The pools store runoff water from the rickety, cumbersome system Tepco threw together after the accident, to cool Fukushima Daiichi's reactors.

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Instead of giving up, they threw together a simple website with a basic premise: if they could get at least 200 people to reserve the tees, then they would organize and coordinate the printing and ship directly to buyers.

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So in 1996 Swarovski threw seven top birders together with a team of Austrian optical engineers for an intensive three-day focus group in Newport, R.

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He and Jeff Hammerbacher, who was doing the same thing at Facebook, threw their lots in together, becoming early proponents of Hadoop, which everybody likes to say, but almost nobody groks.

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Russell Banks, 21 at the time, and Robert Laszewski, who was 20, were drinking together at the Rainbow and Dove on 25 October when Dean threw an accelerant at them, believed to be petrol.

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