As we drove up past Nanaimo and Courtenay, the number of cars around us thinned and thinned until it was just us and forest roads for miles.
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To find out how much extra water a thinned watershed produces, the university has placed sensors in thinned and control plots in the Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest north of Yosemite National Park.
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Bones thinned by osteoporosis are brittle and more easily fractured.
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As the crowd thinned, Longwith noticed something on his phone.
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The morning crowds had thinned and it was lunchtime now.
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He thinned the existing vineyards, pulling up every other row.
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His hair has thinned and turned white; his stride, slower.
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Without birds to spread tree seeds, the forests thinned out.
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The crowd thinned out and Mr. Gargan began cleaning up.
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As FX goes digital, the ranks of dealers will be thinned.
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I've aged, so my face has thinned out a little bit.
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The traffic thickened, the rain thinned and my engine stayed constant.
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So instead of widening, my family tree tapered, its branches thinned.
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But as the population has thinned, so has its genetic diversity.
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Paraffin-thinned color stretches over the canvas; bodies dissolve into background.
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The crowd outside the ceremony thinned as the morning went on.
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The Democratic field has thinned out recently, with former Texas Rep.
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In 2013, it had thinned to three hundred and ninety feet.
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Market moves were, however, exacerbated by holiday-thinned trade, analysts said.
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The only difference, really, was the thinned-out texture of the dip.
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Volumes have thinned out in Europe with the summer lull kicking in.
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Confidence is thinned; missions are delayed; costs are incurred; competitors are emboldened.
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Then colorist Carly Militello thinned out Bonnie's highlights and added darker tones.
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Attendance thinned to about half after midnight, but the atmosphere never dampened.
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The veil has thinned, and your psychic powers are in full effect.
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The conversations thinned to just those who actually should be considering it.
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He felt in his pockets for the space where the thread thinned.
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Federal lands were also salvage logged and thinned to create fuel breaks.
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The shelves have also thinned due to our warming planet, scientists think.
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Introduced predators like goats and cows have thinned the snail's numbers significantly.
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In time the heavy foliage lining the river thinned, then grew sparse.
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I've never been so happy for a thinned shot in my life.
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The crowd definitely thinned after Game 3, which featured their favorite, Iverson.
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Corporate promises of resources and freedom have thinned out top academic departments.
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S. trade deal supported the safe-haven metal in holiday-thinned trade.
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The 2008 economic downturn was also a challenge, as membership rolls thinned.
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As Dr Hood reports in Ecological Applications, the death toll was 50% in the control zone, 39% in the area intentionally burned, 14% in the one both thinned and burned, and nearly zero where it was merely thinned.
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The usual swarm of New Yorkers and tourists with selfie sticks had thinned.
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Mustafa and Ahmed waited until the crowd thinned out, and then went back.
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First, there is the ground made of vertical brown strokes of thinned acrylic.
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Along the river the crowd thinned, reduced to the occasional jogger or cyclist.
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This year's personal touch could bump a value thinned after years of flooding.
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He pointed to, among other thinned-out departments, the Office of Public Liaison.
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It then thinned and spread out, covering an area of 58 square miles.
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From pure ink to thinned wash, the color shifts from blood to pink.
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Piano stores and art galleries, once prevalent, have also seen their ranks thinned.
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Mr. Fardon criticized budget cuts that have thinned the ranks of federal prosecutors.
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The surface plastic was also thinned to make their tone just the right shade.
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The crowd had thinned considerably since the weekend's climax, but numerous die-hards remained.
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So meted, the powder thinned out into a liquid the color of microscope slides.
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The yield on longer dated bonds rose on profit-taking in holiday-thinned trade.
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When the clouds thinned, he took dead aim and let loose with his guns.
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He is the only realistic candidate in a field thinned out by government controls.
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Trade was thinned by public holidays in Japan, South Korea and the United States.
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It was open to 429 pros and beginners but the herd was quickly thinned.
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Glaciers have thinned and retreated across most parts of the region since the 1970s.
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At the same time, cocaine supply into the UK also thinned, and purity nosedived.
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As I cut into his scalp, his blood spilled forth, as thinned blood does.
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For decades, technology has thinned the membrane that separates the famous from the ordinary.
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Although Brazilian supplies thinned during the quarter, export sales from the United States surged.
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Soy crushing margins have thinned since last week's trade deal news, the trader said.
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Iowa and New Hampshire have voted, but the Democratic field has not appreciably thinned.
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It's like Microsoft took the Surface Book's screen and thinned it down to 10mm thick.
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While Gianforte holds leads in all public polling, his lead has thinned in recent polls.
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By midsummer, the cohort of novice gardeners had thinned out, but the weeds were thick.
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The batter would probably be thinned to make the pancakes shorter and more elegantly rounded.
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Then freezing rain fell, the field thinned, and 2:44:04 later, Sellers finished second.
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Meyer paints on the floor and works in oil thinned to the consistency of watercolor.
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Mr. Trump's national security staff has thinned out drastically in the past year or so.
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Mr. Gilliam, too, soaked and stained unprimed canvas with pools of thinned-down acrylic pigment.
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As I crested the hill, the trees thinned out and I hit a curving road.
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The base metals market was also trading in holiday-thinned volume during Asian trading hours.
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The Texans thinned their running back ranks earlier this week by placing D'Onta Foreman on waivers.
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That thinned-out conference was held a few days before Crown Jewel is scheduled to start.
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The protests thinned, and Trump drew applause from the crowd for his tough talk on guns.
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That war explains why Ukraine's naval contribution to the drills has thinned out in recent years.
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In July, however, ice had thinned enough for some cargoes to head east directly to China.
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That was that time when we did it and we thinned [them] out, but never again.
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Trump has had his signature hairstyle for decades, though it has thinned significantly over the years.
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The thinned medium alone lends the paintings a luminosity that makes the startling subjects feel lighthearted.
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In recent years, IPO returns from these investments have thinned as investors worry about debt risk.
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As Gore has slowly turned his focus to climate change advocacy, his political portfolio has thinned.
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The crowds haven't thinned appreciably since the place opened in 2004, and you still can't reserve.
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The ranks of insurgents opposed to this agreement have been thinned by the fighting in Marawi.
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As night fell over Monrovia and the crowd thinned, officials counted the equivalent of $8,350 raised.
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Soon, though, police and soldiers blocked the entrances to the hospital and the crowds inside thinned.
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Alberto Giacometti's sculptures of thinned and elongated humans, resembling shadows at sundown, were briefly an inspiration.
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The market was thinned by a national holiday in Britain, which closed trading desks in London.
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Analysts said trading volumes were being thinned by the Christmas holiday, which could cause some volatility.
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Densely textured groundnut (peanut) soup has spicy heat and, thinned a bit, is also excellent cold.
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London copper eased from a ten-week high as holidays in China and Japan thinned trading.
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In the final stages, she thinned out textures so that the viola would always be audible.
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For the week, gold has already gained 1.9% in a trade thinned by the holiday season.
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For the week, gold has already gained 1.9% in a trade thinned by the holiday season.
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Whenever Neptune is involved, boundaries are thinned between what's real and what's just an idealized projection.
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Its spectral hair is handsomely thinned, and its sockless, loafered feet hover just above the floor.
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I think the crowd thinned out for the dinner — you know, it was the leaders, primarily.
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Those chemicals were phased out beginning in the 1980s because they thinned the Earth's ozone layer.
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Depending on landscape and precipitation, thinned areas shed 10-40% more water into streams, Mr Bales estimates.
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Whose blood has since thinned, and is more than probably on the way down that sloping line.
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The concrete barricades encasing public buildings like lugubrious tombstones have slowly come down, and checkpoints have thinned.
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The global ranks of "unbanked" adults thinned from 2.5bn, 49% of the total, to 2bn, just 38%.
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Volume thinned ahead of a long holiday weekend, with the market closed on Monday for Memorial Day.
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Because the parts of the Democratic herd that were thinned were largely the moderate and conservative members.
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After too long, they heard the boat start up, then the motor thinned and he was gone.
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They taste like how I imagine it would feel if my saliva was thinned-out Trix yogurt.
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The situation calmed down after a few hours without the violence worsening, and the crowds thinned out.
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The ranks of local philanthropists have thinned, and their pockets aren't as deep as they once were.
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But the rotation has been thinned and battered by injuries to the top-of-the-line starters.
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Other Gulf markets were mixed as the start of the religious holiday of Ramadan thinned trading volumes.
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A city built for 63 million, already thinned by white flight, saw its population dwindle to 700,000.
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As the memory of that shooting faded and local budgets tightened, their ranks thinned in many places.
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When movie roles thinned out, Ms. Malone turned to television, appearing in a wide range of series.
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Still, when a recession hits, likely within the next two years, the crowd will certainly be thinned.
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China has thinned its backlog of new drugs waiting for approval to 24002,22005 from 22017,000 in 2017.
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But prices ended steady at $6,214 a tonne, in a week where volume was thinned by holidays.
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The entire process starts with the making of a gold alloy that's fed into rollers and thinned out.
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Online shopping may have thinned the once-rampant Black Friday crowds, but Black Friday isn't going anywhere yet.
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That can leave a mosaic of thinned-out patches that can help halt the spread of larger fires.
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Another reason for small harvests today is a decreasing number of growers, their ranks thinned during the recession.
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If you've noticed that your office has thinned out since lunch, the Nats play at 1:9003 p.m.
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But by the midpoint of the eight episodes, the rewards have thinned out and annoyance has taken over.
