But, "when you have this albatross around your neck — and it's a costly albatross — that's not a good business model."
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Odds of making an albatross: 1 in 1,000,000 A hole-in-one is a challenge in itself, but an albatross is a whole other animal.
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Wisdom was one of 8,400 albatross banded that year and one of hundreds of thousands of Laysan albatross breeding on Midway Island, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Tumblr post.
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Like many animals, Laysan albatross are threatened by human activity.
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"It is an albatross around their neck," he said. Sens.
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Various ailments have been an albatross on d'Arnaud's promising career.
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But, tomorrow's taxpayers own the albatross — 10 times the earmark.
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Many feel the law will be an albatross for Republicans.
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The Crystal City holdings eventually became an albatross for Vornado.
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For both, the album is an albatross, not an answer.
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What should have been an honor has become an albatross.
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"Obviously pretty spectacular," said Cabrera Bello of his career-first albatross.
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That could be an "albatross around the company's neck," he added.
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This has been an albatross on the conference for nearly months.
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Finding a mate can take a long time for an albatross.
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The war in Yemen is already an albatross around his neck.
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But what seemed like a policy breakthrough became a political albatross.
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At some point, that contract is going to become an albatross.
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By now, every industry has an IoT albatross around its neck.
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HATCH: TAX SYSTEM IS AN 'ALBATROSS': Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called the U.S. tax system an "albatross and "a roadblock, designed almost haphazardly, that stands between us and long-term growth and prosperity.
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"Every single albatross in this landscape has been fed plastic," he says.
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Those of us who grew up online each have our internet albatross.
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That film has been a bit of an albatross for the actresses.
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When students cannot pay back their loans, their debt becomes an albatross.
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Phibro became a financial albatross, and Phibro-Salomon was renamed Salomon Inc.
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For the new digital-first Times, it was something of an albatross.
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The Midtown Manhattan skyscraper has long been an albatross for Kushner Companies.
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"In which case it could become an political albatross around his neck."
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Which is admirable, though relatively tame compared to the antics of the albatross.
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Raposa: Thank god the Phillies still have Ryan Howard to albatross those unknowns.
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In some cases, she actually wears the object: an albatross of an accessory.
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Government is not simply an albatross around the neck of otherwise free individuals.
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" Trump was absolutely right in 2016 when he called student debt an "albatross.
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What was once a weekly albatross has evolved into a semi-regular nuisance.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)The Galaxy Note line is kind of an albatross.
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With its eight-foot wingspan, the white Swoop drone resembles a robot albatross.
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Research firm MoffettNathanson said it feared Sky would be an albatross to Comcast.
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The deployment is not, in the context of the defense budget, an albatross.
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"It was an albatross," a senior Bush White House official told me recently.
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" Slant Magazine's Chuck Bowen touted it as "a pitfall albatross of corporate capitalism.
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The sea, spool of junk, similar to land abides by plastic the albatross eats.
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Taxes had become a Democratic albatross, and Clinton was determined to cut it loose.
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Far more troublingly, Happ's free throw shooting this season (50.0%) has been an albatross.
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Trump may be an albatross, not an asset, for Republicans like Gianforte in 2018.
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When Congress talks infrastructure, there is an albatross in the room — federal grant funding.
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He said he did not think Mr. Trump was an albatross on his candidates.
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But after more than a century of use, they became more of an albatross.
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Sanders's opponents believe his plan to nationalize American health insurance is a political albatross.
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But the ancestral home — an albatross, a joy — is rarely far from their minds.
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As store traffic slowed, costly leases turned into an albatross around Mattress Firm's neck.
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It acts as an albatross around the neck of the economy and hinders growth.
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Midway consists of two islands, on which 3 million seabirds, including 1.2 million albatross, nest.
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So the Laysan albatross will probably be eating mostly plastic about 30 years from now.
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Planned Parenthood would not be a political albatross in a country with a sane politics.
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Laysan albatross breed in large colonies, returning to the place they were born every year.
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That speaks to the albatross hanging around the island's neck: the uncertainty over its status.
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While the former Studebaker site had been seen as an albatross, it contained potential riches.
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As such, it's easy for a young man to regard his virginity as an albatross.
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Is honesty an albatross hanging uniquely around Clinton's neck, as the pundits seem to think?
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The conflict in Yemen has become an albatross for the United States, and maybe worse.
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The condition of today's infrastructure shows federal grant policy for the albatross it has become.
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Chris Jordan's documentary Albatross, filmed on the Midway Atoll, will be released live on albatrossthefilm.
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For those not making more than $150,000 the debt becomes an albatross around the neck.
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Jared Kushner would find a financial savior for 666 Fifth Avenue, his family's towering albatross.
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Now go finish up alphabetizing that spice drawer before it becomes your next procrastination albatross.
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Co-workers at the newspaper would speak of The Albatross in hushed, almost reverential tones.
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But he left me with an albatross, and I just don't have more to give.
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That albatross has led more millennials to move in with their parents than any other generation.
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But some worry that Mr Amin is less of a counterbalance and more of an albatross.
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Her career and her voice, climbing and rising like a coastal albatross above and beyond Sammy.
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But the so-called Buffalo Billion is in danger of becoming an albatross for many involved.
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Democrats, for their part, are doing everything they can to turn Trump into a Republican albatross.
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For parents, however, supporting grown children can be a financial albatross when their own retirement looms.
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Correction: The headline of this story originally said the albatross was pregnant, which was cute but incorrect.
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Shiny streams of steadfast blue overlap the wave's face, oily as fish eggs to the albatross eye.
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Wisdom is a 65-year-old albatross living in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and she's still kicking.
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It ended up being an eagle, but damn-near was an albatross with a near hole-out.
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Blue-state Republicans have the added albatross of the tax bill signed into law late last year.
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And the debt should not be an albatross around their necks for the rest of their lives.
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The appearances surrounding the foundation are problematic, and it is and will be an albatross around Mrs.
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And the former Democratic president may not become the albatross that Republican candidate Donald Trump expects, either.
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Consumers would be forced to wear their home jurisdiction like a tax albatross when they shop online.
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Albatross, Hunter Mockett's new album as Aaberg, develops as slowly as a sepia photograph in a darkroom.
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And of course, there's the albatross of the Emanuel administration: his handling of the Laquan McDonald shooting.
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There has been concern among some educators that the Renewal program might become an albatross for schools.
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To put a fine point on it: The military parade idea was an albatross from the start.
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In practice, it would be a boon to Republicans and an albatross around the neck of Democrats.
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It could lead to an implosion of the GOP that Trump thoroughly controls like an iron albatross.
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In the middle of the Pacific, albatross chicks die, weakened from overconsumption of bottle caps and toys.
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Back in the 1980s though, they could be a social albatross, their owners mocked as self-important grandstanders.
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Trump's popularity can't drop a whole lot more without him becoming a substantial albatross around Republican members' necks.
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That's how I feel as I watch the knife slice through the sternum of a dead Laysan albatross.
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The dark, eerie world of Midway Atoll is, at times, a standing-room-only scene for albatross chicks.
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"This debt should not be an albatross around their necks for the rest of their lives," Trump said.
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The albatross parent has been away for three weeks gathering stuff for her young and what comes out?
