In Seaside Heights, a family-vacation spot, large sections of the town's boardwalk splintered into the waves, leaving little more than timbers strewn along the beach.
If you spot one large enough to take (adults only, and no females with egg sacs attached), you try to spear it with a single thrust before it senses your presence and skitters away.
One bright spot is that large corporations are getting more active in startup investing.
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Outside, a sunny patio beneath a large mural is the perfect spot for dining al fresco in the warmer months.
Class A is the sweet spot for most large property-management firms and it is also where green buildings are beginning to shape the market.
"The large screen market is a sweet spot right now for the TV industry, " said Ben Arnold, Director of Industry Analysis at The NPD Group.
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Thus, state capitals with large universities are in the sweet spot.
The distinctive diamond-shape cabinets provide high rigidity for tight and deep bass reproduction, and cater for a very wide sweet-spot, filling even large rooms with music from these impressive compact speakers.
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Now I do not believe that ExxonMobil buys a very large portion of their supply from the spot market and that the vast majority of their oil comes from their own fields or long term contracts.
Beam and Brown-Foreman are in a sweet spot in that they are large enough to be taken seriously in a cutthroat market yet small enough to still be considered as possible acquisitions by a Diageo or Pernod Ricard.
Rather than monitor transactions on a website, Detica typically works for large financial institutions overseeing their everyday business to spot fraudsters and con artists.
If you spot a Welsh MP poring over a large map today, do not be alarmed.
The most famous spring is Cleopatra's Bath, which has crystal-clear natural spring water that gurgles up into a large stone pool, and is a popular bathing spot for locals.
On a day that the Devils (9-3-4, 22 points) could have taken over sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division, they had to settle for securing just one point Monday and sharing the division's top spot with the Pittsburgh Penguins, in large part because of Bishop.
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Institutions that have large exposures to unallocated gold could find themselves in a spot if enough of their customers decided it was a good time to cash in their certificates.
The allegations have turned attention to the practice of spot betting and spread betting in Asia, where large amounts of money are bet on a ball-by-ball basis.
After looking at a large number of charts over the years, I can often spot those that appear to have a major trend that they are now retracing.
The mining of data on how different banknotes move through the economy would make it easy to spot suspicious transactions for example, a large deposit of notes that had been out of circulation for a long time.
Swann agreed the number looked large but presenting news programmes had to be done on the spot - unlike newspaper journalism, which he doubted would show up much better if sub-editors and printers accompanied journalists to the conference.
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But if Kent State loses, or simply fails to move up to 16, then the final spot will be up for grabs by an at-large team out of the ACC, Big Ten or Big 12.
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Many FCS schools rely on the payouts to fund large portions of annual athletic spending and will be in a very difficult spot without the well-paid on-field sacrifices.
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The NATO-led peacekeeping force said it was distributing a "wanted" poster to its soldiers to help them spot and capture the 51 suspected war criminals indicted and at large.
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If I can spot this as someone whose full time job tends to eat large chunks of his life outside of the regular grind, you should damn well better catch it as the eduction blogger.
The best example of its claimed "55 mile-per-hour user interface" (unusable by Sammy Hagar) is a large traffic alert that warns you as you're approaching a trouble spot and presents the option to select a new route.
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The theory is that these large, pictorial networks mirror the way our brains work, making it easier to spot connections and insert new ideas.
After a year in which some memorable on-field action was overshadowed by the Pakistan spot-fixing scandal, it will be an unalloyed joy for a very large number of cricket fans.
Large providers of care homes in England are to have their financial records regularly scrutinised in future to spot potential business problems.
Again, the text scaling is off and the Twitter logo unnecessarily large, but the idea of a unique wOS for watches as opposed to an iOS lite seems spot on.
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