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Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.

We don't want to see any doors closed to students. The very poor are taken care of with grants, the well-to-do have never had to worry about this, but it's those in the middle that are going to struggle.

Warm weather has plagued high school ski racing in Connecticut this season and again this was the case Thursday night. Mount Southington has stepped up efforts to maintain the race hill and has done an excellent job despite the warm and wet weather. The mountain was closed until 2 p.m. on Thursday and the race hill was kept closed until the start of the race. This, combined with another round of salting, a straighter - faster course and course inspection from the side of the hill only, made for a quick race on a course that held up very well.

The regulators must not allow the site to be closed until they are absolutely certain that those standards have been met, ... Anything less is unacceptable.

We are very pleased with the way Ben closed out his conference career. Ben has always been an extremely hard worker.

We didn't know if she had died or was still alive and had been transferred to the Superdome. We didn't even get to see her body. It was a closed casket. That was pretty hard on me. I really looked up to her.

We didn't hold the lead and I told our team we should have come away with three points. We closed up shop and then we nearly gave up a goal at the end with Chris Klein. We can't afford to do that.

We had some early matches that could have closed the gap on Edgar, but you have to hand it to them. They did what they had to do. Four champions is pretty good and Jeremiah winning his third is impressive.

We went to a party and I couldn't get in. I was like, 'But I have a statue!' ... They were like, 'No, you can't get in.' There were too many people and the fire marshal had closed it off, so all the other Housewives were up there partying and I was downstairs. Poor me with my statue!

Besides the third match, I think this doubles performance was one of our better performances. They just do some things better. They closed into the net well and were a little more aggressive, they put the pressure on us and they were able to win a lot of the big points.

Everything there looks like Mississippi from the air, just devastated. Highway 23 is closed due to standing water or just being washed away.

Even though we closed the forest, (Rita) evacuees tried to find shelter in the campgrounds. At Caney Creek we are told there were 20 people in one of the buildings.

Even so, the danger of acting hastily is that you may end up accidentally throwing out the family silver in the bin liner. Even if you're in a closed with-profits fund with a low proportion invested in shares and very poor bonus rates, that does not necessarily mean you should get out of it.

Big changes were made behind closed doors in the final 24 to 48 hours ... overwhelmingly favoring special interests that make large campaign contributions at the expense of ordinary Americans and poor Americans.

Every location was closed because it was not meeting its financial expectations.

As soon as we got back and closed the gap down, they hit the first 3 and then Willis hit another 3.

As though an invisible hand were writing upon it, words appeared on the smooth surface of the map. "Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."Snape froze. Harry stared, dumbstruck, at the message. But the map didn't stop there. More writing was appearing beneath the first."Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git."It would have been funny if the situation hadn't been so serious. And there was more..."Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor."Harry closed his eyes in horror. When he'd opened them, the map had had its last word."Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

At the start of the third quarter we came out and they closed it right away. We didn't move it (the ball), especially in the third quarter. It was one pass, one dribble, one shot. That's what will happen when you play a team like that.

At this moment we are ordering Total closed for two days.

Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.

Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?

Doctors still haven't closed up his left leg yet but they're hoping to by Saturday and he is still running a high fever.

Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.

Don't forget he's almost 79 years old. Part of his restricted schedule is not because he's doing feverish things behind closed doors. He's resting. There was speculation in 2002 and 2003 that his health wasn't very good. There is a basis for believing that there may be some fatigue and delicacy of constitution there.

Don't even look until you've closed on the old house. You could fall in love with a house and feel like you need to buy right away.

Andy had informed us that he was considering playing in our qualifying tournament, as direct entries were closed and our wild cards had been distributed weeks in advance. However, he did not commit and after careful consideration following training today, Andy told us that he would not participate in the qualifying tournament. He instead will remain in South Florida and resume training for the upcoming Davis Cup tie. We were obviously looking forward to Andy's participation, we wish him good luck next week and we hope he will play next year.

Drilling systems today mainly use water to move mass up the tube and away from the bit. In space, you need to develop a closed system to do that.

due to the recent hurricane, Preservation Hall will be closed indefinitely.

Equity markets finished last week on an upbeat footing but the resurgent price of oil and the fact some Asian markets have been closed for the week's opening session to mark the Chinese New Year may make further direction difficult to find in the short term.