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This supposed one-time, two-week quick fix becomes a financial albatross that lasts six months or more.
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In 2016, mathematics in our society continues to wear an albatross around its neck — with rather strange comfort.
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Vulnerable Democratic incumbents are betting that the bill will be a political albatross in the 2018 midterm elections.
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The regime eventually learned that residents were escaping and dispatched an L-39 Albatross to strafe fleeing vehicles.
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They embarrass governments, cause businesses to be skeptical of international partners, and hang an albatross on international relations.
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Mr Trump's elimination of the state-and-local tax deduction is an albatross for Republicans in high-tax California.
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It promises that it plans to deleverage quickly, but too much debt has been an albatross around Time Inc.
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Cause for concern: Slugging 1B Chris Davis retains one of the biggest albatross contracts in the sport after hitting .
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The SLS is proving to be an albatross that may sink NASA and its dreams of space exploration glory.
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"Margot is a close friend who was around during lots of the experiences that fed into Albatross," Mockett wrote.
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Its billions of dollars in corporate bonds that could be the albatross around its neck as interest rates rise.
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He's worried that Moore could become an albatross for other Senate GOP candidates in 22019, just as former Rep.
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For Republicans, Kavanaugh's embattled nomination in the #MeToo era could become an albatross, just weeks before the midterm elections.
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"That was an unbelievable shot, so I got my new dog (a white Pomeranian) and named it 'Albatross'," smiled Jang.
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Not through gates of the temple led by priests, passed from booth to ceremonial booth, does the albatross await sacrifice.
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However it's an entirely different story for the unloved phone-making business — that albatross around Steve Ballmer Satya Nadella's neck.
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He eventually traded the Arenas albatross for the actual worst contract in NBA history, Rashard Lewis's $100 million stink bomb.
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Some species live for two or three years, while others, like the albatross, can live for up to 50 years.
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And Univision's private-equity owners are still struggling with their albatross after buying the broadcaster for $12.3 billion in 2006.
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There's no albatross hanging around Sony's neck, no moonshot that it has to figure out ways to sell and promote.
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American Robert Garrigus hit the shot of the day at the driveable par-four 17th, almost making a rare albatross.
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JULIET: Like th' albatross who sails o'er the sea; like the solitary moorland tree, I, Juliet, now alone must be.
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But they can also point to McConnell for forcing them to carry the albatross of Garland obstructionism around their necks.
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While Riggio has presented himself as the heart and soul of the company, the lawsuit depicts him as an albatross.
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And more than 30% of female albatross in a Hawaiian colony bonded for life, sharing chick-rearing duties, researchers wrote.
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A Trump endorsement may help Mr. Cox in a multicandidate primary, but it's likely to be an albatross in November.
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Instead they were both siren and albatross, marking Mr. Ball as simultaneously individual and an agent of someone else's desires.
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Will Trump and the GOP seize the opportunity or have it as another albatross around their neck for the midterms?
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Their physical branch networks that have long represented a competitive advantage for traditional banks are becoming an albatross around their necks.
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John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican, who told CNN earlier this year that Trump could be an "albatross" for his party.
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Van Franeker says that in a small albatross species he studies, about 90 percent of birds have plastic in their stomachs.
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" John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, predicted that Trump would be "an albatross around the down-ballot races.
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Prepare your body for the rigors ahead and, unencumbered by the albatross of survivor's guilt, you'll outmaneuver exhausted humans no problem.
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If Pelosi was such an electoral albatross, Democrats wouldn't be heading toward their biggest net gain in the House since Watergate.
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Some Republicans fear that he'll be an albatross for the party, or energize Democrats to turn out and vote against him.
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Later, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote of a giant albatross flying over frozen seas in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834).
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In one scene, a scientist comes upon the bloody carcass of an Albatross chick whose stomach was punctured by a toothpick.
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"The real winners are the American people and, actually, Republicans, because we don't have that albatross around our neck," Simpson said.
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Baltimore was also in the running for Upton, offering starter Ubaldo Jimenez to San Diego in a swap of albatross contracts.
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We don't need or want this albatross — there are thousands of perfectly good trees right across the street in Prospect Park.
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Toshiba paid billions for Westinghouse a decade ago, but disappointing sales and huge cost overruns turned it into a financial albatross.
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The dead body of a baby albatross, its stomach cut open to reveal the diet of plastic waste that killed it.
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Albatross lay one egg and raise one chick a year, and if you haven't seen it, they perform an incredible courtship dance.
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The Laysan albatross, a vulnerable species for which the Midway Atoll refuge is home, depends on the oceans around it for food.
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The problem for the Laysan albatross, like many other sea creatures, is that these plastic pieces are attractive: They look like food.
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For more than three decades, the events of Tiananmen … have hung round the leadership like the albatross around the ancient mariner's neck.
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Albatross The following day, I had this great idea to buy a boom box radio so Gatsby could listen to Christmas carols.
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The first Fisher Prize winner was Ly Dang for her close-up of a black-browed albatross taken in the Falkland Islands.
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To get out there and live your life — whether your body is an ally or an albatross — is all that really matters.
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Christie has proven to be an albatross for Guadagno, who was trailing by 27 points in a poll released on July 12.
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House Democrats are hoping President Trump's newly proposed budget blueprint will be a political albatross for Republicans at the polls next year.
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The legacy of slavery, racism, and Jim Crow has been an albatross around the necks of African Americans for over 400 years.
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She reimagined Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with a live albatross bound to the bow of a ship.
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"Very often, albatross come when I am swimming, land beside me, and peck on my hand, peck on my wetsuit," he said.
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The Trump administration sees a regulatory albatross instead, as it rushes to help for-profit companies that benefit handsomely from burdening students.
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Frank and I started the night at Albatross, a foreigner-friendly bar dripping in red velvet, chandeliers, deer busts, and disco balls.
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Foxing emerged from the rickety St. Louis scene in 2013 with The Albatross, one of the so-called emo revival's success stories.
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But they face an uphill battle with the albatross of President Trump, overwhelmingly rejected by city voters in November, hanging around them.
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It took two people about 10 minutes to tape one of the solar-powered loggers onto the back feathers of an albatross.
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An albatross trying to feed her chick while coughing up a toothbrush, and dead chicks full of plastic jar-lids and lighters.
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And when one of these underwater bubbles reached the surface, it grew like the bulge the Albatross witnessed over a century ago.
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And he complicates the narrative, slightly, by sprinkling antagonists throughout — mostly rival music executives though not Mr. Knight, Dr. Dre's greatest albatross.
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If progressivism were such an albatross, Brown would have lost in a state that looks more and more Republican by the year.
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A parade of strong fundamental news Tuesday helped the stock market forget the albatross of technical indicators that had been dragging things down.
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Meanwhile, Comcast saw the RSNs as an albatross and was equally willing to divest them, according to people familiar with the companies' thinking.
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If Republicans refused to act, then House Democrats "could hang this case like an albatross around the neck of the Republicans," Bagley says.
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If they are successful, those mice may eventually be released on sea islands where mice have been known to prey on albatross chicks.
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That could mean 14 separate bombs carried in the B52's belly and on pods that hang from its long, drooping, albatross wings.