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For many, the cost/benefit of this arrangement no longer makes sense, and the herd has thinned substantially.
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Chemotherapy gave him a "definitionless moonface," he said, and it coarsened his features and thinned his hair permanently.
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It could also further fragment a market already thinned out by the European Central Bank's asset purchase programme.
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To Manning, the early stages of hormone therapy were deeply fulfilling: her skin softened, her body hair thinned.
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This suggests that, in this area, the lithosphere has thinned almost to the point of complete break up.
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In holiday-thinned trade, euro zone inflation data was the main piece of economic data in investors' sights.
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While Ms. Yoncheva's tone has grown fuller and richer in recent seasons, Ms. Opolais's has thinned and paled.
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As the crowds have thinned, so have the purses, at least relative to what it costs to race.
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The crowd on the patio had thinned out during the halftime break, but the televisions were still blaring.
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She made it by pouring buckets of pigment, thinned with turpentine, down the canvas in many diaphanous layers.
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Bluhm worked with thinned oil or acrylic: Francis used gouache, acrylic, or watercolor; Jenkins preferred acrylic and watercolor.
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Volume thinned in the afternoon ahead of a long weekend, with financial markets closing for the Good Friday holiday.
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The Chinese data fueled gains in Japan's yen, which rallied to a three-week high in holiday-thinned trading.
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The Chinese data fuelled gains in Japan's yen, which rallied to a three-week high in holiday-thinned trading.
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E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were flat, with trade thinned by a holiday in U.S. markets.
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Toward evening, friends and family members began to say their goodbyes, and the crowd thinned and the plaza quieted.
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The crowd in Arizona appeared to agree: The Washington Post reports that the crowd thinned as Trump shrieked on.
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The morning was crisp and windless, and its light was Como light—pale, harsh, and thinned by early fog.
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And, because the mid-lengths are thinned out, it keeps the hair from being too heavy and hanging limp.
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Perhaps the most noticeable difference in Holzer is his prominent salt-and-pepper beard, which thinned out during radiation.
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The announced crowd of 35,193 at Nationals Park thinned out as the game dragged on and a drizzle began.
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Tenecteplase thinned his blood to save his heart, but it most likely had resulted in injury to his brain.
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Indeed, fire specialists say some forests in California would need to be thinned out before they undergo cultural burning.
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The wild horse herds need to be thinned for their own good lest they starve - so the argument goes.
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Its base is yogurt, only slightly thinned by water, its creaminess cut by cucumber and flecks of dried mint.
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Toss pappardelle in the mushroom-truffle mix, thinned with a little pasta water: Delicious & Sons, 6.35-ounce jars, deliciousandsons.
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Low commodity prices and record global stocks of crops like corn, soybeans and wheat have meanwhile thinned trading profits.
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Meanwhile, shares in broader Asia hovered near 18-month highs as trade thinned in the run-up to Christmas.
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The FTSE 100 edged 0.2% lower in holiday-thinned trade, as investors locked in profits from earlier this month.
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Since then, agriculture, logging, urban development and other human activities have thinned or wiped out these once-lush forests.
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The FTSE 100 edged 0.1% lower in holiday-thinned trade, as investors locked in profits from earlier this month.
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The protests were largely peaceful with riot police containing the crowds which have thinned over the past 8 days.
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The Badgers looked depleted, thinned by foul trouble, fatigued by the seemingly endless arms and legs of the Gators.
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But the cue sticks mean weare rubbed by light, smooth as wood, the lurk of smoke thinned to song.
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Aiming for Costache's idiom, I asked: Is it like high-bandwidth information versus a file that's compressed and thinned out?
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The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.51% by 0710 GMT, with trading volumes thinned out by a UK holiday.
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When we started four decades ago there were many governments which supported our efforts but their ranks have thinned out.
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Competition has been thinned out by companies burning VC cash and a bootstrapped, efficient company stands out from the crowd.
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As I got older and moved to New York, though, my hair thinned out and turned a dark, dirty blonde.
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E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were flat as trade was thinned by a holiday in U.S. markets.
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Photo: Brandon TauszikAs I made my way through the hills, traffic thinned out, as did my general sense of unease.
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Bond yields were a tad higher across the euro zone, although trade was thinned by a public holiday in Britain.
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The cows began giving out milk that was light on richness because the fat content thinned out, according to producers.
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Their slim ranks thinned by 21% in the ten years from 1981 and by 11% in the one after that.
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In the years since, the human waste at Davis has been untreated, thinned with water, and released into the sea.
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Loved ones who are all buoyancy, care, empathy, and concern are steadily worn down and thinned-out like seaside pebbles.
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But the closer we got the more things thinned out as only people with a boarding time were allowed in.
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Late last year, the company thinned out further by selling its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry assets to German company SUSE.
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On a Wednesday last January, a rare snowfall had thinned the vigil to a trio of beaming young white women.
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Despite the more optimistic projections by the state about hospitalization rates, the crowds outside of Elmhurst have not thinned out.
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The airports seeking Dolbeer's help worried that such disasters would soon become commonplace unless they thinned out their feathered ranks.
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Ape populations declined where human populations increased, near communities that consume apes as food, and where forests are thinned out.
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The Los Angeles Times reports price increases in recent years haven't thinned the throngs at Disneyland and nearby California Adventure Park.
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The news prompted holiday-thinned currency markets to rush to safe haven assets, with the Japanese Yen soaring after the announcement.
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These days, the ranks of such skilled practitioners of such arts have been thinned, with no new generation to replace them.
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He also thinned the hair at the top of my head for a bit more lift (something I desperately, desperately needed).
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Five times as much forest should be thinned every year, estimates Roger Bales, a hydrologist at the University of California, Merced.
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By the time that he, Ryan, and Bustos took the stage the crowd at the Steak Fry had noticeably thinned out.
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What it has done is thinned the blanket of fat that's been sitting around my middle since I was around 15.
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Hair has thinned and physiques have softened, but the aging competitors have survived the changing league while holding off Father Time.
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The build required a combination of paper and cloth, dipped in either thinned Elmer's glue or a water and flour mixture.
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But E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were flat as trade was thinned by a holiday in U.S. markets.
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The camp has thinned to fewer than 300 people, but law enforcement officers continue to maintain a presence in the area.
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But the ranks of protesters thinned over Wednesday night and police spokesman Dedi Praseyto said the last dispersed by 7 a.m.
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The Nuggets signed guard Nick Young on Monday to help add depth to a bench that has been thinned by injuries.
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A substantial drought has thinned harvest hopes for many soybean farmers in Argentina, which is the leading exporter of soybean products.
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Bunge has been grappling with a global grains glut that has dragged down crop prices and thinned margins for trading grains.
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I liked the opera best when Mr. Karchin's score calmed down, thinned out and depicted incidents with more mystery and subtlety.
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Their margins have thinned as food and feed companies see no urgency to buy, as supplies soar for their key ingredients.
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" Archival photographs of the park's glaciers over the past 50 to 80 years show that many have "retreated, thinned, or stagnated.
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He soon pushed his books aside and gave his full attention to Facebook while the crowd thinned out at the library.
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These are allowed to grow for a few years and are then thinned to encourage the best specimens to develop vigorously.
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The Florida Panhandle city's zero-tolerance policy has had the desired calming effect as the raucous college crowd has thinned out.
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The nose and eyes present as a cruciform, against grounds of vertical strokes in thinned colors that glow like stained glass.
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The deputy parks commissioner Alyssa Cobb Konon pointed out that following Sandy's saltwater drenching, the park's tree canopy had considerably thinned.
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Although the paint has been thinned, she prefers that it doesn't drip, which is one reason she works on the floor.
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Skirts pulled in close to the body, the natural waist crept ever upward, and the silhouette thinned to a slender column.
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China is expected to substantially increase pork imports this year as its domestic hog herd has been thinned by African swine fever.
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The herd has thinned over the past year, and even top names like Fitbit have struggled to keep their head above water.
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However, the ranks of foreign home buyers thinned considerably after the 2007 land licensing mandate, followed by the 2008 global financial crisis.
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Historically, naturally ignited wildfires were an important part of the Sierra ecosystem: They thinned forests to prevent the density we're currently seeing.
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U.S. homebuilders lost a little faith in their market in July, as foot traffic of potential buyers thinned and construction constraints continued.
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Yes, assimilation and smartphones—and, before them, legal crackdowns amid the AIDS crisis—have thinned the ranks of spots like The Club.
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Adolescents with a more "mature" network -- meaning, less grey matter -- actually show increased brain activity in their thinned-down regions, she observed.
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Traffic thinned during the 1990s when Iraq was under U.N. sanctions after Saddam Hussein's Kuwait invasion, as little was spent on maintenance.
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These days, the tablet herd has thinned a bit, and Microsoft has established itself as a maker of premium first-party hardware.
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After flourishing in the 1960s and 70s, American music festivals thinned out in the 1980s, before exploding once more in the 2000s.
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The Hebrew residents of Caricature Country, formerly numerous and amusing, have thinned out of late years, it is hard to say why.
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"[Ratchet] was always talking about fucking bitches and all that," Drakeo remembers, his voice thinned by a phone in Men's Central Jail.
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Against the yen, the was slightly higher at 101.99 yen in holiday-thinned trade, with Japanese markets closed for a public holiday.
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The volunteer universe that sprang up on Lesbos has thinned out and largely moved with most of the migrants to mainland Greece.
