is a fixture of the open-water swimming scene of New York City and currently holds the title of fastest woman to swim around Manhattan at 5 hours, 44 minutes.
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory or Hawc, high on a Mexican plain, now holds the record for the highest-energy light it can capture.
Given that Brazil holds approximately one-third of the world's biodiversity and 20% of its fresh water in the Amazon rainforest, it is also becoming a leader in fields ranging from combating deforestation (which has dropped by 80% since 2004) to plant genetics.
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