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Now, you might be thinking, "Well, she's just said the word 'defense' and 'military' an awful lot," but what's really interesting is that this is actually true in sector after sector and department after department.
They spend an awful lot on buying back their stock, which is quite problematic.
There's an awful lot of procurement going on that is absolutely prejudiced against good design.
Cilia and the clearance of mucus are also involved in awful diseases like cystic fibrosis.
And there were particular numbers that every time I saw them, just got me dreadfully upset, all kinds of ritualistic observances ... just awful, awful stuff.
But if you have a perfectly awful life, and you feel miserable all the time, the way you feel is commensurate with your life, and it doesn't occur to you to think, "Maybe this is treatable."
And in the measure that we plant stuff, what we learn from agriculture is you've got to deal with pests, you've got to deal with all types of awful things, you've got to cultivate stuff.
It was so awful, but why did they do it at 40 and 50?
And the awful thing is, there are so many other examples out there from all walks of life.
But this was an awful tragedy, and it shouldn't have been so difficult just to try and find out who was responsible for those deaths.
So people will then say, "Well, Chris, you describe the guy who is going through some awful training but you're also describing these powerful educators.
Mark Twain says that proper preparation, or teaching, is so powerful that it can turn bad morals to good, it can turn awful practices into powerful ones, it can change men and transform them into angels.
I just heard that there were these scandalous writers called Language poets who didn't make any sense, and I wanted to go and see for myself what they were like, and some of them didn't do much for me, but this writer, Rae Armantrout, did an awful lot, and I kept reading her until I felt I knew what was going on, as I do with this poem.
The columns and the ground is made of tabby shales scooped up from the Atlantic, a reminder of that awful crossing.
All of the grand challenges that we face today, like climate change and human rights and demographics and terrorism and pandemics and narco-trafficking and human slavery and species loss, I could go on, we're not making an awful lot of progress against an awful lot of those challenges.
Have you ever woken up blissfully and suddenly been flooded by the awful remembrance that someone had left you?
Now this image looks just awful by today's standards, but at the time I thought it was beautiful.
It's also because we've actually done an awful lot of work into the maths of how to find the perfect partner.
It's because the teacher was awful."
It promotes such awful pseudoscience.
The traffic jam is awful in Tokyo, as you know.
SK: It's really awful.
After they got through telling us all the stories of how awful the conditions and the children were, I looked at them, and I said, "So what.
And the one on the left is pretty awful.
Humans not only can feel grief, we create an awful lot of it.
It smelled awful.
It's an awful lot like the same technology that is used for space walks.
For such a little organ, the thyroid wields an awful lot of power.
For example, listening to gravity, just in this way, can tell us a lot about the collision of two black holes, something my colleague Scott has spent an awful lot of time thinking about.
In one study, students who had initially done badly on a logic quiz and then took a mini course on logic were quite willing to label their original performances as awful.
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