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He handily defeated a thinned-out primary field in the 2016 Ohio primary, but failed to win any other primary or caucus.
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Fiorina interjected, "I just have to say — " She suggested that Mr. Trump was afraid to debate Mr. Cruz if the field thinned.
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Blahnik's iconic pump illustrations show a sole thinned into nothingness, curving into a hyperfeminine arch, little triangular toe pointing down the runway.
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In transferring the tale from page to screen, Ms. Rozema has opened the story, even as she's thinned it in perplexing ways.
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The factory sales and other cost-cutting steps thinned Hasbro's work force to about a fifth the size of Mattel's 28,000 employees.
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As the county has, like other high-income suburbs around the country, become more Democratic-leaning, the Republican Party has thinned out.
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Most 10-year euro zone bond yields were 2903-5 bps higher on the day, with moves exacerbated by holiday-thinned trade.
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Soon the larger, national trains branched off and headed north, and the six tracks thinned to two, servicing the Circle Line alone.
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The image conveys the terror of seeing your own body as if it doesn't belong to you, thinned to a fragile construction.
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And after the protest there thinned out, dozens of people the police described as anarchists remained in the streets, clashing with officers.
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The large number of Democratic presidential candidates has not thinned the packs of the base, but has seemingly produced the opposite effect.
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It's lovely and calm, even though it's at best a thinned-out take on Paul Simon's "Graceland," or Vampire Weekend's first album.
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Amid a quiet day in holiday-thinned trading, investors had their eye on euro zone flash inflation figures, due at 1000 GMT.
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The rise of e-commerce has thinned the crowds of shoppers willing to brave a post-Thanksgiving hangover spent lugging around merchandise.
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A hand injury to Dinwiddie hurt a roster already thinned by the loss of LeVert, who could return soon, and Allen Crabbe.
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American buyers, who thinned out after the global real estate crisis of 0004, often "have previous history with Abruzzo," Mr. Purdie said.
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They had this really thinned out, middle range, drone-y kind of voice without any inflections, and that helped the zombie, psychedelic vibe.
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The animals' ranks have thinned dramatically in many African countries: Kenya's donkey population, for example, has fallen by half since 2009, to 900,000.
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They were monitoring areas that had been thinned to open up the canopy, exposed to controlled burns to remove ground growth, or both.
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With trading thinned by a holiday closure in London, European shares opened higher, boosted by energy stocks as well as encouraging earnings updates.
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The Democratic primary debates for September and October have significantly more strict qualifying thresholds, and the 2020 presidential field has thinned out considerably.
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As the Camp Fire has proven, these fires will tear through large landscapes, regardless of whether the area has been thinned or logged.
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As liquidity thinned ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, large currency options had an impact on the cash market as well.
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Ballinger is attempting the climb without oxygen, which is impressive — 97% of expeditions these days supplement the thinned Everest air with bottled oxygen.
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" But things get a little more complicated with "large, really thinned out earlobes," according to Khanna, which can "lose a lot of bulk.
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Even though rock music's importance faded and the magazine has thinned, Hagan makes a case for Wenner's lasting place in 20th-century history.
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Rising rents inexorably thinned the ranks, leaving the Strand the sole survivor of what had been one of New York's most distinctive neighborhoods.
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Some attendees tweeted that they had left the screening early and posted pictures of a thinned out cinema as the lights came on.
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The phalanx of lobbyists and activists who usually occupy the halls had thinned, but there were still some trying to push their causes.
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The resorts lining the beachfront eventually thinned out and gave way to a very different scene, one that hinted at what came before.
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Here, washes of thinned oil await further definition, and give up some of the secrets of Turner's process in the two finished works.
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U.S. Treasury yields were little changed on Thursday in holiday-thinned trading, while the last major auction of the year saw solid demand.
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With trade thinned by a holiday closure in London, European shares opened higher, boosted by energy stocks as well as encouraging earnings updates.
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The dollar eased 0.2 percent against the yen to 102.02 in holiday-thinned trading, as Japanese markets were closed for a public holiday.
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The dollar rose 0.2 percent to 113.635 yen in an otherwise Christmas-thinned market, having traded around 1.18673 yen ahead of Kuroda's news conference.
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In general, the herd of money-losing on-demand startups has thinned in the past year or so as venture capital purse strings tightened.
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The housing market has begun showing signs of cracking this year, while real estate brokers are saying that offers for homes have thinned out.
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Some plots are not thinned evenly, but rather by clear-cutting gaps with a diameter one or two times the height of surrounding trees.
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Traffic on the main road headed south had thinned to a trickle, however, after major jams on Tuesday when the evacuation order was given.
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As the crowd thinned in midmorning, reality stars supplanted news anchors on the televisions, and Ms. Murphy offered her color commentary on gym dynamics.
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TOKYO, May 1 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks were choppy in holiday-thinned trade on Tuesday, while Sony tumbled after the company issued a profit warning.
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U.S. shares were set to open flat during a session likely to be thinned by the Veterans Day holiday, with Treasury bond markets shuttered.
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David Bowie made music history with 'Bowie bond' Bowie's output thinned in the 240s and the 22016s, but he was no less envelope-pushing.
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So I put them on a regular grill over medium heat and basted them with a thinned-out barbecue sauce and cooked them crisp.
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Between the 2270s and 22018s, Taku attracted significant scientific interest because it grew while the glaciers around it, collectively called the Juneau Icefield, thinned.
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Other fuels such as local forest thinned woods or palm kernel shells from Indonesia and Malaysia would not make up the shortfall, he said.
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But as a result of the 2007-2008 recession, which caused an estimated 25 percent of construction jobs to vanish, their ranks have thinned.
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When I attended every show that came through town, I thinned my ability to recognize or care about what was going on around me.
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According to Growing Produce, a website geared toward American fruit growers, the tree is "finicky," with brittle wood, and needs to be thinned carefully.
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Working on the floor, she thinned her paint to the consistency of water, creating floods and eddies of color that soaked into the canvas.
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Milk products had been thinned with water for profit, and the melamine falsely boosted the milk's protein content so its dilution could escape detection.
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You can also save the pesto for other uses — a sandwich spread, thinned with more oil to make a dressing, the list goes on.
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In the heart of the neighborhood, many blocks were clogged with traffic or construction (or both), while farther west the street commerce thinned out.
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This hamo would be quickly scorched on one side and served with a lick of wasabi and puréed salt-cured plums thinned with dashi.
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If "Linda Vista" has been recalibrated since Chicago — the women's parts have thickened, Wheeler's monologues have thinned — it still participates, enthusiastically, in this tradition.
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The Mets (28-33) were built around their starting pitching, but injuries to Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz and Lugo had thinned the rotation considerably.
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The dollar was at 247.80 yen having briefly been as low as 45.993 late Friday, with trade further thinned by a holiday in Japan.
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Some 4.32.2900,815 contracts were traded, nearly three times the previous session's holiday-thinned volume which was at its lowest in more than four months.
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Trump has already thinned the ranks of high-profile Republican voices willing to challenge him on his lack of results and impulsive, autocratic behavior.
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A recent report by Bloomberg, for example, highlighted the internal corporate culture clash underway as Walmart's e-commerce investments impacted stores and thinned margins.
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But wariness remains that there could be a repeat of last January's "flash crash" when massive stop-loss selling swept through holiday-thinned markets.
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Over the past 15 years, the Leaf River caribou herd, which occupies the upper tip of Nunavik, has thinned to fewer than 200,000 individuals.
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And Mr. Trump will potentially face a thinned-out field of Republicans, in states that will once again test the strength of his campaign organization.
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The supportive cheers have thinned out, the fatigue has certainly set in, and if quitting was an option I can't say I wouldn't take it.
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Trading volumes have thinned, making prices more volatile, as many investors have given up on Chinese stocks since last summer, when shares crashed 40 percent.
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Such moves make it harder for bond funds to honor redemption commitments to investors, especially as liquidity in markets has already thinned in recent years.
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"While there's an appearance the market may have thinned, we see those who are players coming on very strong, and that's pan Asia," Cappellazzo said.
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As the pack of potential unicorns has thinned, VCs in particular have turned to unconventional deal structures, like the use of common and preferred shares.
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Like the role players who stepped up during his struggles earlier in the year, Bautista has taken up the mantle with the lineup thinned out.
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Through a mile, the pace thinned the ranks of front-running challengers, who did not include Nyquist, who was withdrawn weeks ago because of illness.
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The upper half of the painting is all sky, pale blue with wispy clouds, brushed on the canvas in many layers of thinned-down pigment.
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And though a number of excellent scholars of Russia emerged over the last 25 years, overall, the academic trends thinned the ranks of regional experts.
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ISIS's ranks have also been thinned by some defections, either to the Afghan government or to the Taliban, where many of them originated, he said.
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Doctors, lawyers, business executives and even technology columnists for The New York Times will have seen their ranks thinned by charming, attractive, all-knowing algorithms.
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The change includes a haircut as well, with a fuller crown and thinned ends that are making her heart-shaped face look longer and narrower.
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The White House is operating with a thinned-out staff caused by the partial government shutdown, now in its 24th day, and snowy Washington weather.
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An A.T.F. vehicle was parked on the street near Mr. Conditt's house, which was blocked off, though the official presence had thinned considerably since Wednesday.
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Treating his bleed would require surgery, but going to the operating room with recently thinned blood and a frail heart is a potentially fatal prescription.
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The crowd in the cavernous ballroom at the Shangri-La Hotel thinned out as one official after another spoke over the course of an hour.
