• Shaped like a spinning top, it moves at more than thirteen thousand miles an hour.

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  • The "gasing" in the title refers to a spinning top popular on the Malaysian east coast.

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  • Diana Damrau is a stunning Gilda, her soprano blooming with clarity and warmth, the floating and spinning notes on the top the embodiment of both her innocence and her awakening passion.

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  • To make it work, the director must keep the top of verbal virtuosity spinning at all times, which can leave the viewer exhausted.

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  • Over the past few years, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Intel have all hired former top FTC staffers, spinning the revolving door that fuels the growth of lobbying.

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  • But Wales prefer the option of their four sides entering a money-spinning, revamped Powergen Cup alongside the top 12 English teams.

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  • The National Union of Students said the government was "attempting to sell top-up fees to students by spinning a line that being in debt is acceptable".

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  • When the Siegels agreed to be filmed, they were sitting on top of a world that promised to keep spinning at the same giddy rate.

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  • For the first approach, he shapes a wettened cone of clay on a fast-spinning wheel, gradually turning a small dimple in the top into a bowl shape, which he smooths with a deerskin cloth and releases from its base with one quick draw of a taut wire.

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  • Each year U.S. electric utilities waste tens of billions of cubic feet of natural gas on "spinning reserves, " for example, generators that are running below top efficiency so they can supply electricity on a moment's notice.

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  • The emergence of a "civilian channel" to the top has sent the tried-and-true system of internal patronage spinning.

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  • " Even the barren Moon is essential: "Without the Moon's steadying influence, the Earth would wobble like a dying top.... The Moon's steady gravitational influence keeps the Earth spinning at the right speed and angle to provide the sort of stability necessary for the long and successful development of life.

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