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• NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
• Being able to prevent costly repairs is crucial on such expensive machinery.
• These calories are used to: replenish your glycogen (the way you store fuel in your muscles and liver) and oxygen stores. resynthesize phosphagen (ATP-PC). remove lactate. repair the wear and tear on your muscles caused by exercise (and these patch kits are made up of protein, which is costly in terms of calories). return your increased ventilation, blood circulation and body temperature to pre-exercise levels. hormones exercise induces (which also require protein). Chicagotribune.com -
• Using the VCC spreadsheet tool, The Journal's Hank Sims "twiddled" with the numbers and found hand-counting "wouldn't be all that time-consuming or costly" ( "Town Dandy," Aug. 2). www. Getting the Election Watchdog Message in the Media
• An all-out attack by a junior on a senior at a meeting is usually costly, especially if the junior member wins.
• It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
• Mining can be costly in terms of lives .
• The trust claims both units are underused and costly to run but have not yet released detailed information about how much would be saved in closing the units.
• The increase in inspections added costly delays to shipments in some cases. China Tries to Ease U.S. Trade Tensions
• It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged. Kincaid's Battery