• Still, there's a sense of fatigue in the scenes that don't involve high-tensile webs and high-tension suspense.

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  • Tea Petrovic's "Shoe prototypes" are high-tension architectural structures, cut and wired, that look like Calders for the foot.

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  • But their trunks took the brunt of the shock from the high-tension wire.

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  • But the request to hold off the change comes after several high-tension days at NYSE and growing concerns among traders that the initiation of Reg NMS today will jam up communications among exchanges.

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  • Whoever thought of appropriating the word for the ugly metal-lattice structures that carry high-tension power lines across the countryside was therefore guilty of both a public-relations triumph and an act of etymological vandalism.

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  • Internationally, the DPRK maintains a high-tension position.

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  • Directed with high-tension skill by Antoine Fuqua.

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  • Integrated into the already distinctive nature of the Krug style--all base wines fermented in small oak casks, the finished wines aging for at least six years before release--it creates champagne as high-wire-act, a balanced tension between a dry, taut crispness and a mellow, juicy, full-flavored fruitiness.

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  • He suggested the study could explain why there is a high level of normal-tension glaucoma in eastern Asia.

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  • We still work throughout central Haiti but have also worked in seven other countries, pursuing, along with thousands of others, two goals in tension: high-quality health care for the patient in front of us, but thinking, whenever possible, of the tens of millions more who need the same services.

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  • Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.

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  • This is old school stealth - creeping around with high tension and high stakes.

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  • The challenge is that the tension in this high-wire storyline is that is that the plot line must continue moving in a gracefully upward arc.

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  • Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling -- a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension -- becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.

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  • It could also mean clearing of forest and blasting of mountainsides to rig high tension power lines in once-picturesque environments.

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  • If tension still remains high, use the hands-down gesture to dampen it.

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  • Tension was high during district elections in July - won by Mr Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front party - and the latest uprising is another indication that little has been done to heal the wounds inflicted on the country by years of regional and political conflict.

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  • The ramming-sinking on Saturday comes at a time of high tension on the Korean peninsula.

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  • In modern times, we deny the tension, often choosing the self-righteous high horse on one side or the other and color coding our decisions according to partisan loyalties that both belong to Hermes.

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  • But by announcing Egypt's nuclear-power drive at a party conference, during a period of high regional tension over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the younger Mubarak was clearly staking out a more assertive role, both for himself and for Egypt.

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