• Just upstream from modern day Brazzaville city are the huge "cataracts" - rocks which, for millenia, have stopped river boats passing this point.

    BBC: Congo Brazzaville's hidden war

  • Unless job growth picks up substantially, which looks less likely with each passing economic data point, a recession starting from 9% unemployment with house prices still falling will be far more painful than the one we are still experiencing.

    FORBES: Recessionary Differentiations

  • Brown, who speaks constantly about this bill in his neck-and-neck race for re-election against consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, said the whole point of passing the law was to demonstrate that members of Congress weren't held to a different standard.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • At this point Lin began passing the reins to his sons.

    FORBES: Arabia-Asia: Gulf Royal's Long-Distance Takeout

  • Funding the Defense Department and passing an energy bill at this point is up in the air.

    NPR: Republicans Protest as Recess Nears in Congress

  • Isaksson was in action again two minutes later as United started to produce flashes of their trademark passing game, denying Rooney at point-blank range from Giggs' cross.

    BBC: Wayne Rooney celebrates putting Man Utd ahead in the derby

  • Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.

    ECONOMIST: Quantum computers

  • It may seem to be somewhat of a political oddity, but at this point the main barrier to passing a Democrat-sponsored bill to raise the minimum wage seems to be--of all people--Democrats.

    FORBES: Minimum Wage Oddities

  • Scolnick had at one point been excoriated by analysts for passing up the hypertension medicine, which Bristol had touted as a blockbuster.

    FORBES: Genomics Revolution Actually Happens

  • She told of how a group of killer whales that lives near Vancouver, passing between waters controlled (from a human point of view) by Canada and the United States, have acquired legal protection even though the species as a whole is not endangered.

    ECONOMIST: A declaration of the rights of cetaceans

  • It defused the Dortmund pressure with crisp passing and more energy than it showed at any point in the first leg.

    WSJ: Champions League: Dortmund Holds On to Advance to Final

  • In contrast, Rooney has completed 1, 634 of his 2, 208 attempted passes, or 74%, in his England career and his ability to act as a focal point for the team means England's passing improves dramatically when he's in the lineup.

    WSJ: High Hopes on Rooney's Return

  • But, as I point out in my Boing Boing piece, actually passing legislation is a whole new ball game that will require us to learn from what worked in SOPA and to strategically build upon that strategy.

    FORBES: Discussing a Post-SOPA Strategy - Cellphone Unlocking

  • At one point, the Spice Route stretched from India to Rome, passing through Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Ethiopia and what was then Judea.

    BBC: Israel's mysterious ��Grand Canyon��

  • At one point Democratic state senators even fled Wisconsin in an attempt to prevent the measure from passing, escaping the reach of Mr Walker's state troopers.

    ECONOMIST: Wisconsin��s recall vote

  • But instead of passing on that cut in full to its SVR customers, Abbey reduced its interest rate by just half a percentage point.

    BBC: abbey

  • Instead of joining the previous sample chapter, from the point of view of Theon Greyjoy, this new chapter, about Arianne Martell (a character mentioned in passing in A Storm of Swords but introduced in A Feast for Crows), replaces it altogether.

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