• Built somewhere with a slope, the house protrudes out so that there is natural light.

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  • The conclusion was the same for drug discovery after the mid-19980s: an exponential decay curve with a slope indicating we were discovering approximately 1 fewer new drugs per year.

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  • Glenn works with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, which represents the business interests of Barrow's Inupiat Eskimos.

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  • To cover a slope with enough snow to ski on, guns must be stationed about 15-30 metres apart, so hundreds are needed at the average resort.

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  • While featuring the same keyboard arrangement and operating style made popular by previous ClassPad calculators, the fx-CP400 is also fitted with keys that slope down from bottom to top, which helps prevent input errors when pressing vertically arranged keys.

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  • "With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.

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  • Exhale's polar opposite may well be the Brooklyn Yoga School, a tiny outfit housed in a charming Park Slope brownstone space with a big bay window.

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  • Check in to a smartly decorated slope-view room with a private balcony, two queen-size beds, TV, DVD player, free Wi-Fi, plush robes, mini-fridge, and coffee maker.

    BBC: Daily deal: Two nights at Solitude Mountain

  • This is why House Speaker John Boehner and so many others have never been able to get on the same page with the president about the upward slope of federal spending.

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  • And, clearly angered at missing just 10 short of a century, Parnell then bowled with hostility down the Nackington Road slope, accounting for Rees in his third over to a sharp slip catch by Hockley.

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  • The prospect of unsettled weather on the first two days at least suggests that Amir and the wily Mohammad Asif will still be a handful with the famous Lord's slope assisting them to move the ball off the seam as well, making it vitally important that England's batsmen knuckle down and be prepared to graft.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • At the edge of the clearing a pregnant cow was lurching up the slope, its eyes wild with terror.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Lost in Uttar Pradesh'

  • "Our role is to really engage in a massive educational effort with employer groups, particularly in Park Slope, to establish communitywide standards, " she added.

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  • If expansions in base money were correlated with predictably higher GDP growth, and contractions in base money were correlated with predictably lower GDP growth, the slope of the line would be flatter and the fit would still be reasonably good.

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  • While the "slippery slope" argument can, and ought to, be a legitimate cautionary policy tool, the invocation of the slippery slope argument can be its own form of slippery slope and must be applied with a large measure of caution.

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  • Back on the stretch of freshly paved road, the team's ironmonger wiped his sweaty palms on his thick leather apron, then retrieved a lunch box from the bullock-cart piled with welding gear and scrambled up the slope to get a better view of the proceedings.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

  • Holding a big conference with your group in the middle of a slope or on the cat track at the top of the slope.

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  • With his outswinger already causing problems, the slope allowed Asif to nip the ball back into the right-hander as well and it was one of those that crashed into Clarke's pads and finally did for him lbw.

    BBC: Australia pegged back by Pakistan in Lord's Test

  • This means that when the vehicles come across a particularly steep or slippery slope, they can anchor themselves with five of the wheels and inch each wheel forward one at a time, to crawl over an obstacle.

    BBC: Mars robots begin test campaign

  • His tee shot on the 10th bounded through the green with such pace that it stayed toward the back slope of the rear bunker.

    NPR: Haas Shoots 64 To Take Lead At Riviera

  • For social media commentator Jeff Jarvis, aligning themselves with the rules of particular countries could be a slippery slope for the company.

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  • Whether this list leads you to a hilltop spa in Mexico, a helicopter-access-only slope in the Canadian Rockies or a kitchen filled with Italian grandmas hell-bent on perfecting your pesto is up to you.

    CNN: Hard to find, but totally worth it

  • Its glittering bulk, squeezed into a narrow plot beneath the Acropolis hill, contrasts sharply with shabby blocks of flats nearby and the pale-coloured rocky slope.

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  • However, investors should also keep in mind that average prices for crude oil (Brent, WTI, Alaska North Slope) in Q4 2012, have generally remained in line with the previous quarters.

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  • It was perched on the slope of a minor mountain, about a third of the way up, with thick slabs of rock stuck under the front side, a new rock every year, to keep the house from tumbling forward into the fields of wild raspberries.

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  • And, in a certain sense, this is probably true: how many parents in Park Slope or Brentwood would trust their three-year-olds to cut the grass with a machete?

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • The station reported that the missing man was hiking with two other men when an avalanche carried all three about 1, 200 feet down a slope at speeds of more than 50 mph.

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  • For those who enjoy their hot dogs with a bit more of a haute cuisine flair, there are the franks at Bark Hot Dogs in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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  • As is the case with so many stores populating the Bermuda Triangle of self-conscious consumption stretching from Williamsburg to TriBeCa to Park Slope, the selection at Stinky is so carefully edited and curated that you know nothing gets in there by accident.

    WSJ: Comforting the Wealthy

  • He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

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