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  • The participation numbers from recent Olympics show glacier-like change.

    Jacques Rogge's IOC no advocate for women athletes 2010

  • Thin to emaciation, he seemed a cold flame of a man, a man of a mysterious, chemic sort of flame, who, under a glacier-like exterior, conveyed, somehow, the impression of the ardent heat of a thousand suns.

    Chapter II 2010

  • You will now be able to view features such as lava flows and glacier-like geological features.

    Google Earth Adds More Mars Imagery Mr. Byrne 2009

  • You will now be able to view features such as lava flows and glacier-like geological features.

    Archive 2009-12-11 Mr. Byrne 2009

  • Market leaders like Corbis and Getty are poorly run, glacier-like in their movement, and have no answer to the questions posed about their business models by the Internet.

    Photo suckers 2007

  • Market leaders like Corbis and Getty are poorly run, glacier-like in their movement, and have no answer to the questions posed about their business models by the Internet.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • Unfortunately, word-of-mouth, with regards to dense hard SF, sometimes moves with glacier-like rapidity.

    You Can Get This Book For Free. You Should Buy It. « Whatever 2006

  • The Retarder will, of course, have the reverse effect to the Accelerator; used alone it should enable the patient to spread a few seconds over many hours of ordinary time, — and so to maintain an apathetic inaction, a glacier-like absence of alacrity, amidst the most animated or irritating surroundings.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • They say that the ratings in morning television, sort of, move at glacier-like speeds, and people get, I think, very ...

    CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2002 2002

  • They say that the ratings in morning television, sort of, move at glacier-like speeds, and people get, I think, very ...

    CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2002 2002

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