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Its vehicles (which have a range of hilarious names like Albatross, Sunbear, and Mongoose) reported disengaging 22017 times during the 12-month period.
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Market participants say the ongoing investigation has been an albatross to pushing through Trump's pro-growth agenda of tax cuts and infrastructure spending.
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"We can't have a nominee be an albatross around the down-ballot races," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas recently told CNN.
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The resulting songs, with their flairs of African-American ebonics and distinctly tinny early-00s production, became an albatross of sorts for Pink.
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As it stands, though, this bill is a massive albatross for Republican candidates—especially those who are on the ballot in six months.
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When you were stressed out last summer, you would watch a live cam of a baby albatross growing up in New Zealand. Confirm.
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Precisely because his approval is already so low, Trump does not need to fall further to be an albatross around his party's neck.
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But the governor and his allies are betting that they can get the bill through the legislature before it becomes a political albatross.
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Though its owners took no dividends, that debt became an albatross for the toy retailer — sucking money out of it year after year.
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The six-episode…Read more ReadSamsung Thinks Two Galaxy Notes Might Be Better Than OneThe Galaxy Note line is kind of an albatross.
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Its vehicles (which have a range of hilarious names like Albatross, Sunbear, and Mongoose) reported disengaging 105 times during the 12-month period.
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In this instance, the governor still controls the money — through the authority — but as the subways sputter, that responsibility can be an albatross.
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Fure takes inspiration from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"—in particular, from the image of the albatross struck from the sky.
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It is, it is indeed just an albatross around the neck of every person in America who's got someone who doesn't like them.
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Trump's once seemingly invincible command of a variety of media has become an albatross the more he needs to focus on one storyline.
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This mode of self-generation represents a financial albatross on Nigerians equivalent to between $220 and $2000 billion compared to grid-based power.
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Houston, if it finds a taker for Chris Paul's albatross contract, would also want Butler as a no-nonsense Robin to James Harden's Batman.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads 'BUT THE BIRDS DIVIDED HE NOT' The albatross has been abused by poets by being compared to them.
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Photo: USFWSThe world's oldest wild bird, Wisdom the Laysan albatross, has once again returned to her breeding grounds, and she has laid another egg.
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Laysan albatross are sea-faring birds found in the northern Pacific Ocean that breed in the northwestern Hawaiian islands, nesting in enormous breeding colonies.
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It's hard to shake the feeling that Huffman is an albatross around the neck of a company is trying very hard to grow up.
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Washington (CNN)In February, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn bluntly said that a Donald Trump nomination could be an "albatross" to his Republican Party.
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Fresh produce is the albatross around grocers' necks — it's got a razor-thin profit margin, it spoils quickly, and illnesses can prompt public hysteria.
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On No. 275, he missed an albatross by inches when his shot from 212 yards hit just right of the cup and rolled past.
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"The same people who are judging you, who are hanging that albatross around your neck, are the people who consume your product," Knight says.
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"This is the equivalent of a giant albatross being lifted from Argentina's neck," said Aberdeen Asset Management's head of emerging market debt, Brett Diment.
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The policy applies to a wide range of birds like the black-footed albatross, the tricolored blackbird, the snow bunting and hundreds of others.
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Coleridge's albatross, Poe's raven, Hitchcock's homicidal flock and Iñárritu's costumed Birdman: Birds act as figures of prophecy, manifestations of trauma, voices of the superego.
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It was the first albatross at the Hilton Head, South Carolina course since 2007 and the fourth of the year on the PGA Tour.
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But the songwriters also reckoned with the role that Glasgow plays in Rose-Lynn's life, and not just as an albatross around her neck.
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Ryan is the Senators' highest-paid player and is signed through 9073, and his recent play had made that deal look like an albatross.
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It's just my swimsuit, but sometimes (when I'm especially melodramatic), it feels like an omen, some slain albatross that will carry with it misfortune.
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"We have a seabird, the Laysan albatross, that nests on the ground," said Joshua Fisher, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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But if you're feeling really shit about the amount of effort you're getting from your paramour, consider the humble albatross, which is no deadbeat dad.
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After carding an albatross in Wednesday's pro-am, which was a wasted effort, he was solid if unspectacular on Thursday when the real action began.
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The next attorney general could stymie the Russia investigation led by Robert Mueller, which Sessions had recused himself from, possibly freeing Trump from that albatross.
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At 28, he's matured from a stat-stuffing albatross to an authentic All-Star and, if he continues at this rate, an All-NBA center.
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My business partner and I once nearly came to blows debating whether or not to take on the albatross of a $30/month cellphone plan.
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Yet after two-plus years as the Twins' albatross, there's a symmetry to Mauer finding his groove right when the struggling Twins most need it.
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Over the last ten years, this tightrope—once called "selling out," later rebranded into "authenticity"—has been the albatross of many of her female contemporaries.
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Either way, said jackass hurled a bottle at erstwhile Phillies superstar and current wingless albatross Ryan Howard after he grounded out to end the game.
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However, they have since lost much of their regulatory capital value as new rules have been implemented, and have become an albatross around Lloyds' neck.
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"We're finding these homes are an albatross for clients," said Michael E. Chadwick, a financial planner and owner of Chadwick Financial Advisors in Unionville, Connecticut.
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If you listen to the song called "Albatross." which was the B-side of "Catch The Breeze," there's zippo lighters and scissors running on guitars.
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Theoretically, Washington could ship him, Andrew Nicholson's minor albatross contract, and a lottery-protected 2018 first-round pick to the Denver Nuggets for Wilson Chandler.
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STUDENT DEBT In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, last month, Mr. Trump called college debt an "albatross" around people's necks, and suggested a way out.
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Even when your intuition is telling you that nothing's out there, the only way to know for sure is to put in the hours and examine every speck of bird life out to the horizon, every Antarctic prion (might be a fairy prion) darting among waves whose color it matches exactly, every wandering albatross (might be a royal albatross) deciding whether the ship's wake is worth following.
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You can zoom in on faraway airborne creatures and use those photos to prove to your partner that the thing you saw really was an albatross.
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In "Albatross," the ensemble appeared to coalesce into a single protean wind instrument, the sound's fuzzy dry contours filled out by diaphragm-tickling low brass notes.
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Keep in mind, Howard Dean just bellowed and it was the end of him, so I have to believe the altercation will be a political albatross.
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If they fail to do so, then the electoral results of 85033, 2014, and the losses of gubernatorial seats and State legislatures will be their albatross.
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Modular phones are the passing fad of 2016, and Lenovo's commitment to them beyond this year could be an albatross for an already ailing mobile division.
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Normally, all of this would be disqualifying on its face, but it hasn't yet proven to be an albatross for the blue team's general election chances.
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Still, the short-term frustration of taking a suboptimal deal may fade with the freedom that comes with removing this metaphorical albatross from around its neck.
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It became an albatross around his neck, branding him as a 'bought and paid for' puppet of D.C. rather than a true representative of the people.
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" As Miliband's answer about Iraq spiraled on and on, he recalled a bit resentfully how someone had said to him, "You know, Iraq is your albatross.
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"This is the equivalent of a giant albatross being lifted from Argentina's neck," said Brett Diment, the head of emerging market debt at Aberdeen Asset Management.
