• "Pull-ad" clauses are provisions in a contract between an advertiser and a publication that give the advertiser wiggle room to remove its ads from an issue at the last minute or move them elsewhere in the publication so they don't run alongside news of major catastrophes, or even against pages containing stories about itself.

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  • After several hours of this, learning the difference between a four-day-old horse and a cow carcass - the colour, smell, and muscle tone - the kind lady who showed us round, led us to a warm room where we could remove our hair nets and overalls and take comfort in a bowl of vegetable soup.

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  • Joe Tortorella of Robert Silman Associates, the engineer hired to remove the stacks from under the Rose Reading Room while it's still in use, has compared his task to cutting off the legs of a table while a banquet is taking place.

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  • They could, in theory, remove these additional papers from a school's store room and no-one would know.

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  • Khan told CNN that Malala called him last month from her hospital room in England and asked the school to remove her name.

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  • This will explicitly state that teachers can physically remove disruptive pupils from class or prevent them from leaving the room to maintain discipline.

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  • When the stapler hit the wall, I had been in the operating room for more than four hours, struggling to remove a diseased segment of colon from someone I'll call Mr. Baker, a 330-pound middle-aged man.

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  • Remove the pork from the fridge and let stand for 30 minutes at room temperature before cooking.

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  • These include central station alarms to alert police when a break-in is occurring, a plan to remove valuables to a nearby fine-art storage facility or a specially constructed safe room in one's home during a hurricane or tornado, and climate controls that ensure levels of heat, cooling and humidity appropriate to works of art.

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  • Plastic mattress covers help keep dander out of beds, and room air cleaners equipped with high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters can remove dander from the air.

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  • If it's after hours, the on-call physician may suggest you go to the emergency room for an evaluation and removal, especially if you've tried to remove the contact several times or are experiencing eye pain or redness.

    CNN: How can I safely remove a stuck contact lens?

  • For that we must turn to the notorious saga of the bad, bad girl who told me in hushed tones that, while she was staying in a room with two beds at the Setai in Miami, she proceeded to carefully remove the Christian Fischbacher satin sheets from the unused bed, then meticulously remake it so as not to alert housekeeping.

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