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There are, however, a few things that you can do to help the deal close quickly and avoid getting stuck in the legal abyss.

Scientifically speaking, it is the acme of absurdity to talk of a man defying the law of gravitation when he lifts his arm. Huxley, Thomas H.

No diplomatic pressure was put upon Vienna, which under the aegis of Berlin was allowed to go to any lengths against Servia. University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

Animal studies suggest that aerobic training also results in the generation of new blood vessels, which has been linked to improved learning and memory. Seattle Times (Oct 17, 2011)

Time trial bicycles are also scrutinized for compliance with complex aerodynamic regulations. New York Times (Jun 5, 2010)

Spielberg is sacrificing aesthetics in his intense desire to sequester the harsh material cinematically. Slate (Jan 30, 2012)

Many took it for granted that Monsters is an allegory about immigration, but this idea hadn't occurred to the director.

In contrast, many food allergies are outgrown by adulthood, though nut, fish and shellfish allergies tend to persist throughout life. Washington Post (Jan 23, 2012)

Wang and colleagues carried out memory tests on people diagnosed with amnesia, who had known damage to the perirhinal cortex or other brain areas.

The government will cover the lost revenue by increasing the planned levy on Italians who took advantage of previous amnesties on tax evasion.

Obama was inheriting two botched wars, an amorphous and ever-present terrorist threat, and the worst economic crisis in decades. Newsweek (Jan 23, 2010)

Detectives were traveling through thick brush on an amphibious vehicle, Mr. Dormer added, before noticing “the skeletal remains lying on the surface of the ground.” New York Times (Dec 14, 2011)

An absolute silence had enveloped the entire amphitheater as every observer of this tense drama strained his eyes to catch the impending action. Browne, Howard

Very few other contemporary concepts have so well integrated smart phones and video screens into the Elizabethan prose while somehow preventing jarring anachronisms. Chicago Tribune (Mar 18, 2011)

They pumped their legs on special exercise bikes while hooked to computers that monitor anaerobic conditioning. Seattle Times (Aug 2, 2011)

Physically, they show disturbances of sensation which vary from analgesia to hypesthesia. MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)

From this perspective, test scores are viewed as analogous to the way a business looks at profits. New York Times (Jan 25, 2012)

The cigarette analogy works on another level: Remember how smoking bans started when advocates linked second-hand smoke exposure to unfair working conditions? Forbes (Jan 31, 2012)

They had the students solve problems that involved both analytic thinking and creative thinking. Forbes (Jan 20, 2012)

In the study he led, researchers analyzed 12 sets of standardized test scores starting in 1960 and ending in 2007. New York Times (Feb 10, 2012)

Some men, looking only at the faults and tyrannies of government, have said: "Anarchy is better." Ingersoll, Robert Green

Foreigners may find that some practices are anathema to their usual customs. Nature (Jan 25, 2012)

He tore his clothes, and anathematized the tongue that spoke last. Various

Mosier said he was picked on in high school and college for adopting an androgynous appearance. New York Times (Aug 5, 2011)

It is done with topical anesthetic cream, and there is usually no bleeding. New York Times (Jan 30, 2012)

As Jews, moreover, they had inherited belief in angelic agency, and divine apparitions. Cassels, Walter Richard

But legislators and staff members who spoke on condition of anonymity said the governor began having doubts about the legislation last weekend. Seattle Times (Feb 25, 2012)

Last month a federal judge in Seattle ordered the lawsuit dismissed, saying she had no grounds to proceed with an anonymous complaint. Washington Post (Jan 7, 2012)

Some violent antagonism must have been aroused to prevent the psychic process in question from reaching consciousness, and it therefore remained unconscious. Freud, Sigmund

He squared up at an imaginary antagonist and delivered a deadly blow in the air. Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Tennyson, in short, has shown that science and poetry, so far from being antagonistic, must for ever advance side by side. Various

The book is an anthology of ideas by various experts on innovations taking place in college football. New York Times (Dec 2, 2011)

adage, axiom, maxim, saw, aphorism, byword, motto, saying, apothegm, dictum, precept, truism. Fernald, James Champlin

He had a strong faith in destiny, was somewhat addicted to astrology, and dreaded signs in the heavens. Schlegel, Friedrich

He left high school at the ripe old age of eight and has been attending college-level advanced astrophysics classes ever since.

He is glad when he sees men busy fishing, planting, and hunting, and engaged in all manner of bucolic occupations. Vondel, Joost van den

The bowels should be kept open by some mild catharsis, as castor oil or a pill of aloes. Anonymous

Letting himself be verbally assaulted proved cathartic to voters.

Others brand him a slippery demagogue set on exploiting old grievances between Scotland and England.

Scientists are warning of potential damage to ecosystems' "resilience".

Maybe we need less hyperopia and more myopia in public policy.

So, time and again, myopic policies triumph over crucial long-term economic measures. New York Times (Nov 23, 2011)

But 17 more showed brain changes in areas associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease known to affect concussed players. Scientific American (Feb 5, 2012)

Today, more than two decades later, the message remains tremendously powerful: Innovative technology in the hands of brave people can free us all from tyranny. Slate (Jan 31, 2012)

Utopia was a country imagined by Thomas Moore, wherein existed universal suffrage, religious toleration, almost complete abolition of the death penalty, and so on. Rizal, Jos?