Turkish coffee, which is served in small cups where the grounds settle at the bottom, is very thick, dark, strong and sweet.

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While still among the elite top-five shoo-ins for Best Picture (the others being Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Lining Playbook, and Les Miserables), I think this picture needs strong showings in the early awards season to make a comeback and really challenge Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty at this point.

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Just a day before the official announcement of the Academy Award nominees, all signs pointed toward a Best Picture race between Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty, with Argo a strong third ready to exploit any voting-splitting between those other two films.

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And we should tell them that if they'll be strong and do the disciplined hard things they have to do to reform their country, their economy and get through this dark night that we'll stick with them.

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We round off the visit tasting a couple of barrel-aged beers, the 2008 edition of 25 Dodici (25th December, their Christmas beer) and two barrels of Sedici Gradi (Sixteen Degrees, their strong, dark barley wine).

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Despite uncertainty in world financial markets, business travel has made a strong recovery from the dark days of 2008-2009 when companies drastically cut travel budgets and forbade travel to meetings and conventions.

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"Ford Madox Ford was very witty and dry and the humor comes out of a quite dark place, while Tom has a very strong sense of humor that's more rooted in intellectual wordplay, " she says.

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And yet, his long-term perspective provided a strong moral framework, a context to judge how dark a stain was compared to the one he sought to erase.

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