Even after the appeal had closed there was still the odd donation coming in from members of the community.

Essentially, it came down to a 'he said, she said. The alleged event took place behind closed doors without any independent witnesses or evidence to support the charge.

Erosion was endangering the road, but it's not collapsing or anything like that. Mainly the road was closed for the safety of the workers.

Flat, rubber soles, soft materials, open toe. We did a wedge shoe -- not too high, four centimeters, and it comes in an open toe or mule or a closed pump. It's very comfortable and looks a bit like a nurse's shoe.

Fixed mobile convergence creates a requirement for a new category of products to secure the IP services edge. With convergence, previously closed and protected networks such as mobile and cable, become open to the public Internet, making them extremely vulnerable to malicious attacks. While creating enormous new revenue-enhancing opportunities for service providers, the new IP services edge also becomes a dangerous frontier if left unsecured.

There was a barber shop that closed not too long ago. It's amazing what that's done. It's thrown us all for a loop, as busy as it's been.

There's more to be feared from closed minds than from closed doors

There's no way I can control this area with the men I have, ... The reports are that the insurgents are using these southern control points because they're open. We can't keep them closed because I don't have the manpower.

There's nothing behind a closed door besides a toilet.

I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I bought into that fully. I really explored in depth the Chabad ideology.

I see the case as creating two extremes. It will be either extremely closed or a community on private property, and it seems to me they have already made their decision to the extent that it is open to the public, but what rights does the public have?

I should have closed the first set in the tiebreak earlier than I did, but I tried to stay positive all the way through and I think that was the difference between us.

It would have been a lot nicer if it was prettier. We haven't closed a game until now. This was a tight game and we closed it.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

The wind was blowing hard (right to left), in the closed end, and (the ball) came back. If (the attempt) was 3 or 4 yards back, it was good. But I aimed a little too far outside (the uprights).

The window of opportunity for Internet startups to get in before the big guys is closed in most cases. There's a difference these days from the heady early days. The cost of entry is getting higher by the week, and the venture-capital firms are more rigorous about their funding decisions.

The (Veterans Administration and Department of Defense) and the bureaucracies in general still have a tin ear and a very cold heart and a very closed mind,

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.

The workers in the plant, the public and certainly the victims and their families really deserve to know everything that OSHA found before some of it was traded away behind closed doors.

These are the symbols of the old Japan which was closed to outsiders, ... They will continue to be serious irritants. ... Unless Japan solves these problems, it gives a lie to the claim that Japan is being market driven.

The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have preceded the event which has crushed my hopes yet there seems to be a necessity in doing so, and I obey the impulse that urges me.

The roof being closed should have helped me so I'm very disappointed.

It would be unconscionable for the House to continue to do business as usual, ... when the voices and needs of millions of hard-working American families have been closed out of the people's house.

These comments were blown off. Board members wanted to accept what was being told to us by the Board attorney and KPMG. Their ears simply were closed to any other information that was being provided.

These comments were blown off, ... Board members wanted to accept what was being told to us by the Board attorney and KPMG. Their ears simply were closed to any other information that was being provided.

The season turned out really well. Considering we were closed for a week during the holidays and it rained most of December.

These were modest changes. We should have closed more. For all that anxiety, all that stress, all that anger - this is all we saved.

The store will be closed when they do mandatory evacuations, but no, I'm not (evacuating). Of course, I'm a little further away than it's predicted to make landfall,

The staff will see all patients before the doors are closed for the night. If a community member has to have access to medical care, urgent care is one way.

The speculation is that it would be released into the air as an aerosol, possibly from an airplane or perhaps in a closed room. People would then breathe it in,

The show was closed unjustly because the licensing ordinance that the city claims was the grounds for closing us does not apply to nonprofit and charitable organizations like the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.

The Supreme Court has not closed the doors of justice to the detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. This is a major victory for the rule of law and affirms the right of every person, citizen or non-citizen, detained by the United States to test the legality of his or her detention in a U.S. Court.

The Spanish classes are always closed because they are full of freshmen and sophomores.