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Parakeets exhibit different social structure than, say, starlings or albatross, so it's difficult to conclude what role behavior plays in synchronized flight across the avian spectrum.
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Eric Staal and Cam Ward are still very much the faces of the franchise, but their albatross contracts both expire at the end of the season.
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Calls for American-made Macs are an albatross for Apple's Mac division, which is already beleaguered by competing visions and waning attention to design, according to Bloomberg.
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Albatross parenting isn't easy: The USFWS says the birds lay only one egg at a time, which the parents then take turns incubating for over two months.
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There's hope that his latest venture might provide a similar space for a return to form away from the overweight, yellow albatross that hangs around his neck.
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The ball veered into the sky with an insane amount of draw, only to line up cleanly along the pin, almost whispering its way to an albatross.
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Sessions' recusal from matters related to the 2016 election has meant he is free to bore down on his own agenda, unencumbered by the administration's Russia albatross.
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One particularly weighty albatross: its Autonomous Technology Group, which since 2015 has poured hundreds of millions into building self-driving car tech it has yet to commercialize.
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The player is either an albatross, meaning they're paid too much, or a bargain, meaning they're worth rooting for now, but only until they get appropriately paid.
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After years of defending President Obama's signature domestic policy achievement as it became a political albatross, Democrats see an opportunity to go on the offensive with voters.
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In a speech on industrial strategy last month Peter Altmaier, the economy minister, included Deutsche in a list of "national champions"—although national albatross is more accurate.
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For another, I wouldn't want to suggest that the kind of anxiety I'm describing is something in need of fixing, something negative, an albatross cursing your ship.
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Or that Starlin Castro would be among the American League leaders in batting average, or that Jacoby Ellsbury's contract would no longer be looking like an albatross.
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Investors who once saw Pearson as a savior now consider him an albatross: when, last week, Valeant announced that he would step down, the stock price rose.
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In the end, that expletive-deleted corner's potential was the ghost that brought me back into the game, and so for that I'll embrace my albatross warmly.
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Dropbox's $10 billion valuation has served as something of an albatross for the company, causing it for years to fend off questions about whether it was overvalued.
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In baseball's age of market efficiency, he remains a walking albatross — the highest-paid player on baseball's biggest payroll and the winning pitcher in six games last season.
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While student loans can "feel like an albatross around your neck," Rossman says, there's usually hope, because many student loans have built-in, easy-to-understand expiration dates.
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Chris Jordan's "Midway: Message from the Gyre (Albatross)" (2011) is an example of an artwork which has become, as Boetzkes puts it, "an iconic image of the Anthropocene".
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But the line gives Republicans yet another way to disparage Clinton's handling of Benghazi, a terrorist attack that has been an albatross hanging around Clinton's neck since 2012.
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They demand all-or-nothing allegiance to their own ideas and instead of moderately conservative laws, we wind up with the Obama-status-quo albatross around our necks.
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More dangerous, he evidently questions NATO fundamentally — reportedly recently telling G7 leaders that it is "as bad as NAFTA" and costs too much, conjuring a zero-sum albatross.
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Republicans are cheering on the Democrats' embrace of single-payer health care, believing the move to the left will be an albatross for candidates in next year's elections.
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The case has become an albatross for Mr. Peńa Nieto, who took office in 2012 promising to reduce violence, and it has contributed to his plunging approval ratings.
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Better than a logo, the Missoni knit patterns are also something of a design albatross, since if you alter them too radically you become just another knitwear label.
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He attended Queens College, where he studied comparative literature, before dropping out in his third year to tour and make music with his band, Fall of the Albatross.
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CreditCreditAdam Amengual for The New York Times For Beth Terry, the epiphany came when she read an article about how albatross chicks are being killed by discarded plastics.
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More than that, he proves to the audience that he might be more than the whiny-voiced kid who spent years as an albatross around his father's neck.
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In certain ornithology circles, Wisdom—a Laysan albatross—is a celebrity: She's the oldest banded bird in the wild, living in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii.
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Though the Senate passed the bill 68-32 in 2013, it died in the House and became a political albatross for the Republicans who worked to usher it through.
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In the video, an all-electric, self-driving Chevy Bolt, code-named "Albatross," is seen driving for about 23 minutes through the Mission and Protreo neighborhoods in San Francisco.
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Two-dozen bird species, including the black-footed albatross and red-footed booby, occupy the island, as well as dozens of coral reef-dwelling fish in the surrounding water.
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Why it matters: This might be the merciful end to an albatross of an investment for Cerberus, which over-leveraged, over-consolidated and completely misjudged political and reputational risk.
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Examples of her work in these mediums include projects based on the eggs of a native species of albatross whose survival is endangered by the consumption of ocean trash.
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"Obviously Democrats are working to hang Trump around him as an albatross but that's a double-edged sword because Hillary Clinton is just as terribly unpopular here," Shope said.
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" The flagship network at the time counted about 17 million subscribers and had struck a programming deal with Netflix that Mr. Albrecht described as an "albatross around our neck.
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I had spent my life with this story as my albatross, trying my best to repay her by being a good daughter and not disrupting the bond between us.
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"We can't have a nominee be an albatross around the down-ballot races," Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, told CNN on Monday.
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With loser stink, a scarlet letter and an albatross now publicly affixed to me, professional colleagues—industry types that I thought were friends— hesitated to be seen with me.
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Similarly, his new job in TV news is exactly the sort of thing that seems great right now but will probably become an albatross as TV news further deteriorates.
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Instead, they'll have a Trump-sized albatross around their necks, and they fear he's going to pull all of them down, giving control of the Senate back to Democrats.
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We can now follow the arctic tern, which may travel 56,000 miles in a year, as well as the albatross, which sails the winds hundreds of miles per day.
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Then he became something of an albatross for the Cubs, with decent production that did not justify the eight-year, $136 million contract that had brought him to Chicago.
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Roy Moore lost the Alabama Senate race 21625 percent to 2900, according to the AP, but the albatross will hang around the GOP necks for a very long time.
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Corey Stewart will now join the likes of Todd Akin, Roy Moore, Richard Mourdock, Christine O'Donnell, & many others by being an albatross around the neck of GOPers in Virginia & beyond.
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Barnes still has room to improve, Wes Matthews' contract is no longer an albatross, and they've maintained long-term cap flexibility—a necessity for teams riding the treadmill of mediocrity.
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The baby's name is Kūkini, which is Hawaiian for "Messenger," and he was born in an Laysan albatross mating ground on the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Hawaiian islands.
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The format awards eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par, and subtracts a point for bogey and three for double-bogeys or worse.
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That's forbidden by the Albatross Society, a group of similarly-long-lived individuals, so they threaten to derail his new life and alienate the one person he might truly need.
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It was the Benghazi probe that revealed Clinton used a private email server for government work, prompting an FBI investigation that proved to be an albatross for her presidential campaign.
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"One thing you've heard Donald Trump talk about again and again is an albatross of a $20 trillion debt hanging around the necks of our children and grandchildren," Collins said.
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Midway serves as an important habitat for the birds—70 percent of Laysan albatrosses use it to raise their young, as do other species of albatross and birds more generally.