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Recently her hair has thinned, but she has a shock of white up front that a friend's daughter has dyed with a streak of fuchsia.
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You may reach an answer in the negative if you drink the green liquid of plankton and raw pumpkin-seed milk thinned with yogurt whey.
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The forest had thinned out, and I could see how, if you traveled upriver, as Conrad had, you might imagine it closing in around you.
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The traffic bucked and lurched and eventually thinned, and then the revelers were hurtling up a highway somewhere, eating cucumber sandwiches and drinking sparkling wine.
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Such moves make it harder for bond funds to honour redemption commitments to investors, especially as liquidity in markets has already thinned in recent years.
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Whether Republican lose the House, the Senate, both, or neither, one thing is certain: The ranks of the not-quite-Trumpers will be thinned come January.
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Turns out, the unmanageable frizz I suffered from in the past stemmed from bad haircuts that thinned out and stripped my hair instead of texturizing it.
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Many of the currency pairs hugged recent ranges, as activity thinned out overnight with stock exchanges in the United States and Britain closed for market holidays.
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Authorities, however, have greatly thinned the ranks of such web destinations, taking down marketplaces like AlphaBay and Silk Road over the course of the past decade.
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In currency markets, the weak Chinese data fuelled some gains in Japan's yen, which rallied to a three-week high amid the country's holiday-thinned trading.
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Against the yen, the dollar edged up 0.2 percent to 101.41 yen in holiday-thinned trade, with Japanese markets closed on Thursday for a public holiday.
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Samsung pushed the screens even closer toward the edges and thinned out the bezels on all sides to achieve over 90 percent screen-to-body ratios.
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Second, trees living in the thinned-only forests were healthier overall due to reduced competition for resources and had larger supplies of resin available to them.
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Moderator Jesse Kornbluth (father to a daughter, he noted) wanted to know what Pfeiffer weighed in the film and how she thinned down to play Elvira.
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It thinned its ranks of middle managers at the Izhevsk factory in 2015, and diversified this year by buying companies that make motorboats and surveillance drones.
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As the crowd thinned that afternoon, some returned to the site of the February carnage to add their signs to makeshift memorials outside the school's perimeter.
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"With the adrenaline of battle, every once in a while, the mundane world falls away and the veil gets thinned between the present and the past."
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Logging has been more heavily restricted, as Bureau officials seek to bring back canopies that were thinned over many decades and to maintain old-growth trees.
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That was as good as it got, however, with sterling retreating against both the dollar and euro in trade thinned out by a U.S. public holiday.
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But with only 16623 women running publicly traded companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the departures of even a few have quickly thinned the ranks.
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Owing to Mr. O'Keeffe's acquaintanceship with the Rockefellers, the cafe had first dibs whenever the deer population was thinned out at the estate in Westchester County.
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I have worked for 12 years in bush-fire protection, modeling hazards and designing mitigation efforts like Asset Protection Zones (areas of thinned and cleared vegetation).
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They've just release the results of their investigation, which found that the solar eclipse thinned the charged particle-containing part of the upper atmosphere, called the ionosphere.
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Losses for other currencies were limited by a cautious return of risk appetite that weakened the U.S. dollar in a market thinned out the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
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And scientists have found that thick layers of blubber, a sign of health for Arctic mammals, have thinned on harp seals and minke whales in recent years.
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This would explain why the rift overlapped with a topographic valley—a place where the ice appeared to have thinned—in satellite images taken before the calving.
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Lenders have become more risk averse as their profit margins have thinned, brought on by the double whammy of lower rates and higher origination and servicing costs.
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Around 23,000 people marched in Vienna, according to estimates by the police and organizers, but sub-zero temperatures quickly thinned the crowd to a couple of hundred.
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The air was hot and breathless, and all around Yosemite, the drought was on full display: where waterfalls still fell, they had thinned from ribbons to threads.
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Those seven members who have voted to confirm more than half of Trump's nominees reflect the centrist flank, whose ranks were thinned in 2018 when former Sens.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares rose modestly on Tuesday, recovering further ground as geopolitical tensions eased in holiday-thinned trading, though falls among commodity-related stocks capped gains.
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Full-bodied notes thinned out into airy harmonics, bows drawn close to the bridge created metallic sighs, fingers slid up the fingerboard to evoke a swooping motion.
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In holiday-thinned trading, an index that tracks the U.S. dollar against six currencies was down 0.24 percent at 93.04 after slipping to its lowest since Dec.
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Dubai saw an unexpectedly lively chapter of this contest, carried out under the shadow of Gulf tensions and political turmoil in Saudi Arabia which thinned visible attendance.
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The crowd thinned out a bit around 6:40 when fans with Cavaliers tickets entered their arena for the ring ceremony, which was scheduled for 7 pm.
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The power of their irony was on their side, however, as Liverpool was up 2-0 and the crowds at Anfield thinned to the point of balding.
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As they finished their cocktails and pizzas, and as the crowd thinned after Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's departure, they were still basking in the afterglow of their encounter.
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With each subsequent injection the joy grew, the questions and fears thinned and the noise in my head about the wrongness of my body started to quiet.
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"It needs to be thinned out, all of it," says Lara, who received a week's classroom training, as he started his 12-hour shift in the forest.
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Now Mr. Kelly has thinned out his package of printouts so much that Mr. Trump plaintively asked a friend recently where The Daily Caller and Breitbart were.
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Mr. Trump, a former reality television star, may soon be working with a thinned-out cast in the middle of Season 2, well before the midterm elections.
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On Thursday, activists gave a taste of the protests planned on Friday, though the crowd thinned out after the president left for the dinner at Blenheim Palace.
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Fortunately it had thinned a bit by Thursday, and the skies are expected to clear up further as wind blows the smoke out over the Pacific Ocean.
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Police handling of the rest of the three-month occupation was far more measured, and protesters were not fully cleared until time and fatigue had thinned their ranks.
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"He said it made him look older and asked for it to be thinned out a bit to make it smoother and more jovial," Santos told The Guardian.
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As the supply-side structure has changed, the spread between sour and the historically far more expensive light, sweet crude has thinned and even flipped in some instances.
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It's not a guarantee for a rose, but when the first big cuts are being made and the herd is being thinned, it might just make the difference.
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In the decades that followed, a succession of rebellions, many of them led by the region's ethnic Uighurs, kept the Xibe garrisons busy and sometimes thinned their ranks.
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Logano led the final 2172 of 214 laps, a race-high 2110 overall, and controlled the action after a 226-car wreck on Lap 21 thinned the field.
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Earlier, futures indicated a higher open as global markets appeared to shake off Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels and trade thinned in the buildup to the Easter holiday.
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Took my carrot soup leftovers and thinned it out with some coconut milk and chicken stock, added veggies, noodles, and a soft-boiled egg for some breakfast ramen!
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"Our pipeline has thinned out as you might imagine, so we are looking to see what kind of other activity might be out there," said the first banker.
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Here, he uses a spray bottle that can accommodate attachable jars, each with different colors of thinned-down, Setasilk paint (about 25 percent paint and 75 percent water).
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Both have undergone rounds of management changes over the past few years and have thinned their ranks of commentators known to be sympathetic to the pro-democracy movement.
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On his own weekend grocery shopping trip in northern Virginia, Baker said he saw plenty of shoppers and thinned-out shelves of antibacterial hand soap and hand sanitizer.
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The new orders, working to comply with social distancing guidelines in a cramped work space, have thinned the press room as reporters sit with empty seats between them.
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The crowd of students in Washington Square Park covered just about a quarter of the park, thinned perhaps by the education department's threat, or by simple protest fatigue.
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Supplies for the Maiduguri market had thinned even before the cattle embargo as Boko Haram fighters burned fields and forced farmers out of their villages in recent years.
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Ranks have thinned as insurers grapple with major difficulties: Low interest rates, too few people surrendering their policies, and more customers than expected using their benefits, said Witt.
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Nattaq, a traditional Inuit hunter living in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, a remote part of northern Quebec, hit a patch of ice thinned by the warming climate near his home.
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As the bullpen slowly thinned every few innings, Robles knew he was the last option left before Mets Manager Terry Collins would have to resort to wacky options.
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The paint textures range from a thick stucco (used mostly for sheep) to a thinned-down Impressionism (thatches of strokes that denote either grassy banks or overflowing water).
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Prices of lead on the LME rallied by 3 percent, to the highest in a month on Thursday before holding steady on Friday in holiday-thinned Asian trade.
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Shipping and border inspection have largely continued apace despite thinned staff at agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Customs and Border Patrol, due to automated approval systems.
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Because "the digital world doesn't allow many competitors", in 113 years the ranks of banks worldwide could be thinned from thousands to dozens, which will need scale to survive.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares inched lower on Thursday with company news and macro events scarce in holiday-thinned trading, while Britain's FTSE 215.4 hovered just under a record high.
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So the old wounds have been hard to heal, and the herds flocking to the speedway on race mornings have been thinned by more than the loss of Davidson.
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But as Amie Parnes writes, the field has thinned by a few, as one-time potential candidates size up the competition and determine it's not their time (The Hill).
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New York trade will likely be thinned by the Veterans Day holiday and futures indicated the S&P2000 and Dow Jones flat to lower but Nasdaq futures are marginally.
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This quick response to extinguishing blazes meant that some woodlands that had been naturally thinned by fires every 10 years or so might go decades or more without them.
