Mr. Mathews and his designers lay onionskin tracing paper over the maps and brainstorm lifts, slopes and base areas, sketching ideas with pencils.

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Joe Sienkiewicz, a NOAA marine weather expert and a forecaster on duty in Boston during the 1991 storm, remembers having to lay maps and other paper documents all around him.

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Automakers, whose traditional business model is built around supplying cars to car dealers, might use a clean sheet of paper to lay out business models where they engage more directly with consumers and share in the multitrillion-dollar revenue stream associated with cars.

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Lay the fillets over the paper and roast them in a 300-degree oven for about 25 minutes.

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Last week the paper started to lay off 90 staff.

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He lay in bed going over a paper he had to deliver at a Health Protection conference the next day while Suzie sorted piles of clean laundry and put them away.

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Editor Paul McNamee said the revamped paper would feature an improved lay-out and beefed-up editorial content.

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This first paper in the series seeks to lay the foundations for the rest of the programme by examining both the current legal and constitutional arrangements for Scotland within the UK and some of the potential consequences of independence.

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And they lay out their case that this is so in a paper just published in Evolution and Human Behavior.

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