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The format awards eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par, and subtracts a point for bogey and three for double-bogey or worse.
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Populations of wandering albatross are half as large as they were in the 1980s, according to a paper published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Mr. Rooney's statement announcing an end to a tradition that had become a relic, if not an albatross, did not say whether the Friendly Sons would admit women as members.
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Tax reform, as it should be, is an overhaul of the very structure of the income tax system that has evolved into an albatross around the neck of the economy.
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I will gloss right over the albatross pictures; I know that seabird has been a delicate topic for you ever since you needlessly shot one, sealing your doom and whatnot.
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The public acclamation became a personal albatross that blurred his identity, with his obligations as the public face of the sport bleeding into his time as a husband and father.
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Michigan businesses have had the albatross of having to provide health care for their employees for quite a long time, and in circumstances where it's really threatening to the business.
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Had you told me a month ago that "taking money from the NRA" would start to feel like a political albatross — even for a couple of hours — I might have scoffed.
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While the football player gets barely a slap on the wrist, Jessica still admits she feels "stronger" for sharing her story and looks as if an insurmountable albatross has been lifted.
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Jang made the albatross on the eighth hole, at 218 yards, hitting a 3-wood shot into light wind that landed a yard in front of the green and rolled in.
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Clinton's albatross Weiner has been a pariah in Clinton's world since he was forced to resign from Congress because he sexted multiple women while he was married to Clinton's closest aide.
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Photo: Madalyn Riley / USFWS VolunteerWisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross and the world's oldest known wild bird, has successfully hatched a chick, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Obama marveled at a group of turtles basking in the sun but was also pointed to bits of plastic littered around the island that had been ingested by its many albatross.
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"We can't have a nominee be an albatross around the down-ballot races," Cornyn told CNN when asked if he had concerns about the prospect of Trump winning the GOP race.
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The trade had become an albatross for the firm, which ultimately chose to sell the bonds at a loss and retire its Berkshire insurance, recognizing the $1.6 billion loss in 2016.
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Considering the stakes — both your own success and the success of your employer — it's bizarre to me that we've cast the occasional breakdown as the Kleenex-white albatross of corporate culture.
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Obamacare, so long an albatross for Democrats during the previous administration, is now much more popular than it was, despite its failure to provide all middle-income Americans with affordable options.
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Simmons also said he's going to continue to use his position to highlight just how shameless the NCAA is, and how it reduces its precious "free education" to a year-long albatross.
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So, every time we see an albatross on Midway swoop majestically into the ocean to catch its prey, it's quite likely the bird is swooping up a bottle top or a lighter.
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It could have been their albatross, but instead Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly cut the cutesy-coo and lo-fi canned beats, with each album surpassing the last in confidence and vision.
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The marine protected area was first established by President George W. Bush in 2006 for the preservation of tropical reef-life such as green sea turtles, Hawaiian monk seals, and Laysan albatross.
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GoPro ultimately worked out the issue, but the product appears to have become something of an albatross around its neck, with the company pulling out of the space altogether late last year.
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There are only eagles, birdies, pars and the ever-worsening parade of bogey types—leaving aside the astonishingly rare three-under-par albatross, which occurred just eight times in our entire dataset.
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"Albatross and other sorts of birds have high aspect ratios (a measure of aerodynamic efficiency) with wing shapes that curve up at the tips," said Simon Galpin, head of aerodynamics at Airbus.
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From the Oval Office, the president and his hard-charging staff pushed through a spending bill, an auto bailout, and a health care overhaul that would become a political albatross for years.
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Mr. Trump, a real estate developer at the time, described the Reagan tax law as an albatross on the economy, warning that such sweeping changes were disrupting deals and stultifying economic growth.
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A second Republican senator warned that McDaniel, who has a history of making controversial political statements, could become an albatross for other Senate candidates in the same way that former Missouri Rep.
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But in works like "Something to Hunt" and "Albatross" Ms. Fure takes the time to build these collections of sighing, scratchy and shuddering sounds into sophisticated textures that gradually take on profound expressivity.
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Overnight leader Joost Luiten of the Netherlands, who picked up the third albatross in the tournament's history on Friday, is two shots off the pace after shooting a 71 on an inconsistent day.
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Kauō means "egg" in Hawaiian, and is also the Hawaiian name for Laysan Island, and Sumiye has created sculptures cast from real Laysan Albatross eggs and made of Hawaiian beach debris and resin.
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Instead I'd say 3D printing will push HP into an entirely new era, allowing them to abandon the commodity PC and printer hardware that has thus far been an albatross around their necks.
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The big picture: A polling memo from WPA Intelligence and Definers Public Affairs, "Political Peril Facing Red State Democrats On SCOTUS Obstruction," shows how Republicans will try to make the issue an albatross.
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" Collins pushed back against any GOP concerns about infrastructure spending, saying Trump focused throughout the campaign on the "albatross of the $20 trillion debt hanging around the necks of our children and grandchildren.
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Birds transformed what was once mere frippery into some of the most enviable adaptations on the planet, from the ocean-spanning breadth of an albatross to the torpedoed silhouette of a plunging falcon.
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Paul B. MacCready, for instance, became famous in the 1970s for building Gossamer Condor, the first successful human-powered aircraft, and then Gossamer Albatross, the first such craft to cross the English Channel.
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Unlike a painting or a ring, a house can be a very expensive heirloom to keep, and for many families, it changes at some point from a beloved home to a costly albatross.
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Unencumbered by that albatross, "Parasite" has a better chance of making headway with some of the more traditionally-minded Academy voters looking to preserve the theatrical experience (beyond Netflix's preferred limited run, anyway).
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While much of the heat focused on Buttigieg, a number of the candidates onstage said they believed Sanders' background as a democratic socialist would become an albatross during a difficult race against Trump.
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The cartoon highlights creatures such as the wandering albatross, which sports the widest wingspan of any bird alive, as well as the speckled coelacanth fish, a species that's been around for 407 million years.
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GM has been testing its self-driving Bolts in a several areas, sharing video of a test car — code-named "Albatross" — driving through San Francisco earlier this month with Cruise Automation technology built in.
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The European steel assets of Corus, which Mr Tata acquired when he was in charge, turned into a costly albatross, plunging the steel group into losses of £1m ($1.2m) a day at one point.
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He should have anticipated this potential pitfall, but he was never able to effectively deal with the legacy of his brother, who some top Iowa Republicans say is a big albatross in their state.
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The albatross carry five tons of plastic onto the island each year — plastic that was created, consumed and then dumped by humans, and is now is being fed by these birds to their chicks.
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A good majority of what I was writing about for The Albatross was subtly dealing with post-traumatic stress, but it was so bathed in metaphor that a lot of people didn't see it.
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That left Elvira or Dunne needing an albatross on the 18th to force a tie but that was too tall an order with Dunne getting a birdie to pip the Spaniard to second place.
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Apart from picking up three strokes in one fell swoop with the albatross, it lit a spark that led to three birdies in the final six holes for Knox, who double-bogeyed the ninth.
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But now that the FCC's regulatory authority is on the strongest legal footing in years, agency officials are well-positioned to address pressing policy issues without the albatross of net neutrality around their necks.
