The Oprah episode Huffhines participated in helped launch the neti pot into more than just a passing sinus blockage remedy.
We now know that oak seedlings rarely thrive under mature oaks (which rain caterpillars on them), so the oak climax was just a passing phase.
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Halloween-inspired attractions like haunts aren't just a passing fad.
Are e-readers just a passing fad?
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But Tom Rafferty of the Economist Intelligence Unit told the BBC the issue was unlikely to be just "a passing glitch", and said that such practices could pose technical and political challenges to Tencent because international users were accustomed to sharing information freely.
It was just a notion, passing through my mind, while I waited for the kettle to stop whistling.
The technology can make it sound as if a bird is flying around your head in a full circle, not just passing from one side of a room to the other.
And I also want to take a moment just to note the passing of William Friday, a man whose visionary leadership of this university system was an inspiration to all of us who believe that education is the key to a brighter future. (Applause.) Chancellor Friday was a courageous reformer who transformed North Carolina's public universities into a model for our country.
Less normal is how many Americans have come to think that the country is not just passing through a rough patch but is in long-term decline.
Asking new contacts for a job is just going to alienate them, whereas passing on a job lead is a good way to start a relationship.
You walk a 100 yards off the track, passing through a landscape that looks just like northern Nevada, when suddenly you find yourself face-to-face with a wildebeest, 500 springbok, or a giraffe.
Knowing that someone is so ill and not being able to give him just the minimal support of passing a phone message is quite remarkable in this day and time.
But with future telescopes, scientists say it may be possible to see past the blinding glare of the parent star to pick out just the faint light passing through a small world's atmosphere or even reflected off its surface.
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It was a poor shot from someone with such a distinguished career, ironically coming just after passing his 2, 500 Test runs landmark.
Clinton vetoed those reforms twice before the Republican Congress forced him to accept it by passing it a third time just before the election.
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With its pale yellow glow, "The Sisters" said early spring to me a time when the witchhazels' spidery blooms are just passing, forsythias are kicking in and daffodils are taking center stage.
If Google decides to stop passing all search information to websites, not just when a user is logged into Google, the industry will suffer.
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And a passing priest, Father Theo from Switzerland, paused just long enough under his umbrella to say that what the Pope had done took courage, and he had shown humility.
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The Massachusetts Board of Education, for example, fearing most students would flunk, has voted to set low passing scores--just above failing--for a new test students must take to graduate from high school.
He took a passing swipe at the Obama administration for its unilateral regulatory reforms announced just ahead of the Davos meeting, which, he said, had caught Europe unawares.
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To use that excess electricity (obviously, only excess when the wind is blowing just right, or the Sun shining) to electrolyse water by passing it through a fuel cell and then store the resultant hydrogen.
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"Before this no one knew if the basking sharks that visited Manx waters in summer were the same sharks coming back year after year or just sharks that were passing through on global travels - thanks to this MBSW research a picture is starting to emerge, " Mrs Hall added.
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As a bonus, squishy lake-edge sediments are just the things for recording the tracks of passing animals.
The passing of Professor Constantin Economides represents a loss to the international community, not just of a renowned expert but also of a dedicated humanist.
About 4km to the east, just outside of Las Galeras, I ventured off the tarmac roads and walked along a dirt track, passing both roaming horses and scooters carrying entire families.
The phenomenon has most likely always existed, but we just talk about it more because life seems to be passing us by more quickly and we want a buzzword to hold onto.
Nicole Westbrook, a culinary student who had just moved to Seattle from Albuquerque, New Mexico, was killed in late April by a bullet fired from a passing car.
But instead of passing on that cut in full to its SVR customers, Abbey reduced its interest rate by just half a percentage point.
However, we can look at conditions off in the distance and surmise whether what was just experienced was an isolated financial cold front passing through, or ongoing problems that have us in the eye of a storm.
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