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Vara

1. A Portuguese measure of length approximately equivalent to 1.1 meters. It became obsolete after Lusophone countries adopted the metric system in the 19th century.

2. A Spanish measure of length approximately equivalent to 0.84 meters. It is largely obsolete, but is still used in the sale of lumber in Costa Rica.

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"The default is going to be to not risk it" when it comes to determining whether a mutually beneficial arrangement is actually a conflict of interest, Varas said.

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Ronaldo stepped up and with little fuss struck the ball straight down the middle with Varas diving early to his right.

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Con este fin, Varas aborda, por un lado la importancia transgresora de la constitucion y apariencia fisica de la poeta, al convertir su propio cuerpo en "una superficie donde ella inscribio y subvirtio activamente las expectativas sociales" (35).

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"This has got to be Photoshop," exclaimed Lex Fautsch when he first eyed a Puerto Varas property for sale on the Internet in July 2000.