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But one of the first things he does in "Albatross," a solo show inspired by the poem and written by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett, at 59E59 Theaters, is busy himself with the sails.
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"The fact is that the Trump administration and the Republicans who are rubberstamping it in Congress have become an enormous albatross for Republican candidates, even in districts Trump won handily in 2016,"Bates said.
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Neither of those had contributed much to the Wizards success this season, and Nicholson comes with the baggage of the albatross-y four-year, $26 million contract he signed with the Wiz last summer.
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So he took to the radio, touted the success of his first 100 days, and in the process created an albatross for each of his successors, who found themselves on an artificial, and impossible, timetable.
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We've all seen the gruesome images of a sea turtle killed by a plastic bag, or the array of bottle caps, toothbrush fragments, and other plastic items found in the stomach of an albatross carcass.
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Where some narratives would treat this new chapter of her life as a clean slate, it's clear Sansa carried her trauma with her, as a laurel on her head and an albatross around her neck.
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I've never felt in my life, "Oh, I never want to go onstage and play 'Naïve'" but I have felt this albatross of a first album that's like a big pendant hanging on your neck.
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The format, designed to reward aggressive play, gives eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par and subtracts a point for bogey and three for double-bogeys or worse.
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Moore is clearly an albatross for national Republicans following accusations that he pursued sexual relationship with five girls between the ages of 24 and 215 while he was a district attorney in his early 30s.
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But efforts to turn this into a political albatross for Democrats seem unusual and bizarre, as they seek to hold a party and its candidates accountable for the past behavior of one of its supporters.
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We have had — and continue to have — our partisan thirst to understand the motive, but just as important, to see if we can hang the murders like an albatross around the neck of political opponents.
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"People want more than to tick a holiday box," said Jimmy White, a naturalist who will lead participants as they record biodiversity levels and track king penguins, albatross and fur seals with wildlife photo identification.
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But conversely, it could become an albatross around Tesla's neck if the company finds it has bet on the wrong technology — or if it takes longer than expected to bring self-driving software to market.
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Leveraged buyouts of retailers have become increasingly difficult to finance, with lenders concerned about the albatross of debt payments as retailers must invest in technology and innovation to help adapt to the changing retail landscape.
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Whether the end of Mueller's probe means the end of Trump's long legal albatross, or just the beginning, is largely a matter for Congress and the various other prosecutors who have taken on ancillary investigations.
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The work, which has drawn countless tourists and visitors since 2005, depicts Dodi and Diana dancing in the waves of the Mediterranean beneath the wings of an albatross, which is supposed to symbolize freedom and eternity.
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But for someone like Jennifer Lawrence — whose image was formed on the basis of a smattering of behaviors between the ages of 22 and 24, during her precipitous rise to superstardom — it can become an albatross.
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"CVS has gone from a market darling to a total dog, as its once-vaunted pharmacy benefit manager business has become an albatross around its neck and the company loses share to its rivals," Cramer said.
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When Clinton's plane touched down in Iowa, a state that has been an albatross around Clinton's neck for almost a decade, reporters quickly exited so they could attempt to shout questions at Clinton as she deplaned.
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It was an albatross, a symbol of the horrid brutalities committed in the name of the war on terror—not to mention the most potent propaganda tool terrorist recruiters abroad could possibly have at their disposal.
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During a recent visit, an employee who goes by the name Pepper showed how samples are fetched from glass-walled carousels by giant yellow robotic arms in a meticulously programmed ballet resembling an albatross love dance.
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The strategy of presenting Trump as a consummate dealmaker is becoming an albatross for the President, partly because he is operating in a domestic and international environment where there are few low-hanging deals on offer.
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This seems like the year when we figure out whether the former first overall pick can be a key supporting piece for a contender, or a salary cap albatross who has to be shipped out, Eberle-style.
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And then we took our journey that was led by Peter Green with "Oh Well" and "Rattlesnake Shake," and "Albatross," and all the weird songs that came out of the period were all represented in our story.
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The format, which is designed to reward aggressive play, gives eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par and subtracts a point for bogey and three for double-bogeys or worse.
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Even when he's innovating, as he is here, with his first digitally shot picture and his first feature-length collaboration with Apocalypse Now cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Allen wears his usual preoccupations around his neck like an albatross.
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Seabirds such as Albatross, Gulls and Petrels have declined a staggering 70 percent in the last 70 years, faced with the combination of fewer forage fish, rising sea levels, warming oceans and greater acidity in the water.
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He was no longer an albatross with a capital A — until he resumed flailing away this season and the unsparing Cashman had to ask himself, besides $21 million in 2017, how much do we owe this guy?
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"Trump is proving to be an albatross around all of our necks, and it is creating a very challenging environment," said Rob Jesmer, a Republican strategist and a former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, enacting genuine health care reform and removing the last albatross from an already burgeoning economy would not detract from GOP fortunes, but would herald in a new Republican majority for years to come.
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Conversely, this looming albatross can be an obviously dark place for Jeremy, and it is a testament to his character and conviction that he is hopeful, proactive, and refuses to live out his days in sexual forfeiture.
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But for the Yankees, the most encouraging story of the night had to be the continued dominance of Sabathia, who three years ago looked like yet another albatross on their payroll and another anchor on their roster.
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Bill Maher seems to consider wokeness his personal albatross as he's apparently blind to the paradox of getting paid likely millions of dollars a year to complain about what he believes he's no longer allowed to say.
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On July 7, 7503, the cutter Albatross was cruising the volcanic islands of Alaska when the sea began to swell into a dome the size of the nation's Capitol building, as one account noted with admirable specificity.
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Let's watch future polling, but make no mistake, the GOP tax bill could well become the latest GOP albatross in the midterm elections, coupled with the hugely unpopular family of disastrous health-care bills earlier this year.
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"Right now the Street is largely dismissing the national security issues on tech, although the Qualcomm move was a wake-up call and the Apple/China situation is an albatross investors are trying to handicap," Ives said.
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The 36-millimeter Acorn size came from the acorn trees in Mr. Swan's parents' garden in the Cederberg mountains outside Cape Town, while the Albatross size, at 44 millimeters, was named for the sea gulls on Muizenberg's beach.
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The event is played under the modified Stableford format, and awards eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par, and subtracts a point for bogey and three for double-bogeys or worse.
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Moreover, the Republican tax bill became an albatross for Walters and Rohrabacher because of the way it altered state and local deductions -- a blow to homeowners in a county where the median home price is now beyond $715,000.
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They could get headlines for being open for business—possibly winning the attention of other, smaller suitors—without actually having to go through with the kinds of ludicrous tax giveaways that could turn Amazon's HQ2 into an albatross.
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Kushner worked feverishly to save the deal, and has built his company despite it, but it's been a financial albatross ever since, one reason Kushner has spent so much time looking for Chinese investors, and possibly Russian ones.
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But if the father and son team believed that they had purchased a real estate trophy in one of the most desirable locations in the city, the debt-laden tower turned out to be more of an albatross.
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In order to obtain those two extra first-round choices, which originally belonged to the New York Islanders and the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Golden Knights had to pick up the albatross contracts of Mikhail Grabovski and David Clarkson.
