Such was the heady feeling of success that HMV would get together all of their store managers and head office staff for a three day "conference" every year, which was two and half days of fun and partying and a half day of presentations by the board.
Put as simply as possible, it advocated eating from all food groups every day -- two cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables a day, including veggies both dark green (kale, broccoli) and orange (carrots, squash), starches (potatoes, corn), and "other" (artichokes, green beans).
Now that was two and a half years after the day the proclamation was issued.
Here is the setup of these studies: Take people who have just had something very bad happen to them, like a motor vehicle accident or a rape, and within a few hours or a day or two at most, flip a coin and put half these people on a beta blocker and half on an inactive substance that looks the same (i.e. placebo).
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At the squatter camp, I met a man who carries 40 litres of water in two containers, one and a half kilometres to his home every day.
Newton was a key figure in the Ashes-winning team of last summer, and scored two half centuries in a victorious one-day campaign in Sri Lanka which followed over the winter.
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Half-day tours, walking tours and two-day tours that include a visit to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve also are available.
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Before Taylor went to Bethlehem, a team of seventy-five men loaded ninety-two-pound pigs of iron onto rail cars at a rate of twelve and a half tons per man per day.
Fortunately for innovation, postal service to the backwoods of Pennsylvania was so slow that the letter arrived a day or two after Drake and Uncle Billy had, at a depth of 69 and a half feet, struck oil.
On a good day, you'd come home with a buck and a half -- two bucks or more if the World Series was on or Lindbergh was flying.
Commodity prices have come down, there is less access to trade, and so for the poorest people, the three billion - half the world that lives on under two dollars a day - it is a serious issue.
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