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The traffic crawled at its usual stop-start pace, but she made good time on a cut-through she knew in Ballsbridge and was soon zipping across the junction at Nutley Lane and parking in the stunted multi-storey car park that defaced the southern reaches of the hospital grounds.
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So how is a designer to gain "style cut-through" in a sport in which you are essentially trying to create something that looks good from all angles even the indelicate ones, at all paces, in all weathers?
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Neighborhood Protection: protect neighborhood local and collector streets from high-speed and cut-through traffic.
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The right turn arrow was installed to prevent drivers from using Notley as a cut-through to get to New Hampshire Ave., a major thoroughfare, said Esther Bowring, a county spokeswoman said.
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Trainor puts the "pedal to the metal" and gains some ground on Peck, who makes a critical mistake by turning onto the access road to Bed, Bath& Beyond rather than the cut-through that would take her to a victory lap and the grand prize — a $1,000 shopping spree at Pottery Barn, the upscale home furnishings store.
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Pasenelli said cut-through traffic from Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road is one of the few downsides of living in Woodside Park.
Woodside Park, a leafy enclave of unique homes in Silver Spring
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Both insurers signed so-called cut-through endorsements with a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to offer some policyholders a guarantee that if the insurers couldn't pay claims, Berkshire Hathaway would.
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But unlike traditional reinsurance, a cut-through endorsement offers backup coverage directly to a policyholder, rather than to the insurer.
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This is a brilliant idea, providing an unknown candidate with a cut-through gimmick that helps him be remembered.
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This is a brilliant idea, providing an unknown candidate with a cut-through gimmick that helps him be remembered.
ramsler commented on the word cut-through
There was a news story about someone attacking students after school along a cut-through they used to walk home. They showed a photo of a trail through a wooded area (basically an undeveloped urban city lot with trees, shrubbery and a trail through it. It's the first time I'd heard cut throough as a noun. No spelling available as this was a verbal mention.
June 19, 2009