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Now, Mayer and her attempts to save the big purple albatross are history, and she's left with the shell of a once-mighty company that will join former competitor AOL as a dusty Web 1.0 trophy on Verizon's shelf.
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"CVS has gone from a market darling to a total dog, as its once-vaunted pharmacy benefit manager business has become an albatross around its neck and the company loses share to its rivals," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Larger pieces of plastic also pose a risk to marine wildlife, such as sea turtles, which often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, and seabirds like Laysan albatross, which are regularly found with lighters and children's toys in their stomachs.
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Mnangagwa said the government would in the first quarter of next year announce a program to reform, commercialize or shut down some state-owned firms he said had been "for a long time an albatross around the government's neck".
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In 22016, a picture of Shed Bird, a six-month-old Laysan albatross, whose sliced-open belly revealed a collection of lighters, bottle caps, and other plastic scraps, became an environmental icon, a symbol of our careless throwaway lives.
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But as reporters unearth new information about Moore's past statements, the former state supreme court justice risks becoming an albatross around the neck of the national Republican Party, which is entering the 2018 campaign cycle without significant legislative achievements.
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"Mitch McConnell was an albatross around Luther Strange's neck, much like Nancy Pelosi has been used against Democrats," said Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which often targets Republicans who are close to leaders like Mr. McConnell.
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It concerns the clothes that A.P.C. makes, and also its ambitions, the A.P.C. epithet and albatross: "This eternal thing: 'They do basics,'" said Jean Touitou, the A.P.C. founder, sitting at his dining table, battling back his bugbear of decades.
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McCartney's reputation as an optimist, the vanguard of '60s hippie ideals, has been something of an albatross around his neck at points of his career, but in a post-Trump/Brexit world, it's come back around to being the highest compliment.
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"Birthday Sex" is an almost comically simple song—which is definitely one reason for its popularity—and that simplicity has long been an albatross for Jeremih, who is one of the best and most innovative pop songwriters of his generation.
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Unless you share an enthusiasm for either the great royal albatross or gold mining history, it's unlikely that you've ever heard of his hometown, Dunedin, a university town of 127,226 that occupies the bulging southern tip of New Zealand's South Island.
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Each meditation is no longer than eight minutes, and as you sync your breath to the imagined creature's, you'll fly across the sea as a Laysan albatross or experience the peculiar state of being suspended in water as an octopus.
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While in years past, the party's approval—and the endorsements and funding that followed from it—was seen as crucial to winning elections, the fact that the party is historically unpopular means that its support has become something of an albatross.
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Clinton's political baggage (Benghazi-gate, Server-gate, etc.) has always been seen as her albatross and now surging candidates on the right and left have her in the cross hairs, making her march to the White House a calamitous trek.
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But the failure of Macron's predecessor Francois Hollande to prevent the shutdown of the Florange steel mill in the eastern rustbelt and a PSA factory in a rundown Paris suburb proved to be an albatross around his neck throughout his presidency.
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The albatross of Medicaid expansion has not come to Kansas, strong work requirements for welfare were enacted, property owners were empowered against massive property tax hikes, and a tax credit scholarship program for low income kids were signed into law.
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In the most piquant of the film's dozens of allusions, one of the central characters of "Rise and Fall" emerges from the inevitable shipwreck of the Hadley project to present himself for employment at another company, this one called Albatross Films.
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When he is approached by the Albatross Society, a secret association designed to protect albas from the twin threats of superstition and science, he hopes its mastermind, the hedonistic Hendrich Pietersen, will be able to help him track her down.
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But as social media has become increasingly connected to unpleasant bickering, race-baiting and Russian propaganda, the must-have "social" label has become an albatross, said Joseph Bayer, an assistant professor at Ohio State University who focuses on social networks.
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Compounding WeWork's woes, the coronavirus epidemic is likely to become an albatross around the firm's neck, as its very business proposition – flexible, co-operative working from the office – sits at odds with the growing need to work from home if possible.
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Last year WeWork boasted about becoming the biggest private tenant in Manhattan, London and Washington, D.C. Those feats have now become an albatross, and WeWork's biggest investor, SoftBank, is scrambling to keep the coworking space provider from spiraling into bankruptcy.
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Penguins traversing a beach full of sea mammals, albatross parents leaving their chick behind, polar bears wading where they formerly walked on ice — we've seen it before, in Attenborough's programs or in similar shows on PBS, Discovery or the Smithsonian Channel.
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What looked like a questionable deal at the time, even with Cabrera coming off back-to-back American League MVPs when he signed the eight-year, $248 million extension in March 2014, is now one the sport's biggest albatross contracts.
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The GOP-passed tax bill's approval rating jumped from 26% at its passage in late December to 39% -- not nearly as high as Republicans would like to see, but a stark improvement over what once looked like a political albatross.
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In the jargon of the aeronautics, they have a "low aspect ratio," which means that their length to width ratio is very small; long slender wings (like those of an albatross or sailplane) which have a high aspect ratio are much better.
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The combination of a growing economy and sustained, energetic opposition to the status quo can be attributed to one simple factor, the albatross hanging around the neck of every Republican running for re-election in a swing district or state: Donald Trump.
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I do think that the albatross of the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado — which took place at a screening of another movie set in the Batman universe, The Dark Knight Rises — predestined a lot of the narrative around Joker from the start.
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She would go on to land roles in Broadway productions like "The Long Dream" (1960), "Nobody Loves an Albatross" (21950), "The Amen Corner" (21979), "The Skin of Our Teeth" (21950) and "Vieux Carré" (19140), written by Tennessee Williams, with whom she became friends.
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Not only is iTunes an albatross that just keeps getting more bloated, separating the app (again, you can still link your local files with it if you want — the same way Spotify does) will let the features of the service itself shine.
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Most of the best songs on this album are about how little tastes of stardom — Mr. Posner had a handful of hits in the early 2010s — ended up feeling like assaults, and how Mr. Posner's easy gift for melody is like an albatross.
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Now that a gay man — or what Ronnie calls a "wonder homo" — is an important feature of every sitcom and social set, has the argument that "we are just like you," with which we once argued for equal rights, become an albatross?
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The explosion in red ink has become such a political albatross that House Republicans set a vote for Thursday on a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution in an attempt to demonstrate that they are serious about fiscal discipline despite their recent actions.
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By analyzing low-frequency infrasounds (which our own ears can't pick up) coming from the area, researchers have determined that for over half a year, the volcano released gas in the same variety of massive bubbles the Albatross crew spied, over and over.
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Yet if the bill fails, Republicans in the House could end up like House Democrats under President Bill Clinton, who passed a controversial energy tax that was reduced to rubble in the Senate, but remained an albatross for Democrats in the 1994 elections.
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His generosity in gifting his collection of 5,20183 objects to the nation, stipulated in the will of Lady Wallace in 1897, may have eventually proved to be its albatross; it is not allowed to change or leave its site at Hertford House.
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Otto has been a bit of an albatross around the neck of the ride-hailing company since Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, accused one of Uber's executives of stealing its self-driving vehicle designs before leaving Google to start the self-driving truck startup.
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To emphasize a feeling of freshness, the Kendal's team used a light wash of the NARS Contour Blush ($24) as bronzer, the neutral beige NARS Blush in Zen ($30) on the cheeks and NARS Albatross Highlighting Blush ($30) for a little extra opalescent glow.
