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  • The family soon afterward moved from Baltimore across the country to the Bellevue area, where Habib began his new challenge of trying to live a normal life without sight.

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  • But Mr Laurila also winces at the common Manhattan sight of pavement booksellers, their tables stacked with new books and their right to sell without licence or interference protected by the first amendment.

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  • Dr. Robert Greenberg, Second Sight's chief executive, told the New York Times that eventually, the company would like to implant the electrodes directly into the brain's cortex to treat blindness from all causes.

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  • The recognition of these benefits, and of the price of failure, has brought the launch of a new trade round, which a year ago seemed distant, within sight.

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  • On a cold December evening in 1822, inspired by the sight of dozens of snow-covered chimneys sprouting from new dwellings along Broadway in New York's Greenwich Village, Clement C.

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  • Some have so lost sight of the ends in pursuing the means that each new government sanction or consumer-boycott-induced withdrawal of a foreign investor is celebrated as a triumph in itself.

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  • The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives.

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  • When new taxes are imposed and escalated with no measurable impact or end in sight, consumers know that the tax is nonsense.

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  • You might expect even cynical Europeans to be impressed by the sight of ordinary Americans tramping through the snow in Iowa and New Hampshire to hear politicians speak.

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  • The fear for those living in Saudi Arabia may be that this is only the beginning of a new phase in a growing threat that appears to have no end in sight.

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  • "This new surgically implanted assistive device provides an option for patients who have lost their sight to RP -- for whom there have been no FDA-approved treatments, " said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, in a statement.

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  • It's estimated that 18 million new Chinese workers will enter the mainland work force annually, with no end in sight.

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  • Then, from around a corner appeared an incongruous sight: wedged at the end of the gravel road was a gleaming new train station.

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  • The sight of Scotland fans on the big screen inside Cardiff's tidy new stadium slumped in their seats, stony faced, arms folded whilst calling for the manager's head was as conclusive as it gets.

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  • Among the watchers was Vikki Bailey, 28, on a sight-seeing trip to London from Canterbury with three friends, who included the capital's new mayor on their list.

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  • Could it be that, with the end of her cornerstone TV show in sight, the all-media tycoon is looking for a way to demonstrate her dominance in a new corner of the digital realm?

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