• Footage of The Beast struggling to execute a three-point turn in Downing Street was a viral hit.

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  • Of course, the U.S. can find many parallels (even down to a worrisome drought) with Australia's turn at this point in the economic and political cycle.

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  • Yesterday's story about its refusal to remove horrifying decapitation videos, followed by a rapid U-turn, is a case in point.

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  • That in turn should give Albanians a stronger vantage-point from which to seek changes in the constitution.

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  • In a Capraesque turn, Friedman at this point, the youngest store manager in the history of the Gap recalls raising his hand at a crowded company meeting, in response to a question by Drexler.

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  • Unlike my prior experience, the market did not turn back in my favor, and after a point I began to sweat.

    FORBES: Orchestrating Failure

  • "You'd have to make a 20-point turn to get a truck in, " said Martin Dougherty, an engineer overseeing the project for the Army Corps.

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  • He was also whistled for a flagrant for awkwardly barreling into LeBron James, who in turn went on a frenzied nine-point run that opened the game up and led to him finishing with 32 points.

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  • That, in turn, prompted fears other financially troubled nations in the EU could do the same at some point.

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  • Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.

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  • Therefore, stops just under the first low will get hit, leaving traders on the sidelines at a level that in hindsight will turn out to be an excellent entry point.

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  • Zinc fingers, so named because they contain a zinc atom and are shaped like an index finger, can turn specific genes off or on or to some point in between, delete genes altogether or add new genetic material.

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  • At the exact moment when you have flashed a new PowerPoint Image up on a screen (it helps if you turn to it and point as well) all heads in your audience should then be staring directly at your screen.

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  • Nearly all of Cuba is being affected by this major hurricane, that is now downgraded to a category two hurricanes moving south or very close to the southern coast of Cuba, expected to turn northwest at some point and again make a landfall in Cuba for a second time before it goes on to the Gulf of Mexico.

    NPR: Hurricanes Wreak Havoc In Haiti And Cuba

  • "The point at which Japan's savings turn around in terms of momentum has long been seen as the time to sell the Japanese yen, " said Sebastian Galy, strategist at Societe Generale.

    WSJ: Weaker Yen Lifts Tokyo Exporters

  • The whole point behind HomePlug is that you use turn the electrical wiring in your home to create a network.

    ENGADGET: Netgear's 802.11g HomePlug extender

  • Ministers are now giving schools just one year to turn around or face being closed or replaced - a point they highlighted in commenting on the annual report from the inspectorate, Ofsted, which showed 13% of secondary schools inspected last year were judged inadequate.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Long road out of special measures

  • While a company set to be the next big thing can dramatically throw out these kinds of metrics because of its spectacular potential, there comes a point where the law of scale kicks in and promise must turn into reality.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The entry point plays a key role in whether any trade or investment will turn out profitably.

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  • But at this point, he says, Gates has few directions in which to turn, and basically, he's got to come up with a creative strategy.

    NPR: Gates Has Just Two Years to Make a Difference in Iraq

  • These, in turn, connect to 132KV export cables carrying the electricity to a beach landing point at Pensarn for onward transmission to the new electricity sub station at St Asaph.

    BBC: ?12m wind farm contract to safeguard 350 jobs

  • Even if Mr Serra is at last making a persuasive case, overturning a 14-point lead in just four weeks would be like performing a handbrake turn in a ten-tonne truck.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil's presidential election

  • There is enormous potential in the UN Plan of Action in bringing the full weight of the UN to bear on the challenges, and in being a point of reference for others who share the concern to turn the tide.

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  • Using optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to inhibit specific cells with light, the researchers turned off IL cortex activity for several seconds as the rats approached the point in the maze where they had to decide which way to turn.

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  • The challenge for the U.S., in turn, is to use bin Laden's death to make the opposite point to the Iranian people that time isn't on the side of extremism or extremists, and that America hasn't lost its ability to push events in the opposite direction.

    WSJ: In bin Laden Wake, U.S. Faces Bigger Challenges

  • And as Baumol went on to point out productivity increases (the flip side of innovation) turn up faster in market based systems than in centrally planned ones.

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  • Whenever I ask government officials and ministers why they are taking so long to reach a deal with EDF on building the promised vast new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, they say "40 years" - and turn a whiter shade of pale.

    BBC: What's a fair nuclear price?

  • But at some point technology will catch up with Bloomberg, or there'll be a turn in the market.

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  • It was one of only two companies worldwide (the other was Korea's Posco) to turn a profit making slabs in the fourth quarter last year, when steel prices hit their low point.

    FORBES: Carnegie would be jealous

  • Parker had 10 points and four assists in the third quarter, when San Antonio outscored Brooklyn 30-14 to turn a six-point halftime deficit into an 81-71 advantage.

    WSJ: Parker, Spurs dominate 2nd half in rout of Nets

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