The White House apologised after a presidential jet accompanied by a fighter aircraft flew low and close to tall buildings, causing consternation in lower Manhattan , with some workers fleeing their offices.
You know, you have to be tall to be in the NBA. So, what they do is they take all the college seniors and foreign players and they give them two measurements - one in socks and one in sneakers.
But the difference between the modern prosperity we enjoy today, and the standard of living of caveman days, is entirely due to the savings and investment that provides the modern tools and equipment of today, from computerized steam shovels, to skyscraper tall cranes, to the desktop at work, to the laptop you take on business travel.
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Doors in the building were designed to be extra tall to accommodate the famously towering players.
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That category is for bridges that may have narrow lanes or shoulders, or spans that don't provide enough vertical clearance to let tall trucks pass, according to Washington's DOT.
Arne Sorenson of Marriott predicts that his typical employee, a diminutive Hispanic housekeeper with shaky English, will find it hard to say no to the tall, articulate union man who turns up and asks her to sign a card.
That is a tall order, I know, but Mr. Bernanke has a demonstrated ability to fill tall orders.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is set to stand tall in the Senate, and the Republican-dominated House of Representatives would prove hard to sway toward sweeping legislation.
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"The guard would need to be about 3 meters tall to carry the gun for those, " security analyst Zoran Kusovac wrote in an e-mail to CNN.
So it was not surprising that he was drawn to a tall, solitary classmate named Sayyid Imam al-Sharif.
However, at 5ft 8in, he is a different type of player to the tall Croat, being particularly noted for his speed.
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There has traditionally been a lot of opposition to more tall buildings cutting out the famous views of St Paul's Cathedral.
He then went on to tell tall tales about his wartime derring-do and about almost everything else that happened in his life.
More powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and faster than a speeding bullet is the dreaded buy-back.
And I wanted to look grown, you know, I want to wear tall high-heeled shoes, and fishtail gowns, and big long rhinestone earrings, you know.
What is clear is that for generation seven the iPod Nano moved back to the tall and think form it was famed for, and discontinued the square watch based Nano.
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Broad relished bowling with the new ball, nipping out Liam Davis and Michael Swart almost immediately for ducks, before Test batsman Marcus North (19) also departed to the tall Nottinghamshire seamer.
It takes you to a tall slit in the outermost building, where an offset door makes you turn right into an entry area, avoiding an immediate, direct full view of the interior.
Maybe so, but the people who are likely to be most disappointed are the additional golf pilgrims, most of whom want to go home to tell tall tales of conquering the famed Old Course.
Mr. Hanold owes his current job in computer operations to a colleague with a link to the Tall Club, and he now repays his good fortune by contacting members when he learns of openings in his industry.
To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
"One of the great tricks that they use is to tell reporters these tall tales to get it into print, " said Nickell, who authored a book, Psychic Sleuths, that takes an in-depth look at the claims of 10 crime-solving psychics.
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One of the only places on Earth to see them in their natural habitat, the wax palms in Cocora Valley can grow to 60m tall, and hundreds of them randomly dot the cleared grassland like floral pinwheels, towering above fields of grazing livestock.
The dilemma for Paris has been painful: to intervene - and be caricatured as a throw-back to the neo-colonialism of "la Francafrique" - or not to intervene, and see a first chance to stand tall on the African continent dwindle into the desert sands?
This time, he has an addition to his stable: a flying craft, with two enclosed rotors underneath, which allow it to dink around tall buildings and, presumably, to chop vegetables in the event that Alfred wants to make a pot-au-feu.
Alex Gidman and Chris Taylor were the other men to fall to leave Gloucestershire with a tall order to salvage something on day three.
Mr Magag is said to be 6ft 2in tall, of slim to medium build, with a beard, although police say it is possible he may try to change his appearance.
While Hollywood may seem to be a tall order for most music industry veterans, TV is shaping up to be more of an easier transition.
The robber is said to be 6ft tall (1.83m) and strongly built, speaking with a local accent which was said to be soft and not matching his size.
Apart from his obvious gifts, Superman's capacity for continual rebooting has kept him fresh from generation to generation: from leaping tall buildings in 1938 to traversing the solar system and even traveling through time in the 1960s and '70s, to surviving both death and matrimony in more recent decades.
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