In the U.S. a lack of job growth and poor home sales data confirm that the recent strength in the home market was a function of the U.S. stimulus.

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The intransigence was both a function of his strength and a contributor to it.

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The ability to move beyond your core capabilities is a function of the strength of your following and the ability to logically and emotionally connect the new ventures with your life coaching practice.

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As evidence, they cite a 12-week scheme using weights that helped women 64 and above to double their leg strength and a walking program that reversed decades of declining lung function in a group in their seventies.

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Inside the lodges, trekkers rest up ahead of their final climb, conserving their strength and yet still burning energy just trying to breathe and function at such an altitude -- at 4, 800m, oxygen levels are only about 55% of those at sea level.

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