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As for next year, Obama described a "handful of areas" where progress could be made in 2016, even though the legislative process would be "skewed" by election-year politics.

Interestingly, while SIV infection is generally nonpathogenic in natural hosts, we and others have described a handful of AIDS cases in AGMs, mandrills, sooty mangabeys, and black mangabeys [ 50], the vast majority of which occurred in older NHPs.

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Fifteen years ago, the Israeli scholar Benny Morris coined the term "new historians" to describe a handful of young Israeli writers who were recasting the standard Zionist narrative.

"In Thailand, tapioca is used for thickening sauces, and to make a few desserts,'" says Thai chef Yui Sriyabhaya, who describes a handful of desserts all made with coconut milk, palm-sugar syrup and tapioca in varying forms, such as the fat worms of boiled tapioca dough in krong kraeng, or the green (dyed with pandan leaves) tapioca jelly matchsticks in lod chong Singapore.

Historian Richard Hofstadter (1955) originally coined the phrase "social Darwinism" to describe a handful of late nineteenth and early twentieth century American industrialists who strongly endorsed Spencer's principles.

"Blue zones" describe a handful of longevity hot spots around the world, where people commonly live active and healthy lives past the age of 100.

In his study of Waugh's literary life, David Wykes describes A Handful of Dust as "a courageous and skilful act of fictional autobiography", driven by the trauma of the writer's divorce without which, Wykes maintains, the book would not have been written.

Why has my body been what my plastic surgeon likes to call "completely remodeled", at a cost of $250,000 to my insurance company, just because of what my radiologist described as "a handful of atypical cells"?

Nevertheless, McKinnon remains a key member of Bush's small circle of top strategists, one of what a leading trade journal described as "a handful of players behind every big decision, consensus or roadblock in Washington... putting a unique, sometimes hidden stamp on the outcome of today's debates".

Such variations can be described by a handful of vectors.

This model is described by a handful of cosmological parameters, now determined with unprecedented precision, many of them are measured in multiple independent ways.

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