Sciolaro liked a distinctive feature that would increase the pulse of the heart's top chamber in case of arrhythmia.

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With Sen Paul continuing his filibuster. by late afternoon Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the chamber's top Democrat, had called for debate to end, but Sen Paul objected.

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Reid of Nevada is the top Senate Democrat, who sets the chamber's legislative schedule.

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The flying scenes are big and bombastic, and the sound quality makes you feel as though a small chamber orchestra were sitting on top of your head.

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At a breakfast meeting with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, Congress' top tax writer, Rep. Charles Rangel, recounted a telling run-in with Sen.

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He's written violin concertos and chamber music performed by some of today's top classical musicians, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming and the Eroica Trio.

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But Bruce Josten, chief lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says right now his organization's top priority is the flagging economy and shaping a new economic stimulus package.

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Sinn Fein has been the largest party in the council chamber for the past two years and councillor Alex Maskey is hoping for the top job.

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The outer layers are made of acrylic plastic and the vacuum chamber in the middle is divided into three or four watertight compartments stacked on top of one another.

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In a sweltering, claustrophobic chamber the size of a storage closet, a sweat-glazed man in a running top pounds away on a treadmill in the Nike Sports Research Lab in Beaverton, Ore.

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