Before the commercial Hadoop arena (which got going in earnest only a year ago) got off its feet.

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But even if a such a city-wide tech plan got off its feet, it would need to fight hard to beat the trend and not go to waste.

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Gas prices spiked on short supply, and Sempra, struggling to keep U.S. power plants supplied with gas, cut off its 75 million cubic feet a day of gas deliveries to Rosarito.

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It has twelve-foot-tall tires, and its cab sits twenty-one feet off the ground.

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As it made its approach, the biplane was about 75 feet off the ground and about 300 feet from touchdown.

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He got the auto industry back on its feet, and today new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM.

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He got the auto industry back on its feet, and today new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM. (Applause.) Yes, indeed.

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The gibbon used a similar motion to create a two footed take off, but as its name suggests, the ape placed foot feet on the ground before leaping into the air.

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He got the auto industry back on its feet again, and today new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

He got the auto industry back on its feet -- (applause) -- and today, new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event