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Even though Mr Pujols's days as a superstar are long gone, the memory of his glory days and his albatross of a contract—he will earn over $100m from 2018 to 2021—ensures that the team will give him every opportunity to turn things around.
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Anthony Cordesman, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, cautioned that a safe zone inside Syria could become a diplomatic albatross that would force a Trump administration to juggle a host of ethnic and political tensions in Syria indefinitely.
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Require IT modernization for state and local governments Many federal, state and local government agencies are burdened under the same IT albatross: legacy systems, sometimes decades old, that are costly to maintain, virtually impossible to adequately defend against cybersecurity threats and often don't perform well.
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If there's a lesson to learn from Virginia, it's that Republicans have one big problem the Democrats don't: the guy living in the White House, who is simultaneously the elephant in the room, the monkey on their backs, and an albatross hanging around their necks.
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Former President George W. Bush's 2003 speech on an aircraft carrier in front of a huge banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" came to be seen as an albatross around his neck as the war in Iraq dragged on, bringing Bush's approval numbers down with it.
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The first time I can remember hearing about "combative foreign policy" was when I was 13 or 14, and the big news was the Iran-Contra affair, a sort of paramilitary shell game that became the albatross around the necks of the entire Reagan administration.
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For example, there is no evidence that the tubes in an albatross beak function like pitot tubes to measure their air speed; rather, these nasal channels are for the outflow from their salt glands and allow them to survive in a high-sodium, oceanic environment.
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An underwater volcano released a cloud of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and water vapor that rose to the surface as a bubble before destabilizing and exploding, giving the officers of the Albatross a show few humans had ever witnessed—and few have witnessed since.
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He came away with nothing worse than a chipped tooth, but his misadventure inspired Yankees teammates to dub him Gooney Bird, for the albatross, found mostly on Midway Atoll in the Pacific, known for what are taken to be pratfalls while it scurries on land.
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In that pact, the U.S. agreed to help solve a much-larger scale immigration problem for Australia by accepting as many as 1,250 migrants intercepted at sea and held for years in offshore detention centers that became a political albatross for multiple Australian governments.
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Stiffer lending standards and more onerous financial obligations, including albatross-like student loans as well as rising rent and healthcare costs, have led to an uneven housing recovery that has left many out in the cold — with millennials feeling the brunt of this phenomenon.
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In effect, the inflationary policies of the Greenspan Fed and its successors created a giant hole in the supply side of the U.S. economy, and then filled it with $229 trillion of debt which remains an albatross on the main street economy to this day.
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American Daly, a former British Open and U.S. PGA champion who has failed to make the cut in a major since 2012, started strongly at the Albatross Golf Resort with birdies on his first three holes before adding two more to turn in five under.
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There are the infamous albatross contracts given to veterans, like the $125 million extension signed by Ryan Howard in 2010, but most of the time it was veteran players being paid a fair wage, or being slightly overpaid, well into their 30s, and sometimes 40s.
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But Republican strategists warned that her shift to the right on Trump and his hard-line immigration policies could also prove an albatross in November, when she will face a well-funded moderate Democratic congresswoman, Kyrsten Sinema, in a race expected to be tight.
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That put him three ahead of Ireland's Shane Lowry, who was the leader in the clubhouse at 1423-under 2142 after shooting a 271 that included an albatross two at the par-four 214th, where he holed out with a wedge from 120 yards in the fairway.
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In an era of tight budgets and doubts about whether that onetime cash cow is now an albatross, administrators ought to consider the true contribution of medical schools to the university, not just as professional training grounds but also as an epitome of true liberal education.
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The 27-year-old, who surged to a one-stroke lead following Saturday's third round at the Albatross Golf Resort, held his nerve on the final day to go 19-under for the tournament and clinch a second title in Prague after his maiden win in 2015.
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Nikon D850 with Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED AF-S VR lens; 1/4000 second at f/8.0; ISO 400Photo: Ly Dang (Audubon Photography Awards)Ly Dang spotted this black-browed albatross in the Falkland Islands, and was wowed by its namesake black brow.
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What's unsettled in the response to this year's free agency is, it seems to me, not that the market dumps these riches on Matthew Fucking Dellavedova or the dusty husk of Joakim Noah or a swole albatross like Dwight Howard or lumbering anthropomorphic blintz Timofey Mozgov.
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Kushner's status as a visionary is entirely disputable: His real-estate company was a birthright, not a start-up, and as an article by Charles Bagli in The Times this week demonstrated, one of Kushner's key acquisitions, the skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue, turned into an albatross.
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But she has made a strong start this season, tying for 11th at last week's Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic where she aced the eighth in the third round with a three-wood from 218 yards to record the LPGA's first ever albatross on a par-four hole.
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There's no escaping the unpleasantness of the dynamic here: Riley is the cool dude who takes things in stride and looks to the future, and Jenai is the weak, emotional albatross hanging around his neck, clinging to the past by endlessly checking her email and crying over old voicemails.
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The effort is reminiscent of the Republicans' long-drawn campaign to hammer away at the Affordable Care Act and turn President Obama's signature health-care expansion into a down-ballot albatross for the Democrats -- an effort that helped the Republicans retake the House with sweeping election victories in 2010.
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While Rose dropped three shots in one hole, Harris English, an American despite his name, picked up the same number with an albatross at the par-five 11th, where his second shot from 235 yards landed softly a couple of paces in front of the cup and rolled in.
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The bonds are pegged to leases of its Model S and X cars, and it marks the first time that Elon's electric albatross has turned to asset backed securities for new money(Tesla has already tapped public markets, junk bond markets, and convertible-bonds to get additional capital).
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From Dai Wakabayashi and Mike Isaac in The NYT: But as social media has become increasingly connected to unpleasant bickering, race-baiting and Russian propaganda, the must-have "social" label has become an albatross, said Joseph Bayer, an assistant professor at Ohio State University who focuses on social networks.
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The effort is reminiscent of the Republicans' long-drawn campaign to hammer away at the Affordable Care Act and turn President Obama's signature health-care expansion into a down-ballot albatross for the Democrats — an effort that helped the Republicans retake the House with sweeping election victories in 2010.
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That's a problem for Republicans on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, particularly headed into a midterm election where the President's approval rating, hovering around 40%, is an albatross for his party and his allies are in grave danger of losing control of at least one chamber of Congress.
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That's why we are as gripped by " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " as the wedding guest within the poem who can't tear himself away from the sailor's tale—even though the tale itself is an outrageous one involving a magical albatross, a terrible curse, and a ship crewed by ghosts.
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And Democrats believe the unpopular President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE will be an enormous albatross around the centrist lawmaker's neck.
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The practice of calibrated accuracy between model and image, which Degas dragged like an albatross from the glory days of the French Academy into the chaos of World War I, had been ambushed decades earlier by the Impressionists, with Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) delivering the coup de grâce.
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Pacific Division champion Anaheim, making its fifth appearance overall in the conference finals and second since winning the Stanley Cup in 212, swept Calgary in the opening round before overcoming the Game 22015 albatross with a 2647-19823 victory over Edmonton on Wednesday to earn a rematch against the Predators.
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