Like most elevated homes, it is designed to absorb a blow from Mother Nature without jeopardizing either the occupants or diminishing the environment surrounding it.

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In other words, a play easy enough to blow off without looking bad.

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Verizon is not going to countenance the big blow to its U.S. market share without a response.

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It's a major blow for the Yankees, who are already without Alex Rodriguez until at least the All-Star break.

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West Indies went into the game without pace bowler Jerome Taylor because of injury, and suffered a second blow when batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul suffered a groin problem while fielding.

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Control-room operators, in a mock-up of a real off-shore control room, can be trained to deal with a range of tricky situations including explosions, leaks of poisonous gas and oil-well blow-outs, without the risk of so much as a scratch.

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He bounded up the wall and leapt without hesitation, as if he were atop a volcano that he knew was ready to blow.

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Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.

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Having been privy to a few leaked Dell PowerPoint presentations in our day, we can say without reservation that they know how to blow that stuff out.

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