• After a quick wash and brush-up at the hotel, I headed to the nearest bus stop.

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  • There are stars to brush up against--Jennifer Lopez is here, and so are Sting and the cast of Lost.

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  • If the money being raised by Ms. Sebelius is being spent to do an end-run around Congress, then the Obama administration had better brush up on its Iran-Contra history.

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  • Through twice-a-week training where salesfolk brush up on generating leads, closing deals and mastering the intricacies of the machines--their own and those of competitors.

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  • How might even one of these four lessons help you brush up your problem-solving skills?

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  • The remaining half of the country's goats, which are bred and raised for other purposes, including work as brush-clearers, can end up behind the butcher glass.

    WSJ: Get Your Goat On

  • It could also help douse anti-Net brush fires that have sprung up at state and county levels in the months since the bill was signed.

    CNN: Free Speech On The Net At The Supreme Court

  • Some pilots, however, may soon have to brush up on their customary airborne banter--they'll more likely be pointing out whole continents or even the Great Wall of China.

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  • Projects which have already been supported by the University Challenge and Science Enterprise Challenge include a sewer robot - resembling a giant, jointed brush - developed by Durham Pipeline Technology, set up by Durham University.

    BBC: pipe cleaner

  • The allusion-mongering soars only when the full-throated Klingons played by David Warner and Christopher Plummer brush up their Shakespeare over dinner with Kirk and crew.

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  • In March, they added BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel which is a digital TV channel broadcasting Gaelic programming daily from 17:00-23:30, in case you want to brush up on your Gaelic.

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  • We might've walked up and down the streets of Boston-Edison and Brush Park to appreciate the glorious old houses, or the sidewalks of Lafayette Park to see the more modern Ludwig Mies van der Rohe homes.

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  • Brush points out that the academic research shows that education is correlated with start-up success.

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  • Microsoft is trying to brush up its image during what may be the most perilous period of its 25-year history.

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  • Given a choice between an exhibit of German Expressionist paintings and a hike up some soul-stirring hill, I'll take the thick brush strokes and green faces every time.

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  • Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".

    BBC: Weather talk: Is there a way to make it interesting?

  • We can hope we just have a brush with one of these bio-eco-cyber-socio-quarkish blowouts, learn to pick up the pieces, and invest in rebuilding. (Think REITS, big construction firms such as Fluor , plus canned goods, bottled water and ammo.) The other choice is to privatize the solar system, pronto.

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  • During the three-hour climb up rocky switchbacks to the pass, we stomp through several steep spots blanketed in knee-deep snow and ice. (You really feel those 30 pounds shifting around on your back as you try to maintain your balance.) We're forced to detour around one switchback and shimmy up a slick, steep incline of green brush, holding on to plants for leverage--and praying for solid foot positions.

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  • Papa has an idea they would make good deer-hunting ponies, beign hardy and small and able to keep up with the dogs through the brush.

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