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  • Bill Keller: Apple Tablet 'Impending' - Bill Keller may have casually mentioned that Apple's not-officially-happening-but-clearly-happening tablet computer is imminent and that the New York Times are working to bring content to it.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Midterm Impending Democrat Doom … Republicans Jump to Historic Lead in Generic Congressional

    Scared Monkeys 2010

  • As the problem raced towards a crescendo and the predatory practices of the subprime industry grew to engulf most of the financial sector, ACORN issued a report called The Impending Rate Shock (PDF) that said these practices "pose a huge threat to the security of individual homeowners and entire neighborhoods."

    Bertha Lewis: Thank You Jon Stewart 2009

  • In 2006, as the problem raced towards a crescendo and the predatory practices of the subprime industry grew nationwide, ACORN issued a report called The Impending Rate Shock (PDF) that said these practices "pose a huge threat to the security of individual homeowners and entire neighborhoods."

    Bertha Lewis: Time To Put Main Street Over Wall Street -- Obama's Foreclosure Proposal 2009

  • "Approximately 15 percent of all South African adults aged 20 to 64 are currently infected and these levels could rise to 20 to 23 percent by 2005 and 22 to 27 percent by 2010," the Love Life report, titled Impending Catastrophe Revised, said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • 'Impending' Apple Tablet Creates Uneasy Alliance Between Cupertino and the Press

    Blogrunner 2009

  • Scenes from an Impending Marriage is more of the same, really, only this time it's explicit: the book began its life when his fiancee, Sarah, begged him to draw a miniature comic book for their guests as a wedding "favour".

    Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine – review 2011

  • Scenes from an Impending Marriage: a prenuptial memoir.

    Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine – review 2011

  • Adrian Tomine, author of the brilliant Shortcomings and a cartoonist at the New Yorker, has written a "prenuptial memoir" called Scenes from an Impending Marriage in which he lays bare, with ruthless efficiency, the bizarre effect that organising a wedding can have on even the sane and the cynical and Tomine, as fans will know, is nothing if not cynical.

    Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine – review 2011

  • Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Impending Arrivals and Departures

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Impending Arrivals and Departures 2009

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