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linea
noun
Any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface.
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Zola had inscribed on his mantelpiece the phrase "nulla dies sine linea" (no day without a sentence).
The number would be much higher if it included people such as Ms Dunham, unable to meet all her family's needs despite being above the poverty lineA common lament is that, 40 or 50 years ago, motivated workers with little formal education, like Ms Dunham, would have been able to find factory jobs that paid a decent wage with benefits.
Derived from the long white tunic (tunica alba, or linea) commonly worn in the Greco-Roman world, the alb was retained by the Christian clergy as a vestment after secular styles began changing in the 6th century ad.
The shaft is somewhat convex forward and strengthened behind by a pillar of bone called the linea aspera.
Their fibres all merge toward the midline, where they surround the rectus abdominis in a sheath before they meet the fibres from the opposite side at the linea alba.
They may serve to contract the linea alba, an activity that is considered irrelevant to the function of the abdominal muscles.
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However, the new, booted Fiat Linea, which is manufactured in Turkey and will also be made in China, India and Russia, provides ammunition it has previously lacked.So far, for all its small-car expertise, Fiat has yet to decide whether to join the low-cost bandwagon that Renault started with the Logan, a basic four-door saloon made in Romania.
As the United Kingdom is not party to the Schengen Agreement, the crossing between La Linea and Gibraltar is one of the few remaining controlled internal borders in western Europe.
Scattering its musical treasures like petals through April, La Linea opens with Toumani Diabaté's left-field collaboration with Brazilian poet Arnaldo Antunes and guitarist Edgard Scandurra, A Curva Da Cintura, at Union Chapel, and Cuba's most popular contemporary group, trumpeter Alexander Abreu's Havana D'Primera, making their UK debut at Electric Brixton.
Both have emphasized that the investigation of the Pérez Molina Administration, and of the former President himself, for their role in La Linea and in other corruption cases is only beginning.
His arrest is the result of the Guatemalan Justice Department, working in close collaboration with the United Nations International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, or CICIG, investigating a corruption scheme known as La Linea, in which the Guatemalan customs agency offered importers greatly reduced tariffs in exchange for kickbacks that were shared among dozens of government officials.
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