• The chilling effect is already evident in the drying up of discounted branded goods reaching retailers.

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  • Over a two-year experiment, we saw that there was a change in the soil structure as a result of a wetting and drying of the soil in clay-rich soils, and that can increase the amount of structure and hence storage of water.

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  • Several fields were already brown, drying in the sun, but others were still green.

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  • To keep their voices from drying out in the desert, the couple equipped the house with a humidification system.

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  • Or, as his Haitian patients aptly put it, medicine without food is like washing one's hands and drying them in the dirt.

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  • Not only have the special forces got more work to do, but the pool of potential recruits in the regular army has been drying up.

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  • With private capital flows from rich countries to developing countries drying up in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, the World Bank's role in fighting the spread of poverty has been reinforced.

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  • With 70 required off 48 balls, Baugh hit back-to-back boundaries off Mathews and together with Nikita Miller kept the Windies in the hunt for a while, but with boundaries drying up the task appeared increasingly difficult.

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  • Water pollution, soil erosion, deforestation and desertification in the north, where rivers are drying up, have contributed to an estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949.

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  • It looks like the fantasy countryside on a fruit crate, but this one comes alive with pungent smells--a scent of apple flowers in the spring dawn, scythed hay, piles of cow dung drying for fuel on top of the walls (my first thought: climbing cows?).

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  • But the fall in the oil price means that this is drying up.

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  • Old timers laze away the hot days playing with grandkids and tending to tasks like drying fish and preserving salted duck egg yolks in the sun.

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  • Boarding for migrant laborers is usually free--often a spot on the farmer's veranda or in a shed with fertilizers or on a rooftop, next to the drying cotton.

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  • He worried more than most about liquidity risk, the danger of cash-flows and funding drying up (which many financiers ignored at their peril in the last boom).

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  • However in the last decade, the continent has been drying up.

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  • From a pre-race downpour of rain on the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, to the early exit of veteran David Coulthard and the effects of a drying track -- this race had it all.

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  • Silica gel is put through a carefully controlled drying process that turns the liquid in the gel into gas.

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  • Recent climate-vegetation models suggest that excessive cerrado clearance could lead to the drying up and loss of rainforest in south Amazonia.

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  • But the drying up of financing for housing purchases and construction has led to a drying up of housing transactions in Spain.

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  • Lipman said Rosenthal wanted to write the story of Best "coming up against himself in a drying-out clinic".

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  • Using a fast drying spray will help you get out the door in half the time.

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  • In his October column, Nasibu asserted that global warming is drying up the African continent, causing expanding deserts and reduced crop production.

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  • The beans will then be stored in a cool dry container to prevent further drying ahead of being roasted and ground.

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  • It contained a dose of morphine for breakthrough pain or shortness of breath, Ativan for anxiety attacks, Compazine for nausea, Haldol for delirium, Tylenol for fever, and atropine for drying up the upper-airway rattle that people can get in their final hours.

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  • Now, the rediscovery of Belgium's hidden train treasures comes at an opportune moment because enthusiasts in the East are awakening to their own heritage, and supplies of their steam engines are drying up.

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  • As it happens, the coffee-like stains that he and his colleagues had been trying to remove with fast-drying solvents was actually the solution to his problem, since they remained in contact with each other as they dried and preserved conductivity, but left about 95 percent of the light through the holes in the center, thereby making the screen itself almost fully transparent.

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  • When you hear the word "mummy, " you might think of the ancient Egyptians who preserved their rulers by drying out their bodies and wrapping them in bandages treated with special chemicals.

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  • The formula in 4 Hour Protection hasn't been studied to see how it performs after drying on skin for several hours, says Don Muir, executive vice president of MicroArmor Inc. of Willoughby, Ohio, which makes the product for Angel Dough.

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  • Tilton's empire, built on the backs of issuing successive CLOs, is in trouble partly because her easy access to funding is drying up.

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  • In 1931 American chemical engineer Samuel Kistler invented the lightest known solid--an aerogel--by drying a form of silicon dioxide (a raw material for glass) under intense pressure and high temperature.

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