Heel Hop's emphasis on shifting weight to the balls of the feet, Ms. Kline said, helped her feel more stable.

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In the United States, both Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have been shifting their weight in the direction of enterprise solutions and away from selling PC clients like handfuls of gumdrops.

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And he continued his gradual shifting of the justification for the war on Iraq - giving as much weight to regime change and the possible link between Saddam Hussein's WMD and terror groups as he gave to the threat from Iraq.

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Drivers swung out of their cabs, the men with rakes or shovels stood around shifting their weight from one foot to the other in discomfort.

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Sorger took a page from his days as a pilot and applied a weight and balance equation to the design, shifting a larger percentage of the load toward the rear wheel, which improved both handling and stability dramatically.

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The weight of cardboard boxes, she says, could easily be cut by shifting from recycled cardboard to virgin fibre, "which is stronger, so boxes can be made lighter and thinner".

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They had taken turns rowing in pairs until they were out of immediate sight of the town and the road, and when they stopped, the boat rocked slightly under their shifting weight, the water almost even with the rim.

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The two placed a pair of gloves down on center ice, and Mr. Martin executed tight, figure-eight turns while shifting weight between inside and outer skates.

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