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• They were spiked down on ordinary sleepers laid upon the natural grade, and the gauge was about three feet six inches. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
• Fired from a standard twelve-gauge, the weapon shot out a self-contained, wireless dart that packed a shocking neuromuscular jolt. —  The Last Oracle by James Rollins
• Sure, I could correct with a few puffs and send myself back down to the surface, but the amount of gas in my jet pack is limited, and the gauge is already edging toward the red line. —  AnalogSFF,December2007
• So it depends on what metric you are using to kind of gauge -- I was thinking primarily there in terms of risk and premium. —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
• The Vix reacted by raising the cost of option insurance with the index adding 3 points to 43.0, while option traders sold around 1,200 put options with a 40.0 strike at 96 cents indicating that the fear-gauge will be above this level at expiration this month. —  FXstreet.com

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