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The flight of millions of Venezuelans abroad in the past decade has included many talented medical professionals, and veteran tuberculosis specialists in Caracas say their ranks have thinned considerably.
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The pan-regional STOXX 600 index rose 0.4% by 0805 GMT, with trading volumes thinned out by the Whit Monday holiday in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and most Nordic countries.
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The result: The ranks of up-and-coming Democrats have been thinned, and there are fewer and more difficult races for the ones who are left to run on.
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The company is looking to sell or find a partner for the assets amid frustration over a persistent oversupply in the market that has thinned margins for making the biofuel.
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E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were flat as trade was thinned by a holiday in U.S. markets, while spreadbetters pointed to a firmer opening for European bourses.
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But Gravano would eventually testify against Gotti, leading to Gotti's 1992 conviction in five murders -- one of several major convictions that thinned the Mafia ranks in the 1980s and '90s.
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Toward the end of the concert, the audience thinned: People were heading for the surface and to the club at Hotel Forum, the main point of the festival for many.
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Next door to Tod's is a new building for Hugo Boss by the Japanese architect Norihiko Dan that resembles the turret of a castle, twisted and thinned into a listing chute.
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The so-called retail apocalypse, which last year saw the closure of nearly 2000,24 stores, thinned the ranks, but there are still nearly 215 million people who work in the industry.
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Oklahoma got no points from its bench, thinned out when the absence of starter Christian James forced Kameron McGusty into the starting lineup, along with the continued limitations of Jamuni McNeace.
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They say he offered to stay on as long as the company thinned out its efforts and focused on keep only a core group of people necessary to launch the FF91.
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The yen's gains on Thursday, exacerbated by a flash crash in holiday-thinned markets, came as investors looked for safety after stocks plunged and fears of a slowdown in China grew.
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The crowd quickly thinned, but a core of several hundred mostly young protesters in hard yellow helmets and protective gear, appeared unwilling to back down -- charging police lines and forming barricades.
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Over the last three months of the season, their skaters were thinned out by injuries as well, even after the addition of Tomas Tatar and Ryan Reaves at the trade deadline.
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Dubai's index edged down 0.2 percent but closed well off its low, with trade thinned as a heavy rainstorm in the United Arab Emirates deterred individual investors from visiting the exchange.
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The frontal region of the brain showed shrinkage, an area of the corpus callosum was thinned, and a membranous division between two sides of the brain was torn, among other signs.
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Trained first as a painter and then as a printmaker, Mullins spent his career developing exquisitely crafted paintings that, by carefully screenprinting thinned layers of paint, appear smooth and mechanically made.
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These days, the ranks of the European faithful have thinned, though, and many congregations — even the cash-flush Church of England — have paid for upkeep by clearing out their artistic assets.
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The years since Reeves's turn as blank-slate killing machine Neo had not been particularly kind to him, and his work had substantially thinned out around the start of the 2010s.
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Ingraham encouraged her viewers to fly as airports thinned out from CDC warnings over non-essential travel, while Fox & Friends brought on Donald Trump Jr. to weigh in on the coronavirus.
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The goal is to take vaginal tissue that has thinned with atrophy and make it thicker with better blood flow, which has the potential to decrease painful intercourse, Pinkerton said by email.
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Over the past decade, the US Forest Service has spent almost $3.4 billion trying to reduce fuel loads; in total, it thinned around 27,000 square miles of forest between 2001 and 2015.
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The news sparked a 'flash crash' in holiday-thinned currency markets as investors rushed to less risky assets, with the Japanese yen soaring against most major currencies in a matter of seconds.
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The euro notched its biggest weekly performance in more than two months last week as some hedge funds bought the single currency in holiday-thinned trades last week, triggering some stop losses.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Concern over Italy's banks and Britain's national election dominated holiday-thinned European financial markets on Monday, pushing stock markets lower after Asian share indices fell back off two-year highs.
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But its ranks are believed to have thinned in recent years, as TSA deployed additional screening practices prior to boarding an airplane and as the events of 9/11 grow more distant.
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Record global stocks of commodities such as corn, soybeans and wheat, have thinned margins and limited trading opportunities for ADM and rivals such as Bunge Ltd, which reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
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Surging online sales and a shift away from store shopping have thinned the crowds typically seen at stores on Thanksgiving evening and the day after, Black Friday, for the past two years.
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We filled plastic tumblers with water or soda and sat together in a booth; there were no waiters, but we sometimes stayed seated until the crowds around the trays thinned a little.
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Seeking experience, Lucius enlists when doctors are needed at the front, the pages devoted to his route there placing the reader deep into a very different world of expectations: The forest thinned.
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On Wednesday at Fort Bragg, as the hearing wound down for the afternoon, I lingered in my seat as the crowd thinned, then leaned against the bar separating me from the defense.
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Company cafeterias have at times been empty, as on a summer Friday, and restaurants closed by local authorities to prevent the virus's spread have thinned the options for food takeout or delivery.
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In that election, Republicans regained a majority in the House while the Senate ranks were thinned amid multiple retirements and the deaths of two congressional heavyweights, Democrats Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy.
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Equally distinctive is a process that allows no margin for error: Painted in thinned-down oil redolent of stain painting, the shapes build up in calligraphic brush strokes that can't be reworked.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling fell to a three-week low against the dollar on Monday, pulled down in holiday-thinned trade by nagging concern over the British government's hard line on Brexit talks.
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This serpentine style of time conflation is the droll setting for the piss-stain forms that have been extracted from particular localities and made to represent human beings, now thinned and diminished.
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Some areas were to be left as they were, some were to be hand-thinned with a focus on retaining rotting tree trunks, and some were to be aggressively masticated and then burned.
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A failure at the first attempt would spark weeks of "acrimonious posturing, brinkmanship, threats, people worrying about a leadership contest, general election, Jeremy Corbyn" just as liquidity thinned at year-end, he added.
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Major pop hits now tend to involve many songwriters, but the ranks of credited writers could be thinned to limit the number of people who could potentially license the work, publishing executives said.
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The generation that grew up with the original Garland album has "thinned out a bit," meaning that the crowd that shows up this time will be even further removed from the source material.
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Banks and central bankers have locked horns over why liquidity in secondary bond markets has thinned, with bankers blaming tougher regulation introduced by the FSB and others since the 2007-09 financial crisis.
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The news also sparked a 'flash crash' in holiday-thinned currency markets as investors rushed to less risky assets, with the Japanese yen soaring against most major currencies in a matter of seconds.
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Earlier reports, repeated for good measure in Gurman's piece, suggest a thinned body retaining multiple ports and gaining an OLED "dynamic function row" in place of the useful but somewhat anachronistic F-keys.
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As the end approached, the music settled down and thinned out, until there seemed to be only tinkling chimes, like the actual bird calls that had been part of the music all along.
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Asian shares snoozed near 18-month highs on Friday as trade thinned in the run-up to Christmas and investors seemed content to digest the chunky gains already made so far this month.
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The armed forces were still segregated, and there were almost no black combat units until troops thinned at the end of the war; black soldiers were instead relegated to labor and service units.
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Asian refining margins have thinned as crude prices LCOc22.3 surged amid output cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela supply disruptions and looming U.S. sanctions against major exporter Iran.
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LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - European shares drifted lower in early deals on Thursday with company news and macro events scarce in holiday-thinned trading, while Britain's FTSE 100 hovered just under a record high.
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However, when factoring in the weakness of the U.S. dollar and other currencies against the euro, fourth-quarter sales were down 2.3 percent year-on-year and the annual rise thinned to 0.8 percent.
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As my closet has thinned out over the last few weeks, I was embarrassed to realize just how impulsively I bought most of my wardrobe — and how little of it I actually wore regularly.
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"SoulMate's" salsa-inspired beats are a little too robotic to make the song a true booty banger, too tame to be be dropped, and topped with JT's thinned-out voice completely devoid of emotion.
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"In a holiday-thinned market, there are even fewer buyers today especially after we saw a sharp drop in the U.S. market," said Norihiro Fujito, senior investment strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
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Trade in some markets was thinned by the fact that Middle Eastern bourses will close for Eid al-Adha holidays during all or much of next week, raising risks for investors maintaining large positions.
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"The Thanksgiving Holiday today has thinned traders interest ... but the OPEC result next Wednesday is the only game in town for energy traders," said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA brokerages in Singapore.
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At first, he used a felt-tipped pen to transfer to canvas the details and the shapes he wanted; later, he switched to charcoal or thinned-down paint, applied rapidly and fluidly, not meticulously.
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The news sparked a 'flash crash' in holiday-thinned currency markets as growing concerns about the health of the global economy, particularly China, sent investors scurrying into the safe-haven of the Japanese currency.
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Indonesia, acting after the rupiah fell to three-year lows, raised interest rates for the fourth time since May European shares opened flat, though liquidity was severely thinned by a holiday in many countries.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea — The Winter Olympics close on Sunday, and Russia, with its sporting reputation battered by systematic doping and its competitive ranks thinned by banned athletes, has yet to win a gold medal.
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A small band of keyboards, bass, accordion, trumpet and guitar plays a thinned arrangement of Mr. Webber's score, and without all the big-orchestra plushness, some harmonically pungent details came through with striking clarity.
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While wariness remains that there could be a repeat of last January's "flash crash", when massive stop-loss selling swept through holiday-thinned markets, analysts said the Fed's liquidity injections had reduced the risk.
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Yet despite the thinned herd of reporters, the Internet slowed to a crawl during the event as hundreds struggled to stream the Trump event across town as the debate played over big-screen TVs.
