• That is much like flying experimental planes over crowded cities to test their airworthiness.

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  • It is often assumed that increased investments were used to absorb the costs associated with the abolition of primary school fees, which dramatically increased enrolment but also led to over-crowded classrooms in many African countries.

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  • It is a horrific statistic that hints at - among many factors - the widening wealth gap in a country where the poor are so often obliged to squeeze into speeding and over-crowded minibuses for long commutes.

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  • Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.

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  • The draft law also raises the question of how the government will be able to finance development in the poor and over-crowded heartland of Java if it loses a large chunk of its income to the outlying islands.

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  • While the tech minds of California struggle to rescue people from the threat of a ten degree increase in global temperatures over the next 50 years, the tech minds of Israel struggle to protect us from the threat of a million degree increase in temperature in a crowded city over a nanosecond.

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  • Competing narratives play out nightly over Egypt's increasingly crowded airwaves.

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  • Ferries, fishing boats, private launches and container ships jostle for space in these crowded waterways, presided over by flocks of screeching seagulls that supply another of the city's signature sounds.

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  • The debate over deficits grew in shrillness and crowded out discussion of the deeper problems, such as excessive government spending, overregulation, and the abuse of the powers of the Federal Reserve System.

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  • Meanwhile, women carrying puffy Macy's bags stuffed with Ralph Lauren pillows made their way through crowded aisles, inadvertently knocking over displays and jostling their fellow shoppers.

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  • Mr Targowski said Dr Craig Cunningham was asked to observe Declan's post-mortem examination because he could see over the heads of others in the crowded operating theatre.

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  • Tanned little boys darted past me on bicycles, wearing mesh baseball caps propped high on their heads, in mimicry of the fathers and uncles who crowded around workbenches, bent over vehicles, their belts buckled off center to avoid scratching the paint.

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  • Before the collapse, Rana was little known outside of the few blocks of his tiny empire, a grid of poorly paved streets in the crowded industrial suburb of Savar, built up over the past decade or so around hundreds of garment factories.

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  • In Portage County, home to Windham, dozens of researchers on Chesapeake's payroll have crowded the recorder's office since September, poring over land records.

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  • For the past four weeks lawyers for Bank of America and MBIA Inc. have been sparring in a crowded second-floor courtroom in downtown New York City over whether state insurance regulators should have let MBIA split itself in half in back 2009, separating its business of insuring mortgage-backed securities from its business of insuring municipal bonds.

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  • On weekends and school holidays the waves fill with locals honing their skills, but the scene is lighthearted, friendly and is spread out over such a big space that it feels fun and social rather than crowded.

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  • However, this online rental market became increasingly crowded with rival services, and now the popularity of streaming films over the internet is growing fast.

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  • Crowded stores everywhere, except JCP, with blaring post-Christmas sales all over the place.

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