Their speeches ring very hollow to 4, 000 FAA employees who are furloughed.

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The NYPD also maintains a "Ring of Steel, " a network of 4, 000 sophisticated security cameras that feed information into a central monitoring system to detect questionable or unlawful activity.

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At 4 am, when the wake-up bells ring each morning, the tall trees smell like earth and fog creeps around the elegant Burmese-style pagodas and gazebos, making their statues of mythical lions and other creatures look as though they have just emerged from another world.

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Dell is throwing its business-friendly hat into the ring with the 14.1-inch D630 and the 15.4-inch D830, according to some leaked info Laptoping got ahold of.

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In North America, Laki has been blamed for the starvation of Inuit populations from severe cold in northwestern Alaska, based on Inuit oral history as well as tree-ring density data investigated by Gordon Jacoby and others, who estimated that conditions were about 4 degrees Celsius colder than the mean.

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Eyes alert, ears pointed, the 4-year-old champion officially named Protocol's Veni Vidi Vici barked in the ring and then jumped on Mullins when the judge pointed to her.

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Built in the 1970s, Derby's inner ring road is used by almost 60, 000 vehicles on an average weekday and at peak times more than 4, 000 cars, buses and lorries use the section of road every hour.

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