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Tom Angotti, an urban planner and director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development, questions the significance of the planning-commission director's emphasis on fine-grain maneuvers.
Zoning Laws Grow Up Julie V. Iovine 2012
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Indeed, since taking the advice to "attune their sensitivities better to the fine-grain of everyday life" and make books safe for reading "five or ten minutes at a clip, non-commitally" is the most idiotic and self-destructive thing publishers could do, they no doubt will do it, with great dispatch.
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Over 20 years ago a scientist named Herbert Gleiter first presented the concept of dealing with nanocrystalline or fine-grain materials (materials with a grain size of under 100 nanometers) that would have "special properties" -- very high strength, toughness, fatigue life and wear resistance.
Using Cold War Tech For Peacetime Healing Terry Lowe 2010
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But you have to streamline some of the information to make a compelling 11-minute information, and whatever is lost in fine-grain is made up for in lucidness.
Hot Cartoon Makes Understanding Credit Crisis Simple And Fun - The Consumerist 2009
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By choosing CPU type, memory amount and disk configurations of the lowest common denominator, customers of cloud hardware rental know exactly what they receive, can control the infrastructure at a fine-grain level and can easily compare pricing.
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Ah, but nothing comes for free, and among the means the Mustang employs to achieve its celebrated highway mpg is a host of fine-grain aerodynamic tweaks, including smaller, more streamlined side mirrors, which some misbegotten son-of-a-dog safety engineer decided needed spotter mirrors.
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory2.73:1 Dan Neil 2010
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Ah, but nothing comes for free, and among the means the Mustang employs to achieve its celebrated highway mpg is a host of fine-grain aerodynamic tweaks, including smaller, more streamlined side mirrors, which some misbegotten son-of-a-dog safety engineer decided needed spotter mirrors.
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory Dan Neil 2010
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Ah, but nothing comes for free, and among the means the Mustang employs to achieve its celebrated highway mpg is a host of fine-grain aerodynamic tweaks, including smaller, more streamlined side mirrors, which some misbegotten son-of-a-dog safety engineer decided needed spotter mirrors.
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory Dan Neil 2010
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Its massive lobby features fine-grain terrazzo floors, polished gray granite walls and squared granite pillars.
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Other toxic byproducts include fine-grain particulates, heavy metals like mercury, lead, chromium and nickel, trace elements such as arsenic and selenium, and various organics like dichloroethane, benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, and trichloroethylene.
Jeff Schweitzer: Why Clean Coal Is Not, but Renewables Are 2010
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