Houston may have almost no tourist assets and is not set up to present a pretty face to visitors.
When each person stood up to present his strategy, everyone else did one of two things: tune out or poke holes.
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In the case of managers, umpires and executives, their time period during the Expansion Era will begin in 1973 and go all the way up to present day.
The next time I had a great idea brewing, I thought through it, planned it out as if I already had buy-in from the group, and piped up to present it at the next team meeting.
"Up to the present, people continue to want see something exotic, bizarre, that hits them at this emotional, passionate level, " Asma explains.
Though this first volume concludes with the French revolution (a second, charting developments up to the present day, is in the works) its insights are relevant to our understanding of modern states and how they became what they are.
The weekly chart covers from the end of April 2012 up to the present.
Theroux ends up having to present a live infomercial himself, something he readily admits was a nerve-wracking event.
There are examples of this kind of influence of technology on self-conception and politics right up to our present day.
On both islands, the characteristic landscape of grassland, pine groves and coastal sands has remained relatively intact up to the present day.
Lothian and Borders deputy chief constable Stephen Allen said politicians should not be afraid to tear up the present structure to create something new.
Bohr died in 1962, but "he set a style of 'proof by intimidation' in physics that has lasted up to the present, " says Carver.
UMP, it will be up to the Socialists to present a united front at a special congress due to be held in Dijon next May.
Its saga up to the present is a heroic tale of inspired design, scrapes with industry incumbents, never-ending cash-flow problems--and even the deaths of two test pilots.
The only way I would be willing to give up present consumption to invest in somebody else is because I believe I can increase my wealth by doing it.
But to start with, all of these countries have long histories up to the present of institutions that really serve small savers - things like post office savings, savings banks.
Her survey is a broad one, beginning in early Ireland and running up to the present, and she relies on her research as well as the pioneering work of others.
And we've got six more chapters to go after that, where we're going to learn about what happened to the characters after the hurricane, and sort of take you up to the present day.
You can use your off work time to take classes or improve your skills to move up in your present company or to become more hirable to another.
William Trevor zooms through the years from 1920s Ireland, when landowners were being driven out of the country, up to the edge of the present day with references to the internet.
If more vaccine were needed, it would take up to a year to produce: at present no manufacturing capacity exists.
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Courses will only be able to count as equivalent to one GCSE - not up to six as at present.
Later she returns once more to scoop up her present, and presumably tells each of her benefactors that he has gotten a bargain from the jeweler.
And that his current bosses, while making smart choices in building for the future, haven't given him much in the way of bridge players to tidy up the present.
And there is to be a shake-up of the present ad-hoc system of trying to match students to schools for teaching practice.
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Lanco expects to ramp up annual production to 15 million tons after the present infrastructure is upgraded.
Nathan McGough, former manager of the Happy Mondays who has known Wilson for 30 years, teamed up with Elliot Rashman, the Mondays' present manager, to set up a fund after they heard of his plight.
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Greece's official lenders, led by the International Monetary Fund, have been pushing for lower coupons and longer maturities on the new bonds to be offered to existing investors, increasing the debt relief in net present value terms to up to 70%.
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A.M. to pick up a Christmas present for the kids, at the Salvation Army.
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