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1 Project Galileo ( it was actually the Polish astronomer Copernicus who first proposed that planets , including the Earth , orbit the Sun ) sets out to define and develop an overlay for current graphical user interfaces that operates and behaves the same way , regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath , providing a common working environment .
2 Gerard says that pounded and mixed with vinegar it was used by the Germans as a sauce for fish and with " such like meates as we do mustard " .
3 The feeling that England stifles and smothers and crushes like a steamroller over everything fresh and green and original .
4 Q What is it your child does and says that makes you refer to his/her actions/words as a temper tantrum ?
5 Along its length were neon strips that fluttered and buzzed .
6 The HERMS data base was managed by a number of VARPRO programs " wrapped around " menu key file commands that inserted and manipulated parts .
7 Consumers self-image is an important clue to purchase behaviour , for around it cluster wants and needs that serve to defend and enhance the idealised perceptions that most individuals have about themselves .
8 It is also worth considering whether historians have a role to play in developing SGML-aware software and/or conversion utilities which will enable us to fulfil our favourite processing aims while reading and writing TEI-conformant files .
9 The RSPB goes to great lengths to research the topics in which it involves itself , so that people will take notice of what the Society says and does and treat its views with respect .
10 The range of special souvenir postal covers from the Cambridge Stamp Centre grows and grows and grows .
11 For Jesus is God 's final word to men ; and the Spirit illuminates and interprets but does not add to that word .
12 Lack of sufficient proportion , clarity or similarity means that clarifying and distinguishing the data is so fraught with excessive difficulty that interest is stultified .
13 ‘ Crimes ’ varied from place to place and from time-period to time-period ; they reflected the interests , moral concerns and ideological positions of those who were in the power positions that defined and enforced them .
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