• And when many might have succumbed to the pressure of their peers to take an easier path, less fraught with conflict and confrontation, she kept walking straight along the only path she saw could create the changes Britain so needed.

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  • Scientists at the University of Lund, Sweden, "found that dung beetles can transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky, but lose the ability under overcast conditions".

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  • Tony Martin's Salute Him ran on well for third, but favourite Stone Of Scone faded tamely along the straight.

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  • It was a straight old housing bubble helped along by an expansion of securitisation.

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  • And somewhere along the line, the straight talk express lost some wheels and now he is in favor of extending Bush tax cuts that went to some of the wealthiest Americans who don't need them and we're not even asking for them.

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  • For the time being, this is straight up RandD, though it appears to be farther along than we may have thought.

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  • As an alien robot attempting to master the ways of New Yorkers, Murphy is expectably uproarious, but more than half of his screen time is given over to his straight-man role as the captain, who, along with the rest of his crew, undergoes an emotional awakening upon contact with the joyful irrationality of life on earth.

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  • One possibility is that the jet streams that normally hit the west coast straight on will instead swing up into Alaska and dive down the coast, bringing along cold arctic winds with it.

    CNN: La Nina spawns extreme weather

  • With no pace in the wicket, and just a bit of swing and seam, Johnson and Ben Hilfenhaus bowled too straight and struggled to find the right length, allowing Strauss and Alastair Cook to tick along smoothly enough.

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  • Now we were going along a multilane highway, with other cars alongside us, and I kept my eyes staring straight ahead, fearing the laughter and crude comments that the sight of the two of us was no doubt prompting in the cars around us.

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