This brings yawns from the multinational companies, which snubbed the whole idea of exploiting coal-bed methane.
But in a way, the yawns that greeted his story are his best life insurance policy.
And they were affected more by yawns of their group members than by those of unfamiliar chimps.
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In most European countries the appointment of a minister for culture creates little stir (and often yawns).
But unless there's a big surprise in the earnings, don't expect much more than yawns on Wall Street.
The disclosure itself ( a new financing plan) was greeted with yawns and a 7.3% drop in share value.
He is encouraged by flashes of scent he sometimes gets when he yawns.
"You get attacked in the night by biting ants and cockroaches running around, " he yawns and smiles as he tells me his story.
The team says that it was this social connection rather than just how much attention the chimps paid to the videos that influenced the "contagiousness" of the yawns.
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With Gehry, we get to wave adieu to what Tom Wolfe memorably called the "Rue De Regret" of International Style German workers' cubes and replace our yawns with a little shock and awe.
"Computer-aided education -- not a breakthrough, " he yawns.
And when the Orlando Magic suffer, America yawns.
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Yet another open seat yawns in the impoverished Delta region in the south-east, where Marion Berry, a Clinton administration official who won his seat in 1996, also bowed out of a re-election bid in late January for health reasons.
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