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The taut central portion generates large additional stress via a dissipative mechanism.
Almost all are men, in their 60s, with upright bearing, taut face, poor teeth, wiry frame, and other signs of having endured malaria, bad diet, heavy smoking and psychological stress.
The station is covered by a series of elegant off-white canopies stretched taut between support beams resting on columns, giving the site an open, modern ambience.
In twentieth-century domestic architecture, the well-proportioned rectangular plan with carefully-placed objects within it, surrounded by a taut enclosing skin composed like a still life, was (and still is) de rigueur.
Instrumental genres may not be overtly politicized, but they carry with them traces of social ideas and archetypes that create a taut expressive edge, going beyond the 'merely' aesthetic.
Where competition is not possible, we seek to maximise value for money through the use of taut terms and conditions and incentive arrangements.
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