Sweden has a complicated relationship with alcohol - immoderate consumption goes hand in hand with fearsomely high prices, official disapproval and a state monopoly on selling liquor.
Raw recruits for the Royal Navy will be getting a first hand experience of life on board with a new high-tech training base on land.
The U.S. presents a mixed picture with high unemployment rate and a weak housing market on one hand and growing consumer spending on the other.
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With his left hand useless, he struggled slowly back to his team-mates in their vehicles, already aware that "the situation had suddenly, unexpectedly and with a high degree of frustration reached a situation where that hand wasn't going to be any good for -40C let along -80".
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South Africa on the other hand will be on a high with two teams reaching the Super 14 final and will be wanting to set a marker down for their World Cup meeting with England in September.
One unfortunate note on the LCD: we're not sure if Stantum didn't pick a high-quality part, had some trouble with the hand-built nature of this product, or is really impeding the LCD with its resistive overlay, but there was something cheap and pixelated to the display that we haven't noticed on standard Dell mini 10 LCDs.
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The High Performance Chronograph on the other hand is offered with a black or white dial in a matte black ceramic case.
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With over a million pixels in your hand, text is sharper, high-definition movies are more vivid, and the responsive touchscreen makes switching between apps, flicking through ebooks or surfing the web buttery-smooth.
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On the one hand, Telluride is a very affluent town with high real estate prices, on par with places like Aspen and Deer Valley, and as a result it has all the support industry, like dining, spas, services, and off slope activities like heli-skiing and dog sledding.
Nearly half a century later, Paul Volcker in 1981-82 put the country into a deep recession with high interest rates to curb inflationary expectations that were out of hand and destroying our competitiveness.
Although many have clearly been in very high spirits, as yet no-one has been spotted with a beer in hand.
Is it any wonder then that these breakthroughs combined with the high margins that existed because of the previous hand working era, caused a rush of entrants that saw an opportunity to earn a living comparable to their counterparts that had graduated from high school and college?
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Consumers, on the other hand, were bombarded with television commercials reminding them that high cholesterol is a dangerous but treatable problem.
So the Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the IRS. The agency high-handedly refused to hand over the documents within the deadlines set by the law.
We haven't had a chance to shoot with the new high-end DSLR just yet, but it felt quite solid in hand, despite the more compact design and significant weight drop.
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But while most countries appear to be comfortable with women pursuing professions, the study also uncovered a lingering perception that men have an upper hand on landing high-paying jobs and are more entitled to employment in times when jobs are scarce.
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