• It was already known that being "apple-shaped", as opposed to "pear-shaped", added to the risk of developing cardiovascular problems.

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  • It was designed as a graduated double row of rectangular-cut emeralds, extending a pear and circular-cut diamond fringe, joined by circular and pear-shaped diamond clusters to the circular-cut diamond double row backchain, mounted on platinum.

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  • ATR's big order from Kingfisher seems to have gone pear-shaped in recent weeks as the Indian airline's financial troubles have worsened.

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  • Among the highlights: one very big rock, a 51-carat, flawless pear-cut diamond mined in South Africa, that is brand-new to the market.

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  • The school specializes in Arabic instruments such as the kanoun, a triangular stringed instrument a little like a horizontal harp, and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument similar to a lute, and also teaches Western classical instruments and music theory.

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  • Anyway, the point is that when investors and companies lend to a bank and when they invest in them, they look at what would happen to that bank if all went pear-shaped and said bank got into a serious financial mess.

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  • The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.

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  • The head of the players union, with whom Dave Pear and other retirees have been - I think the fair word to use is battling - is Gene Upshaw, the former All Pro and Hall of Fame offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders.

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  • That allowed them to take into account the way the eyeball, which is actually more pear-shaped than spherical, drags the eye's lids and brows slightly when the gaze swivels.

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  • These are alternated by two similarly-set diamond flowerheads, each mounted with a brilliant-cut diamond weighing 2.02 and 2.01 cts. to the marquise-cut diamond petals, interspersed by connecting links of pear-shaped fancy vivid and fancy intense diamonds of yellow and orange hues and diamonds of foliate motif.

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  • Cover and cook over medium-low heat for 15 minutes, stirring from time to time, until the pear pieces are softened.

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