• Liu was a vocal critic of a scandal-marred city payroll-technology project and has rapped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for not reaching new labor agreements with many unionized city employees whose contracts have expired.

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  • Running through the track as if it were a looped keyboard hook, Morrison's backing vocal provides a nice counterpoint to his showier lead, on which he passionately mourns a love gone wrong.

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  • He has a solo -- or a harmony part, or a lead vocal, or a single perfect guitar lick -- in all the important chapters of the past 50 years.

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  • But David Frayer and Chris Nicolay at the University of Kansas have, over the past couple of years, shown that it is at least equally plausible that Neanderthals possessed a vocal tract similar to a modern adult's.

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  • The group of financiers has met the football club's supporters, who have been running a vocal campaign to bring about a change of ownership.

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  • Hannah is a vocal coach, Lisa is a dance teacher and Abbe has just won her own franchise in a competition to run her own drama academy.

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  • Bureaucrats, joined by splinter environmentalists in large measure inspired by the global warming issue, are part of a vocal contingent pushing nukes as a major alternative to hydrocarbons.

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  • Most daringly, there is a performance by another tenor giant, Ben Webster, which is strictly speaking not a vocal at all, but a recording of Webster rehearsing a big band in one of his own compositions.

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  • Working with the "Red Knights" is the Manchester United Supporters' Trust (Must), which is running a vocal campaign to bring about a change of ownership and has recruited nearly 150, 000 members and the fans' group presented the ticket-price freeze as their first "victory".

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  • Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal analyst, Slate Magazine): In 2003, June, Phil Kline, the attorney general, who is a vocal abortion opponent, issued a legal opinion, in which he said that all state health care professionals had to report any sexual activity by anyone under the age of 16 to state social services.

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  • Some reports suggested the singer had pre-recorded her vocal in a studio at the Marine Barracks Annex on Sunday night.

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  • But now a vocal band of researchers are touting a far larger role for this once obscure vitamin.

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  • Is there something about this topic that's causing people to want to give their vocal chords a work out?

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  • But what on Earth was the name of a friend, who I know is a vocal Obama supporter, doing on a Romney ad?

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  • In historic Sultanahmet, where the Ottoman sultans sought to outdo each other with grandiose building programs, muezzins at each of the imperial mosque complexes give their vocal chords a vigorous morning workout, prompting the faithful to their prayers and hotel guests to their breakfast.

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  • Tsuur music is based on a combination of instrumental and vocal performance - a blending of sounds created simultaneously by both the musical instrument and the human throat.

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  • She is also a vocal supporter of the DREAM Act, a bill that aims to offer an opportunity for legalization to illegal immigrants who finish high school and go on to college or enlist in the military.

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  • The findings, just published in Public Health Nutrition, are a rebuff to an increasingly vocal campaign by a small group of public health academics to impose hefty taxes on sugar sweetened beverages in order to curb obesity.

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  • She subsequently went on to train as an opera singer, graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a BA in Music, a post graduate diploma in vocal studies and a further one in Opera studies.

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  • In the procedure, called injection augmentation of the vocal folds, a doctor threads an endoscope through the patient's nose or mouth into the throat, then injects a tiny amount of collagen, fat, hyaluronic acid or a gel filler into the vocal cords to plump them up.

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  • Icahn is a vocal opponent of anti-takeover measures--a June 13 posting on his Web site decries "the absurdity of the poison pill"--but he apparently hasn't seen fit to dismantle ImClone's defenses since he took charge in October 2006.

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  • The commander, a vocal Wayne Rooney fan, finally drops us off at a hotel in Astara.

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  • The NYSE sent out the text of a memo from Chairman Marshall Carter admonishing a seat holder who has been a vocal critic of the Exchange for his attempts to block a vote to approve the Archipelago merger.

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  • The NYSE sent out the text of a memo from Chairman Marshall Carter admonishing a seat holder who has been a vocal critic of the Exchange for his attempts to block a vote to approve the Archipelago (amex: AX - news - people ) merger.

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  • For the "War Requiem, " Britten assembled a large orchestra, a smaller chamber orchestra, two organs, three vocal soloists, a chorus and a boys' choir (positioned at a distance, with a portable organ or harmonium).

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  • Professor Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and a vocal critic of homeopathy, said the huge drop in prescribing reflected a shift in attitude within the medical profession.

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  • The influence of Serge Gainsbourg is audible in the opulent sonic textures, in the cheeky wordplay of Leon's French lyrics and, especially, in his whispery talk-singing a vocal style pioneered by Gainsbourg that gives every song the feel of a slightly scandalous confession.

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  • It was a vocal chorused outside the stadium by 100, 000 supporters crammed into a specially-built fan zone in the center of Warsaw -- and those almost exclusively Poland fans had plenty to shout about in the opening 20 minutes of the opening game.

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