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And they raise the question facing the remainder of his pontificate: With high-level opposition thinned out and the Benedict/John Paul II vision in eclipse, how far does the pope intend to push?
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A change in wind direction thinned the blanket of bushfire smoke over The Australian Golf Club that over the first two days of the tournament had players battling visibility problems, stinging eyes and coughs.
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Victor and Claudia Valadéz, postponing their trip back to Chula Vista for a few moments while the traffic thinned, wandered over with their 7-year-old son, Gael, who has his own season pass.
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While that lifted other risky assets such as commodities, concerns that the world's two biggest economies may be opening a new flank of their ongoing trade dispute weighed on sentiment in holiday-thinned trade.
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It fell out of favor in the Middle Ages, when it was believed that the forehead was the most prominent female feature; eyebrows were thinned or removed altogether so as not to steal the limelight.
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The nuances of tone Gold achieves are exquisite, trading on the equivalence in value of a brush heavy with thinned, watery ink, and stronger, darker ink on a drier brush that leaves a raspy trace.
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LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - European shares tumbled on Thursday, tracking more timid Wall Street trading as volumes thinned out for the Thanksgiving holiday, with British stocks leading losses as energy firm Centrica plummeted after results.
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And we were further shocked to learn that DDT accumulated in the bodies of bald eagles and thinned the shells of their eggs, leading to massive declines in eagles and other large (and charismatic) birds.
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NASHUA, New Hampshire — Before a winner had been declared in the nation's first primary of 2020, the already sparse crowd at Joe Biden's primary night party had thinned to a handful of staffers and volunteers.
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In their natural state, forests were regularly thinned by fire but the billions of dollars that the state spends aggressively fighting wildfires and restrictions on logging have allowed forests to accumulate an overload of vegetation.
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All groups provide support to their direct connections, so attracting the ire of the kingpin from the get-go — having not thinned out their support system — is akin to going head-on with a small army.
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Meanwhile, export demand from China has languished following hopeful signs earlier this year that the world's top pork consumer would ramp up U.S. pork purchases as its domestic herd has been thinned by African swine fever.
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"Clearly the Thanksgiving Holiday today has thinned traders interest, but given the general dollar rally overnight, it is clear that the OPEC result next Wednesday is the only game in town for energy traders," he added.
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Skidding regional equities markets and ongoing tensions in North Korea also added to the appeal of safe-haven sovereign debt, while liquidity in global markets has thinned this week due to Passover and Good Friday observances.
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Read more: Here's who will be onstage for tonight's Democratic debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times, what time it'll start, and how to watchThe stricter debate requirements have considerably thinned out the field.
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It's as if, through the act of rubbing the thinned colors into the canvas, he was rubbing the skin of the painting until it turned the color of dried blood, or a blue or violet bruise.
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Working with a half-dozen assistants, she applies layer upon layer of thinned enamel paint, which is daintily swept with brushes and patted with fingertips onto metal support surfaces using the "cobbled" Photoshopped images as guides.
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China's yuan CNY=CFXS strengthened through the day in holiday-thinned trading on Monday, reaching its highest level in over three months against the dollar at the official local close, following a much strengthened official midpoint.
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The dollar edged higher against the euro in holiday-thinned trading on Tuesday, ahead of the Christmas holiday, while the British pound looked set to snap a five-day streak of losses against the U.S. currency.
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Japan's Nikkei share average dipped in holiday-thinned trade on Wednesday while Nissan dropped after a top executive tasked with leading a recovery at the troubled automaker decided to resign just weeks into his new job.
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The China Financing Guarantee Association, a quasi-governmental body that regulates the guarantee companies (in other words, the issuers of the swaps), says it has 194 member institutions, though their ranks have thinned in recent years.
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Had I not taken excedrin migraine the day before the stroke I'm not so sure where I would be (has aspirin In it which thinned my blood) listen to your body, it can happen at any age.
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Environmental activists fear commercial shipping in the Arctic — now possible because climate change has thinned the ice for part of the year — will allow exploitation of a region that up to now has been a pristine wilderness.
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To reduce what Tim Murphy, a Forest Service ecologist, considers an excessive number of trees in forests, the service thinned 600 square miles of California's watershed in the year to October, up from 367 the previous year.
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The Longhorns' receiving corps could be thinned as quarterback-turned-receiver Jerrod Heard (116 catches, 23 yards, one TD) will get some practice at quarterback and Reggie Hemphill-Mapps (230 catches, 305 yards) has a sprained knee.
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Given that the news industry has thinned in recent years due to cuts and changes in the digital landscape, it's perhaps not surprising that many former journalists now find themselves on the other side of the fence.
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The crowd on the dancefloor had thinned out to the foolhardiest few when someone had the bright notion to pull out a black, plastic tarp from under the stage and hold it taught above the remaining dancers.
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Wisconsin, for instance, has thinned its ranks of government workers by some 5,000 since its Republican governor, Scott Walker, led a push to abrogate public workers' organizing rights — a political choice with profound economic and racial ramifications.
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That means you need to be near something geologically unusual: either thinned crust (so you're closer to the hot mantle), or features such as plate boundaries or volcanoes which can direct heat or magma toward the surface.
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What started as a massive early afternoon gallery thinned out to only a few hundred spectators by the 15th hole, though considerably more waited at the island-green par-three 17th for some end-of-day fireworks.
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R. and I didn't move as the crowd thinned further; we wouldn't stay, it was cold and the band wasn't very good, we would watch the fire a little longer and then go back to the hotel.
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But the piece eventually lost "appendages," to borrow Mr. Tao's word, and thinned out, quizzically, as if turning over the stage to the Bruckner symphony — which, in this context, seemed to pick up from Mr. Tao's music.
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The dollar held firm at start of holiday-thinned week on Monday after U.S. data pointed to solid economic growth while the British pound found some stability after having suffered its biggest weekly fall in three years.
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On the data front, U.S. homebuilder sentiment fell 1 point in July, as foot traffic of potential buyers thinned and construction constraints continued, according to the monthly reading of builder confidence from the National Association of Home Builders.
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COLOMBO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares closed at their weakest in more than eight months in typical year-end holiday-thinned trading on Tuesday, with turnover slumping to a near 33-month low as investors stayed away.
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Gold rose to a fresh 15-month peak above $1,300 an ounce on Monday in holiday-thinned trade as an early retreat in the dollar drove prices higher, though it later eased as the U.S. currency pared losses.
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In test recordings I made with the Buds, there was a fuzzy background noise that wasn't picked up by the distinctly average mic on my MacBook Pro, and my voice was thinned out and rendered with an echo.
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Trump appeared to be repeating a talking point that has been circulated by right-wing and alt-right figures this week, including conservative Fox News commentators that have suggested that FBI resources were thinned by the Russia probe.
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But having gained more than 4 percent against the Japanese currency in six days, the dollar stalled in markets thinned by the U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday, slipping as much as 0.8 percent, to 103.15 yen JPY=.
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Even the album artwork is almost a pastiche of the singer-songwriter records of yore, down to the thinned-out art-deco font and photograph of Collins, shaggy-haired and glum, peering out of a burnt orange halo.
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A steadier overall performance by European stock markets helped the dollar gain some ground on Monday against Europe's current safe havens of choice, the euro and the Swiss franc in a session thinned out by a U.S. holiday.
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But the purge has thinned the upper ranks of DHS's leadership, sparking concern among Republicans on Capitol Hill about its ability to carry out its sweeping missions on immigration, cybersecurity, disaster response and securing the nation's travel system.
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The crowd had thinned a bit since the race had begun—the MAGA-hatted bros seemed to have mostly retreated to the stands to swill more Natural Light and cheer on the rhythmic thrum of the race itself.
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The announcement came after the end of trading in London on Monday and, with trade thinned by the closure of U.S. markets for the Independence Day holiday, Tuesday was traders' first proper chance to react to the news.
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They follow in the footseps of Geneva-headquartered Zopco and London-based Concord Resources that were set up late last year, helping to stem a tide of departures that has thinned the ranks of the industry since 2011.
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The media scrum and police cars that had occupied this part of town thinned out, and police removed some of the black tarp they put up to keep people from peering into the property as they conducted their investigation.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar was little changed against other major currencies on Monday in holiday-thinned trading while the cost of swapping the yen for the dollar jumped as banks scrambled to raise dollars for the year-end period.
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Gold steadied in holiday-thinned trade on Monday, underpinned by a slide in crude oil prices to 12-year lows and persistent weakness in world stock markets, which prompted investors to seek assets considered a safe store of value.
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But the sibling showcase did not seem to be lost on the fans in the 10,000-seat arena, which was packed for the top-seeded Serena, and thinned out a bit by the time the ninth-seeded Venus arrived.
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She totally got why I wanted to cut six inches of hair off and then asked me if I wanted my hair thinned also — something I hadn't had done in a very long time, but is now necessary again.
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Aerial photos also revealed that Pando's crown steadily thinned as human activity grew, especially in the last half century, with the addition of campgrounds, cabins and a telephone line, which drew animals that graze on forest leaves and shoots.
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A Delhi government official blamed the pollution for lighter-than-usual traffic on already holiday-thinned streets, while a Delhi airport official said some domestic and international flights were delayed for up to two hours due to poor visibility.
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MARKET NEWS * The dollar held firm at start of holiday-thinned week on Monday after U.S. data pointed to solid economic growth while the British pound found some stability after having suffered its biggest weekly fall in three years.
