• You see, Wopat-Moreau was found alive, thank god, after spending four days in a swamp 480 feet off a relatively busy, notoriously dangerous parkway.

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  • But it, like every other low-cost operator, is only too aware of the fate that befell an American airline, ValuJet, which went out of business after one of its planes crashed in a Florida swamp in May 1996 killing all 110 people on board.

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  • Any analysis of labour-market trends soon gets bogged down in a statistical swamp.

    ECONOMIST: Manufacturing employment

  • It crashed in a mangrove swamp at midnight on Saturday, 12 miles south-east of Douala, where it had taken off.

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  • Occasionally a dead fish would be found in a shallow swamp, and that fish we cooked or sometimes ate raw.

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  • But Deering wanted the house near the bay, and the team put the villa in a mangrove swamp right on the water.

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  • And the first scene does suggest that we're starting at the very beginning: In a primordial swamp of sorts, brightly costumed frogmen bounce around and swing on a mound-shaped structure.

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  • Manpower was the real problem, and in particular the difficulty of persuading engineers and skilled tradesmen to leave the United States to dig a ditch in a fetid tropical swamp.

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  • Nevertheless, it's disappointing that a movie so intent on immersing us in the moment should sink into such a swamp of back story and then -- in the sorry pop-psych tradition of "Ordinary People" -- lay the blame squarely on Mom.

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  • Remember the early 1980s, when the US economy was floundering in the swamp of a double-dip recession, with unemployment touching 10.5 percent?

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  • More than a few so-called cherries have proven to be held together with chewing gum or rubber bands, or were found floating in some swamp after a hurricane.

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  • Forty-eight years ago, King wrote part of his eulogy in Saunders' wooden boat deep in the Bimini mangroves, a winding swamp of thick bushes and trees where 100 species of fish and marine life fill the murky waters.

    CNN: A beach break in Bimini

  • "Choosing Carlsberg or Heineken would mean bringing in global brands that could swamp Kingfisher, and SAB has started establishing a presence in India, which could at some point threaten United Breweries, " one banker said.

    BBC: Kingfisher logo

  • British researchers suggested that a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands might, one day, cause a tidal wave to swamp America's east coast.

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  • In such cases, plaintiff lawyers typically swamp a company with claims, then negotiate a settlement that steers most of the bankruptcy proceeds to themselves at the expense of other creditors, including future asbestos victims.

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  • Every week in a tiny, humid room (nicknamed The Swamp) at the nonprofit Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Kappe and his colleagues slit open between 2, 000 and 3, 000 mosquitoes to collect the microscopic parasites that cause malaria.

    FORBES: Chutzpah Science

  • But if differences linger, and the careful schedule that provides for elections in 2009 and a referendum on southern independence in 2011 begins to slip much further, Sudan could find itself sliding back into a swamp deeper even than Darfur's.

    ECONOMIST: Peace in the south, war in the west and poverty amid riches

  • Once the motor was in place and the robot chip was programmed, the mounted bird was put in the wild along with a discreet sound system playing swamp sparrow calls to attract others.

    BBC: 'Robosparrow' created from dead bird

  • The way that the house welcomed the indoors in, the adaptation of Italian garden principles to a flat Florida swamp and the siting of the house next to Biscayne Bay -- all of this, combined with classical house and garden design, resulted in a work of genius.

    WSJ: An American Renaissance Gem

  • In 2010 he built Rana Plaza on land that had once been a swamp.

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  • Next to the park is a stretch of peat-swamp forest, mostly degraded but rich in carbon.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • The situation came to a head in October as already inundated natural waterways combined with high tides to swamp the Thai capital Bangkok.

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  • That foreign banks will swamp Asia and buy up all distressed banks in fire sales was all a false alarm.

    CNN: PLUS

  • Italian gardens usually have hillside terraces, but Suarez and Chalfin transformed the low, flat swamp into the best Italian-style garden in America, with only a small amount of fill.

    WSJ: An American Renaissance Gem

  • This is why the hidden costs of single-payer health care would easily swamp any minuscule difference in administrative costs and profits there might be between a private health insurance plan and a tax-financed public plan.

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  • Scientists at Duke University in North Carolina worked with engineering students and a taxidermist to operate the wings of a deceased swamp sparrow.

    BBC: 'Robosparrow' created from dead bird

  • This means that carbon which comes from a plant, or a swamp-dwelling bacterium that is digesting that plant, will have less 13C in it than did the carbon in the atmosphere from which the plant drew its sustenance.

    ECONOMIST: Methane and climate change

  • The winner in the British wildlife category is another UK entrant, Andy Newman, chosen for his photograph of a swamp spider carrying her egg-sac.

    BBC: Winning wildlife pictures go on show

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