Prior to the project we were told Dallas was too hot and lacked the culture to support a pedestrian environment.

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In our star-obsessed, sound bite culture, hot looks, reality show appearances, stop-bys on Oprah or Saturday Night Live and zinger tweets seem to qualify people for higher office.

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Their new employee handbook is the hot topic among corporate-culture watchers.

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Mutual funds and equity-linked products will be the hot products of tomorrow, as the equity culture spreads through Germany and across Europe.

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Ed Vaizey, who stood in for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, got into hot water when he told MPs Britain "is bigger" than Morocco.

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The minister is reported to have said the concept of workers labouring under the hot sun is not part of the religion or culture of the UAE.

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Similarly hot springs are good for the skin and for tapping into local culture.

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Hot Topic, in the midst of restructuring its merchandise strategy to appeal to a younger and more pop-culture-oriented market, also missed expectations, reporting a sales increase of 0.4%, under the 1.7% estimate.

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And most of all, maybe he gave teen-agers a culture of their own -- songs to dance to, hairstyles and clothes to copy, visions of hot rods to drive.

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