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For each column, he’ll run the same steps— look all the way left for the tallest, do the same to the right, take the lower height of the two, subtract the original column height, and increase the grand total if that number is positive.
There's lots of grand openings.
In 1916, he arranged for a grand exhibition in New York.
So you can think of the neocortex actually as a massive grand piano, a million-key grand piano.
Now, of course it takes years to learn how to master a grand piano with a million keys.
And so, you have these grand rituals where great images of mother goddesses are built and worshiped for 10 days ...
In 2003, when I stepped out of the pure play capitalistic sector to work on so-called social sector issues, I definitely did not have any grand strategy or plan to pursue and find for-profit solutions to addressing pressing public issues.
At that time, I noticed that corruption, that grand corruption, that systematic corruption, was undermining everything we were trying to do.
That we have today more than a billion people below the absolute poverty line, that we have more than a billion people without proper drinking water in the world, twice that number, more than two billion people without sanitation and so on, and the consequent illnesses of mothers and children, still, child mortality of more than 10 million people every year, children dying before they are five years old: The cause of this is, to a large extent, grand corruption.
They are not as good at bribing as many of their international competitors are, but they were not allowed to show their strengths, because the world was eaten up by grand corruption.
I found local sustainable funding to get every single school in the area from the junk, onto the fresh food: six-and-a-half grand per school.
That's all it takes, six-and-a-half grand per school.
The Kitchen is 25 grand a month.
And there were the most circuitous grand plans that had to do with long-term infrastructure and rebuilding the entire city.
Maybe you've had grand plans before, but stopped yourself, thinking, "That's impossible," or "That costs too much," or "That won't benefit me."
If you want to go beyond a tinkering, if you want to go beyond a hobby of robotics and really tackle the grand challenges of robotics through rigorous research, we need more than that.
You so wish for your party to be the grand opportunity party, not the grumpy old party.
It starts with garage at the bottom, I suppose, appropriately, but it doesn't go up garage, grand floor, mezzanine, one, two, three, four.
And I think that sometimes we develop grand concepts of what happiness might look like for us, but that, if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of happiness in every breath that we take.
And the third, and maybe the most grand, is to find ways to empower women, enable them to fight the stigma and to live positive and productive lives with HIV.
And currently I'm president of Global Research Alliance, 60,000 scientists in nine counties, right from India to the U.S. I'm trying to build a global team, which will look at the global grand challenges that the world is facing.
And I just look at this, and I think, yes, we could take that so much further by allowing people to set targets by setting calibrated targets, by using elements of uncertainty, by using these multiple targets, by using a grand, underlying reward and incentive system, by setting people up to collaborate in terms of groups, in terms of streets to collaborate and compete, to use these very sophisticated group and motivational mechanics we see.
We can offer people the grand continuity of experience and personal investment.
But it's also about collective engagement and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes people tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in games.
Slaughter Trail is a B western with some grand pretensions.
The veteran Khaled Sami was funny in a badly written role as the grand father, which he is clearly got miscasted, for he looks younger than the actor who plays his son.
I am also a Val Kilmer fan so he was part of the reason I made such a grand effort to view the film.
Other than a few seconds in the judo team locker room, the two leads' side by side shower lasts a grand total of 15 seconds.
Why the students treat their experiment as some kind of grand journey that'll make them famous is a bit of a mystery, as the results are completely unproveable and, as the movie mentions several times, have been documented plenty of times before.
As written by Rafael Sabatini, this was a clean cut tale of piracy in the Caribbean, and it would have made a grand motion .
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