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There is an older, more uncomfortable, method of wrapping the rope around one's body for friction instead of using a descender, as in the Dulfersitz or Geneva methods used by climbers in the 1960s.
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There are occasional quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as Megillat Taanit.
There exists an older killed whole-cell vaccine that is still used in countries where the newer preparations are not available, but this vaccine is no longer recommended for use, because it has a higher rate of side effects ( mainly pain and inflammation at the site of the injection ).
There is some evidence that in late-Classical and Hellenistic Sparta boys were expected to take an older male mentor, usually an unmarried young man.
There is an outspoken understanding between me and her that she should not consider marriage or the preliminaries before she gets two or three years older ".
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There is also an older method called Kantorovich iteration that uses Newton's method directly ( without the introduction of smoothing operators ).
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