To the extent the Republicans are increasingly signaling a determination to run next Fall on a platform silent on national security matters, they may be right, at least in the short run.

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He scoured the world for the perfect battery technology (a combination of lightweight and long charging), added a solar panel for those without plug-in electricity recharge options, leveraged local university engineering talent to make it all work, and delivered a truly silent generator that can run a full size refrigerator for over a day if the power goes down.

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The long fight over the Bush domestic antiterror effort was a case study in partisan extremism run amok in Washington, even as a silent majority of Americans across the political spectrum wanted such protections.

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Over the past few months, we have observed, through the borrowings at the ECB, a growing silent run on European banks in the at-risk countries (Spain, Italy).

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Then when Corporan connected for his first of the year four pitches later, a two-run shot that right fielder Brennan Boesch barely moved on, a fan in a nearly silent Yankee Stadium shouted "mercy rule, " eliciting laughter.

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Before each convoy run, he assembles his men for a few moments of silent prayer.

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The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo, " for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.

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The Castro began as a venue for silent movies, and after that featured first-run movies for many years until diversifying into festivals and other events.

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It features more than 1, 400 images from horror, sci-fi, comedy, silent, sound, and black-and-white monster movies that run a gamut of categorization: Vampires, Werewolves, Atomic Mutations, Human Monsters, and Scary Older Ladies.

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