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And the boys are hard enough to understand: At first, I thought they were from New Zealand, then just figured they had a speech impediment.

They add that a pivot to segments such as specialist asset finance could help lift return-on-tangible-equity, where a structural impediment remains due to BOQ’s size and scale.

The government has made much of its plans to sweep away impediments to economic growth and has seen that acknowledged by some of the biggest investors in UK infrastructure.

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The animals are increasingly stressed from changes in food availability, shipping traffic, noise pollution, waste discharge, disease and plastic debris, and their ability to avoid and survive these impediments is diminishing.

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Serve Robotics said in a statement that its robots are designed and tested to safely navigate around mobility devices such as wheelchairs and to avoid being an impediment to people with disabilities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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