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Going back to 2002, the primary means of attempting to control the borer's spread has been selective harvesting: dense stands of ash are thinned out with the hopes that the borer will not spread between the more isolated trees.
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The sharp improvements of the last couple of years could imply "modest slowing in jobs growth going forward, as the available supply of qualified workers has been thinned out," said Rick Rieder, a chief investment officer at BlackRock, in a note.
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As the sabbat known as Samhain (the O.G. Halloween) approaches, it was believed that the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead thinned, allowing spirits to walk among and play tricks on unassuming mortals.
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"I think with Trump, he can change his mind on something, in terms of a priority or something he has, or what he intends to do," Kumar said, offering a possible explanation for why the press briefing schedule has thinned out.
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With trade thinned out by the absence of U.S. markets for a holiday, China's yuan gained around half a percent CNH=D3 on a Reuters report of new moves to add to funding costs for foreign players speculating against the currency.
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Rignot said the crack in was able to propagate rapidly across part of Larsen C because the overall ice shelf has been retreating, and also thinned by at least 50 meters, or about 160 feet, in the past 20 years.
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After the Nazi porn, I had definitely hit my personal saturation point, and as the crowd had thinned out a bit since it was late, I put three of the metal-and-scratchy-red-fabric chairs together and tried to sleep.
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Opposition to the foul-mouthed celebrity builder has consolidated and hardened inside the Republican Party as its primary field has thinned; only Mr Trump, Mr Cruz and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, remain from a starting pack of 17 candidates.
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"PHMSA's findings indicate that the proximate or direct cause of the Line 901 failure was external corrosion that thinned the pipe wall to a level where it ruptured suddenly and released heavy crude oil," the agency said in its Thursday report.
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Speculators' net long dollar positions rose last week to the highest since January 2016, calculations by Reuters and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, show U.S. trade is likely to be thinned by the Veterans Day holiday, with Treasury bond markets shuttered.
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The budget had thinned due to tax cuts, and overcrowded schools were the result not of increased enrollment — in Los Angeles, enrollment was actually down from the late 1960s — but of a wave of school closures driven, yes, by tax cuts.
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But the Trump administration has significantly thinned the flow of refugees, and officials said this week that those from Syria and several other countries will be let in only after undergoing new vetting on top of the screening they already receive.
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"People have been scared and don't want to venture out," said Park Seon-gyu, 58, a taxi driver, pointing at roads where the traffic has considerably thinned since the city's first case of the coronavirus was reported a week ago.
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TOKYO, Dec 20.3 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average dipped in holiday-thinned trade on Wednesday while Nissan dropped after a top executive tasked with leading a recovery at the troubled automaker decided to resign just weeks into his new job.
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DUBAI, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Gulf stock markets mostly look set to consolidate on Sunday with trade thinned by the absence of foreign investors for Christmas holidays, but Saudi Arabia's bourse - particularly petrochemical stocks - may rise after the release of the 2017 state budget.
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The leadership change follows a turbulent period for the two-century-old company as profits in its core grain trading, handling and processing business thinned due to a global supply glut and a U.S.-China trade war that redrew global commodity flows.
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His body was so easy to conjure — limbs that had linked with mine at night, soft hands that I had grasped during the birth of our daughter, eyes that had remained piercing even as cancer thinned his face — and yet, impossible to hold.
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Traders also mulled the potential implications of Democrat Doug Jones' victory in the special U.S. Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday, which thinned the Republicans' Senate majority to 22-03, raising discussion about their ability to pass tax legislation before year-end.
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Traders also mulled the potential implications of Democrat Doug Jones' victory in the special U.S. Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday, which thinned the Republicans' Senate majority to 51-49, raising discussion about their ability to pass tax legislation before year-end.
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Baldomero Toledo, who everybody calls Baldo—an unfortunate nickname as his hairline has thinned over time—told me that before PRO, refs would get together only twice a year, and when they did, they'd receive only infrequent and inconsistent messages from the league.
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Mr. Feldman's coverage has included reports about viral moments like students at an all-girls Catholic school who posted on social media about playing swastika beer pong and an analysis of how the line between alt-right and neo-Nazi has thinned.
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Keuchel had cause to reconsider on Tuesday night when the scorching 103-degree temperature — a record for a World Series game — greeted the start of Game 1 and thinned the usually thick marine air that rolls into Chavez Ravine in the evening.
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As the Republican Party's moderates thinned out, few Republicans strayed from the gun-rights line, and Democrats in competitive regions deliberately avoided making guns central, fearing that it was far more of a voting issue for gun advocates than gun control supporters.
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As the field thinned and candidates of color such as U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro dropped out, Booker was critical of the Democratic National Committee for fashioning debate rules he said kept diverse candidates from the stage.
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There is no Hope Hicks anymore, no Rob Porter, no Gary Cohn, no H. R. McMaster: The ranks of people who either gave Trump a sense of comfort and stability or sought to steer him away from his most destructive impulses have thinned.
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The dollar rose against Japanese yen on Thursday as optimism around easing trade tensions between the United States and China sapped demand for the safe-haven currencies, even as the holiday-thinned trading kept large moves in the FX market in check.
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But I resisted (not today, Satan!), and scrounged: An egg, a can of tomato paste thinned to a sauce, a handful of frozen spinach, and the last of a tub of feta turned into a shakshuka, albeit of the sad-trombone variety.
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But most offered a different version: restaurants so understaffed they could barely keep up; having their hours cut so their employer would not be required to provide insurance under the Affordable Care Act; and being sent home midshift if the crowds thinned.
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In addition, the ranks of Cuban professionals working in the South American country have thinned in recent years, analysts say, and the relationship between Mr. Maduro and the current Cuban leadership is not nearly as warm as the friendship between their predecessors.
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Its ranks of active soldiers and capos had been thinned by convictions and defections, and the organization was damaged by the ability of the government to blunt its gambling and loan-sharking operations and loosen its hold on construction and restaurant workers' unions.
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Asia trading had been thinned by holidays in Japan and China but Hong Kong and Korea's stocks gained after CNBC reported the U.S. and China could announce a long-awaited trade deal by May 10, as Chinese Vice Premier Liu He heads to Washington.
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Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky rattled off a lengthy list of investments from retail in India to drones and artificial intelligence on the company's earnings conference call on Thursday, in an attempt to explain why its operating profit margin had thinned in North America.
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The crowd in front of the stage had thinned out (earlier in the evening, you could barely move in the pit) and a stream of people were walking out of the building, many of them huddled together and physically holding onto friends and family.
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Those five players would emerge as key members of one of the most celebrated draft classes in league history — a class that would produce nine All-Stars — and they are the only five who remain from a fraternity that has thinned with each passing season.
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Gradually, from the mid-1980s onward, Mr. Martins thinned his rehearsal staff of most figures whose Balanchine experience surpassed his own; even when rare ballets were revived that could have profited from their insights, he seldom invited such alumni back to work with the company.
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She applied this to the processes of art-making: Frankenthaler defied rules about painting as well as printmaking, most consequentially when she thinned her paint with turpentine and poured it directly onto raw canvas, in a manner that radically redirected so-called Color Field abstraction.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's purge of its military since a botched coup in July has cut its armed forces by a third, the Council of Europe said on Monday, after NATO raised concerns that Turkey's response to the failed coup has worryingly thinned its forces.
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On a recent afternoon, as the midday heat thinned the sidewalk crowds to a trickle, bored shopkeepers watched Chinese films on their phones while their Senegalese workers dusted the shelves and chatted with one another in Wolof, the lingua franca, which few Chinese understand.
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In this grisaille painting, which is largely made of neutral grays and measures around three by five inches (the size of note card), Balke does not apply paint so much as wipe away areas of thinned washes, achieving effects we might associate with film emulsion.
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TRADE HOPES Asia trading had been thinned by holidays in Japan and China but Hong Kong and Korea's stocks gained after CNBC reported the U.S. and China could announce a long-awaited trade deal by May 10, as Chinese Vice Premier Liu He heads to Washington.
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Bunge is one of the "ABCD" quartet of global grain merchants, which include ADM, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co. As profits in grain trading have thinned, the companies have been cutting costs and expanding into higher-margin businesses such as food ingredients and specialty oils.
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The party lasted past midnight, though it thinned noticeably after Musk's remarks at 9 PM. The cover band breezed through an instrumental version of "Creep," a slowed down version of "Gin and Juice," and, at one point, the frontman used an iPhone as a voice modulator.
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The news sparked a 'flash crash' in holiday-thinned currency markets as growing concerns about the health of the global economy, particularly in China, sent investors scurrying into the safe-haven of the Japanese yen, which was poised for its biggest daily rise in 20.148 months.
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"Our profit has thinned to the point where I don't think any more drop could be sustainable," said Yu Zhihao, who runs a wood wholesale business in China's northeastern port city of Tianjin and has seen his gross margins contract by a quarter in the past year.
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Then make like my friend Tahyra and add a little thinned-out molasses to the buttermilk brine for the final 30 minutes or so before you cook, which does a great deal more than you may think to promote both meat-sweetness and a golden crust.
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Or, you could make a BLT salad as they used to do at the original Watershed restaurant in Decatur, Ga.: iceberg lettuce, good thick-cut bacon, tomatoes and butter-toasted Pullman bread pulled into chunks and tossed with homemade mayonnaise thinned with a little buttermilk. Boom.
