Simple, solid, geometric design, middle-weight features and a few dashes of colorful spice to make it easier on the eye.

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And as Joe Calzaghe's 'cut man' for 12 years, he patched-up the southpaw throughout his undefeated multiple-belt reign as super middle-weight world champion.

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The Forbes Best Buy rankings aim somewhere down the middle: We give equal weight to a measure of risk-adjusted return and to that element of the hurdle that is publicly reported, the expense ratio.

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The M500 is right about in the middle of the pack for size and weight.

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They slid off their slippers at the door, and, their stiff bodies swaying momentarily beneath the weight, placed the speakers, each taller than Father, in the middle of the hall.

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While he tried to qualify this somewhat at the press conference with the caveat "when they are no longer needed, " he conveyed an impression of U.S. transience and determination to disengage from the Middle East that can only encourage its allies to hedge their bets by giving new weight to relations with Moscow.

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So as far as the Middle East and Central Asia are concerned, a primary lesson of the Cold War relates to the relative weight the US can securely place in its alliance with Israel on the one hand, and its alliance with the Saudis on the other.

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