Indeed, the financial and organizational history behind the Heisman Trophy is just as open to debate as the award itself has been since it was first handed out in New York City at the height of the Depression in 1935.

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There were still pay phones working in New Orleans during the height of the storm when all other communication was out.

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The performance of those six auto-bots marks a new height in humanless feats: Though Stanford's autonomous Touareg "Stanley" won a 132-mile unmanned sprint across the Mojave Desert in 2005, that event's bots merely had to stay on the road.

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In 1928 he was elected governor of New York and in 1932, at the height of America's economic crisis, he was elected president.

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At the very least, there is a growing chance that a record rally in corporate debt that began at the height of the credit crisis in 2008 may be entering a new, uncertain phase.

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Or the DODOcase, which he says single-handedly saved a 50-year-old book-binding company in San Francisco and allowed them to add 10 new jobs during the height of the recession.

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In addition, computers are faster and forecasters today have new tools in their arsenal, such as software that helps them predict the height of ocean waves and the interval between waves.

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TourWrist CEO Charles Armstrong is so confident that Apple will be doubling the number of pixels in the height and width of its next tablet, his team is already preparing a new version of its app.

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Washington has surpassed New York in downtown office rents, entirely due to the artificial restriction on supply that is created by the height limit.

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