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I just cooked: chunks of goat simmered with mango chutney, rice wine, soy sauce and red-pepper sauce; ground beef chili with peanut butter and smoked paprika; canned duck confit with duck-fat roasted potatoes; roasted cauliflower in a cheese sauce I thinned out with beer.
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But in recent years, the deaths of owners like Ralph Wilson of the Buffalo Bills (212) and Bud Adams of the Titans (21.4), who used to be the Houston Oilers, have thinned the ranks of men who owned their clubs for many decades, if not from their inceptions.
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Remaining at his Florida estate for the entire week, Trump's views on the matter are likely to be reinforced by the cadre of outside advisers and friends who populate his private Mar-a-Lago club, though the winter crowds have thinned as the Palm Beach season winds down.
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The avocado boom has caused environmental damage — some of Michoacán's pine forests have been thinned out for avocado orchards — but it has been good for Americans gorging on guacamole in wintertime and Mexican farmers fending off the urge to join the drug trade or immigrate to the United States.
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On the other hand, if you like the idea of a thinned-down tracking solution and want to give DuckDuckGo's a shot, search for the plugins/extensions/add-ons to your favorite browser (assuming it's either Chrome, Firefox or Safari) or on mobile just snag DuckDuckGo's standalone browser.
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But Trump's election pushed him into the limelight: By last spring, the president had already burned through his traditional foreign policy advisers (Tillerson, McMaster, Mattis) and alienated his more bellicose ones (Bannon, Bolton); the remaining staff on the National Security Council were demoralized, their ranks thinned in successive purges.
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There may be no more amazing experience than to be in New York City on a day such as this one, the populace thinned by decent employers who allow workers to bridge the weekend and tomorrow's federal holiday, the maddening subways barely full, the traffic lightly threading Midtown's streets.
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By the end of that night, the traffic had thinned, he was virtually alone in the office, and he had determined that the header metadata didn't actually match other clues in the Olympic Destroyer code itself; the malware hadn't been written with the programming tools that the header implied.
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Individuals and companies that may suddenly find themselves on an expanded blacklist that had been thinned out under the original agreement could only add their voices to the anti-agreement forces -- new pressure for Iran itself to certify that these new sanctions effectively render the agreement null and void.
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A corollary, often unstated but understood by those doing the patrols, was that any group of Afghans willing to face the Marines head to head would gradually be thinned, while every seven months the Americans, bloodied and made jumpy by firefights and bombs, would be replaced with fresh troops.
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The huge infrastructure shift has also, unsurprisingly, introduced early bugs and issues: a small selection of content has gone missing, some subscribers are reporting audio / video sync issues, and WWE has thinned out its list of supported devices, leaving behind Blu-ray players, older TVs, and even Amazon's Fire tablets.
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We bought a little less than a pound of barbecued brisket at Hometown Bar-B-Que the other evening, then cut it into this easy recipe for fried rice, augmented by a drizzle of toasted sesame oil and a couple of tablespoons of Korean red-pepper paste thinned out with mirin.
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Even with a near-inexhaustible supply of music stacked up, the odds are that we'll end up in murkier territory with his work sooner or later—listening to thinned-out "ultra-deluxe" box-sets of remastered ephemera, flipping through coffee table books of photos he wouldn't have wanted anyone to see.
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And yet the daily press in New York, the mirror that should reflect and the voice that should express that variety, has itself lost much of the richness that goes with mixture, has been thinned out to the point where only two morning newspapers exist and only one in the afternoon.
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In much of that late work, there is a slightly thinned atmosphere, the prose a little less rich and hospitable than previously, the characters less full or persuasive, a general sense of dimmed surplus—but not in Edna O'Brien's astonishing new novel, "The Little Red Chairs" (Little, Brown), her seventeenth.
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Even the first sweeping tobacco legislation, 2009's Tobacco Control Act that restricted new products, banned cigarette flavors and set up FDA review, has been snidely called the "Marlboro Monopoly Act" by critics who said it thinned the market out and allowed Philip Morris — now part of Altria — to flourish.
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COLOMBO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares edged up on Friday, snapping eight straight sessions of falls and moving away from a more than eight-month closing low hit in the previous session, while turnover was low in holiday-thinned trade as investors stayed away from markets ahead of the Christmas weekend.
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The Montecito Fire Protection District works with residents to reduce vegetative fuels along roadsides, create "fuel breaks" — essentially areas where native shrubs have been thinned or removed — at strategic locations on private property, and harden homes against embers by putting screens over vents and replacing siding and roofs with less flammable materials.
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That meant the crowd had thinned significantly from the dozens who attended her earlier results watch party, but those who stayed until the early morning saw a special sight: a room of largely Arab-American immigrants emotionally celebrating an American democracy that has, in their view, been hostile to their existence and identity.
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" Mr. McMillan said part of the problem is traffic; whereas Saturdays used to be the day when visitors poured into galleries, now crowds on that and other days have noticeably thinned, a decline he attributes to art buying through social media as well as the fatigue of "an art fair every month.
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S. market open; new byline; previous LONDON) By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK, Dec 24 (Reuters) - The dollar edged higher against the euro in holiday-thinned trading on Tuesday, ahead of the Christmas holiday, while the British pound looked set to snap a five-day streak of losses against the U.S. currency.
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Britain benefited from the inclusion for the first time in Rio not only of rugby sevens (in which it picked up a silver medal) but also of golf, where Justin Rose won in a field thinned by the absence of several of the world's top players who stayed away for fear of the Zika virus.
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While the audience of journalists was thinned last week, as of today, people at the podium were still tripping over each other, all were touching the podium without any regard to the potential for transmission that way, and Trump acted bothered rather than concerned when someone reminded him to stand away from the speaker.
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The boards had been underneath the dome when it was in her studio, and they soaked up the thinned acrylic as Argote painted the muslin circles on top of it, the excess color pouring down the sides to the floor, transforming the sheets of Ram Board into a set of Helen Frankenthaler-like stain paintings.
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S. market open; new byline; previous TOKYO) NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against Japanese yen on Thursday as optimism around easing trade tensions between the United States and China sapped demand for the safe-haven currencies, even as the holiday-thinned trading kept large moves in the FX market in check.
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Farther north, where the forest thinned, there were macaques, mean little creatures with flushed faces and disconcertingly human noses that walked on all fours as a bear cub might, but here, in its thickest section, there was nothing: The eye and ear searched and searched, but nothing was able to disrupt the dominance of the sugi themselves.
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A common tern clipped overhead, translucent supple wing beats over a river crowded with traffic, and something about its flight made me think that it was flying under clouds, but there were no clouds, there were no clouds anywhere and had not been all day, and the sky was the stretched, varnished perfection of linseed-thinned oils.
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My own faith may be thinned by a skeptic nature, but two recent books, "The Devoted," by Blair Hurley, and "The World Is a Narrow Bridge," by Aaron Thier, reminded me why I once believed in God — a hopeful, aching desire that, despite all my flaws, life would turn out O.K. But as each of these captivating novels demonstrates, reassurance is a slippery creature.
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The lawsuit and Mr. Hernandez's case proceed against a backdrop of higher-profile public events like the killing of Eric Garner, the scandals that thinned the upper ranks of the police and the release of the United States Justice Department's Ferguson Report, which highlighted the way that city in Missouri used fines and penalties as a source of revenue and made its police into armed tax collectors preying mostly on nonwhite citizens.
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He then roasted it on a slab of oak wood, dribbled it with grapeseed oil and wild-fennel-frond powder, and added a drizzle of dried milkweed pods cooked in fresh birch sap, which he'd mashed in a stone bowl with some rutabaga starch, and a second drizzle that he called burnt-corn sauce, made from liquefied kernels that he'd scraped off the cob onto a stone, dried, then thinned out with sycamore sap.
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S. trade war, Brexit, Fed meeting * U.S. tariffs on $21.3 bln Chinese imports came into effect Monday * MSCI ex-Japan falls, E-Minis for U.S. stocks a tad weaker By Swati Pandey SYDNEY, Sept 272.10 (Reuters) - Asian shares stumbled in holiday-thinned trading on Monday as China's decision to cancel talks with the United States sparked fears of a protracted trade war, while oil rallied as Saudi Arabia ruled out increasing supplies to cool crude prices.
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S. trade war, Brexit, Fed meeting * U.S. tariffs on $294.22 bln Chinese imports come into effect Monday * Safe haven yen ticks up, Aussie slips, Sterling at 79.743-279.74/270 wk lows By Swati Pandey SYDNEY, Sept 271.48 (Reuters) - The safe haven yen gained on Monday in holiday-thinned trading as China cancelled upcoming tariff talks with the United States, ratcheting up tensions while oil prices jumped after top producers including Russia ruled out boosting crude output.
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Not that "Mountains and Sea," in which Frankenthaler suffused the canvas's fibers with oil paint thinned to the consistency of watercolor, would be any less of a personal breakthrough if it weren't hijacked by a predetermined reductionist narrative — but it is useful to keep in mind the paradox that, in the context of the time, the "possible" was envisioned as a narrowing of one's sights (towards an ideal of flatness) rather than a cracking-open of the pictorial imagination.
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So: warmed pitas spread thickly with the hummus, along with slices of eggplant I fried off in a big pan, eggs I cooked for 5 and a half minutes and would again closer to sea level (up high in the mountains, I think they would have preferred 6 minutes) and a chopped salad of tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley and Peppadew peppers over the top, everything adorned with hot sauce and some yogurt I thinned out with lemon juice and good olive oil.
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