This type of first quarter melt-up is not without precedent, as last year we had a similar scenario over that time-frame.

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The melt-up into equities will continue as long as investor cash exits bond funds and U.S. Treasuries, and flow into equity mutual funds.

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Thermite is a substance that can literally melt steel and is made up of iron oxide and aluminium.

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Sooner or later, something will break, burn up, or melt down.

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Accelerators can now be cranked up to energy levels where these forces melt into one another.

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"The melt water went down into the crevasses and filled them up, " Dr Monaghan said.

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The more you pile up snow, the longer it takes to melt.

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Vast ice sheets there are the King Kong of the Atlantic, says Overpeck, tied up in ice for now but starting to melt and come apart.

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They said that by using stereolithography, their printer could offer "layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with" the existing technique used by budget printers, which melt plastic and squeeze it through a nozzle to build up each layer of an object.

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But to save room for them, you have to stop eating the quintessential melt in your mouth, loaded with olives bread, from Boulangerie Lagache up the road.

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As the snows melt in the French Alps, a network of via ferratas (climbing routes) opens up.

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