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The eggs should have been tempered with pasta water, or combined off heat.

Orchard Hills homes are outfitted with tempered glass, which is stronger than single-pane windows that tend to break in fires.

Osborn can sound like a factory man from a Bruce Springsteen song, a character whose youthful exuberance and restless sense of escape have been tempered by life’s hard awakenings.

Initially he said he hoped to save as much as $2tn a year, but later tempered this estimate.

If any other pitcher was returning from a season-long absence spent recovering from a second elbow reconstruction, there would be tempered expectations.