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Spiders use silk for many purposes, including the trailing safety dragline, wrapping eggs for reproduction, protective retreats and catching prey.
This is the silk that's used to make the frame and radii of an orb web, and also the safety trailing dragline.
Sable glimmers toward grey; objects emerge, trailing shadows; night ages toward day.
How many trailing zeros should there be at the end of the count of rabbits in the bottom habitat?
All we need to figure out is how many trailing zeros it has.
But how can we know how many trailing zeros a number has without calculating the number itself?
And there are only two ways to get numbers with trailing zeros through multiplication: either multiplying a number ending in 5 by any even number, or by multiplying numbers that have trailing zeroes themselves.
Two of the numbers have trailing zeros – 20 rabbits in the fourth cell and 30 in the fifth cell.
That means we only need to worry about the numbers that have trailing zeros themselves.
20 and 30 each have one zero, so the product of both cells will have two trailing zeros, while the product of either cell and an adjacent non-zero-ending cell will have only one.
The crime boss who killed him (Stockwell) takes a fancy to Pfeiffer, his wife (Reuhl) is furious and to complicate matters Pfeiffer also falls for the cop who is trailing her.
A travellator slowly carries a solitary out of focus figure towards the camera, trailing a huge suitcase behind him.
But also trailing Kermit is the proprietor of a restaurant chain, Doc Hoppers French Fried Frog Legs.
In conclusion my trailing thought thesis had more continuity, plot, character development, antagonism, subject matter, and acting then the entirety of this film.
The movie segues from decade to decade from the 10's to the 80's with amazing newsreel footage trailing Soviet history from the revolution to war famine and the titanic technological achievements of an empire (terrific visuals here!
This one has a great closing scene of Barrymore trailing behind a horse on his wheelchair through the desert.
In last year’s Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Italy was ranked 61st, trailing all other advanced economies.
But while Abbott was a spectacularly effective opposition leader as the Labor government unraveled, he proved himself utterly unable to manage his transition to Prime Minister, and was trailing badly in the opinion polls when he was ousted.
For example, Trump was ahead in Ohio before the tape’s release; recent polling indicates that now he is trailing Clinton there.
The S&P’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for the trailing 12 months is close to 20, compared to a long-run mean of 15.53 and a median of 14.57.
Trump, trailing Hillary Clinton badly in August polls, has come under growing pressure to move closer to the Republican Party establishment.
Germany had its turn at the head when hard money was the issue of the day; today it is trailing because the restructuring mode does not accord well with its traditions of pay without work and disciplined followers without courageous leadership.
LONDON – With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a “hung” parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power.
Polls show him trailing Oscar Berger, a conservative former Guatemala City mayor supported by the business community, as well as the more leftist candidate, Alvaro Colom.
That will soon be the case again, even though in terms of per capita wealth China ranks roughly 100th in the world, trailing Albania.
Trailing her in opinion polls, the other contenders cite her lack of credibility on economic policy and international relations.
These new regulations will ensure that European companies will be left trailing far behind their international competitors.
When measured against the size of its national economy, most German banks remain too small, trailing their international rivals in terms of both market capitalization and total assets.
But, unlike Lindbergh, who defeats US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the novel, Trump’s recent performance has merely made him weaker: he is now trailing Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate, by ten points.
That places him third, trailing only Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates on the Forbes list, which takes into account both the absolute sum given and the proportion of a person’s wealth represented by that sum.
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