Shortly after it opened in 2005, businessmen and suburbanites started travelling to the city to join the locals in a perpetual line to sample the pulled pork, brisket, ribs and excellent craft beer selection.

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The authors thus base their absolute poverty line on the 15 countries in their sample below this threshold.

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In validation, especially if you have a sample product in hand, the temptation to cross the line from asking to selling is almost irresistible.

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Every week at its warehouse in Menlo Park, California some 10, 000 sheets of stamps, tens of thousands of posters and 20, 000 T shirts--almost every shirt unique and distinct from all the others--roll off the presses, sparkling with freshly printed images of cute kids, Disney characters, landscape shots and catchy tag lines (sample:"Not everything's flat in Lubbock, "reads the chest-high line on one).

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We liked the function that let us hear just one line at a time, allowing for pauses for speaking practice and to go over vocabulary lists and sample sentences.

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An analysis of the effect of hurricanes on a sample of retail, energy, home building and insurance stocks shows that shares within those industries have behaved in line with the traditional strategies that were again apparent by today's market action.

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