The BeagleBone LCD Cape includes the option of choosing default standoffs or buying a set of piano-black aluminum stands.

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Business consultants in India blame such labor standoffs on what they call lack of transparency in retrenchment or layoff policies.

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Investors may also have become used to Washington brinkmanship, having seen last-minute deals brokered after a series of political standoffs.

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Gore, a bevy of 5-4 rulings broken down into ideological camps, and increasingly partisan confirmation standoffs over the past few decades have only cemented this transformation.

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Many of the turf battles and controversial standoffs that occurred in Congress during the weeks and days leading up the passage of Dodd-Frank can be expected to break out again.

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