The thing I liked about today more than anything was we picked each other up. I really thought the pitchers did a nice job of picking guys up and we had to scratch for some runs, but the bottom line is that Billy came in and closed it on a great throw by Carlos.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

Sometimes when it's too hot, I just sleep in my underwear. If it's colder, I sleep in pajamas. I don't like to feel closed in. I like no pillows. I like very fluffy beds. I sleep on my stomach and sometimes on my side, but never on my back. Now, if I have my boyfriend with me, I kick him out of bed, because I move around a lot. I'm the worst person. I steal blankets.

Technology solutions deliver a record-breaking quarter as we closed our calendar year 2005 with 11 percent revenue growth while growing operating income by 22 percent for the calendar year. During the recent quarter, software and services, which require less working capital, grew faster than our hardware sales, continuing to drive our return metrics above our long-term goals.

Ted Stevens and Don Young are at it again. Overreaching behind closed doors to slip a controversial attack on the environment that they know couldn't get through the normal legislative process into important national security legislation. Congress should reject this scheme.

Teachers did their best to create a closed classroom, but you can hear the distractions.

Television has changed. There's obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I'm not closed off to television. If there's an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I'd definitely be open to it.

Sometimes they'll have a lane closed and it doesn't even look like they're working.

Some people seem to think, from watching CNN reports from the French Quarter, that everything's back to normal. Others seem to think the city is completely closed and nonfunctional. ... It does seem to be the extremes as opposed to what really is happening.

Romania was closed to Americans at this time.

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips.

Power to the U.S. Capitol is being restored. The cause is being investigated. The capitol will remain closed until the cause has been resolved.

Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It could be bloody.

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Radio actually works better. It helps to reduce the celebrity factor, where people can't get past the actor to separate the parts, especially when you have some actors doing multiple characters. In fact, some people we talked to actually told us that the play worked better for them when they closed their eyes in the theater.

Projects like Cape Wind would help put America on the path toward energy independence. This amendment emerges from nowhere, from the back door, from closed rooms.

probe will be officially closed in short order.

Our division was closed with 20-something games to go. The conference was closed with 10 or 12 games to go, so everyone turned their attention toward out west and the chase that was happening out there.

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

People passing closed stations aren't panicking and stopping to top off at the open station. We've seen a little bit more calm restored.

People didn't know what to expect running here. We actually have people ask if they needed to wear a mask when they ran. They wanted to know if the city was closed or if it was toxic. We had to tell them the air's OK to breathe, the water's OK to drink. They aren't in any danger.

Officials closed this fire just in the nick of time. This is an amazing fire. It is just burning and raging.

Oh, absolutely. The first restaurant I worked at was this place Steak & Ale in Bradenton, Florida. It's been closed down... Hmm, I wonder why? And we played a game similar to that. The cooks and the waiters would play this game where they'd pull their b***s out right in the middle of a shift and they'd try and catch you when you weren't expecting it. I took the game and I sort of expanded upon it a little bit; made the rules more defined. But it is rooted in truth. We did play a version of the game. No question.

After the CNN story, I had 50 calls. They'd say, 'Can you tell us how you closed the gap?' They think we're done.

The mysteries we ostensibly perceive, though seemingly ubiquitous, are but mere stitches that hold the inconceivably vast fabric of the unknown tightly closed from our ever prying view.

The old formula was you raised $5 million in funding, you go into stealth mode. You think of a product you think the world needs and you develop the product in a closed environment, ... Then you raise another $5 million and hire $300,000-a-year sales representatives.

A Day without Latinos. They closed the plant because a lot of people walked out.

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

Some business actually gets done here. There are active negotiations, and we've closed deals here.

Some refineries have made repairs quickly and will be running normally in a week or two. About half of the refineries that closed will take a lot longer to get back on line.

No matter how hard they seemed to have closed the door, somebody higher up can say you should have looked at this. I'm not faint of heart at this point, anyway.

Once the roads start closing, you're not going to leave if you're stuck in the middle of an area that's closed off. You'll have to find an alternate route.

Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes when you first realize that your spouse should have been home hours ago; when you hear a strange sound in the baby's bedroom; when you realize that a window you are sure you closed is now open, the curtains billowing, and you're alone in the house.

decisions behind closed doors, in our name, without our consent.

Decisions are being taken behind closed doors. We are discussing food which we eat, there shouldn't be any doubt at all.