The brand that had been associated with a warm and fuzzy Mean Joe Green and that had been able to teach the world to sing was in need of a recalibration.

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Although it was November, the temperature of both the air and water was still warm and it was not hard to launch myself into the green water.

BBC: Long-distance swimming in Nepal��s glacial mountain lakes

On the kitchen table his lunch awaited him, a plate covered with an inverted plate to keep warm: chicken, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, and green beans.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

When she held the seashell to her ear, she could hear the warm wash of the Gulf of Mexico, and think of a green palm island far away.

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Labour MSP Ken Macintosh, Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, SNP MSP Gil Patterson and Green MSP and party co-convener Patrick Harvie all paid warm tributes to the retiring ministers and wittily welcomed the new appointments.

BBC: Ministerial appointments debate

The Fall 2012 palette embraces many of the rich colors of autumn, such as, warm and cold natural beige, chestnut, brick red, copper, orange, musk green, blue and grey.

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Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.

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Which lender, whether in receipt of government funds or not, would believe in "green shoots" when faced with a looming threat that might make the subprime crisis look like the warm up?

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