• However, the prices at which off-course punters are paid are determined by the on-course market.

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  • Most of the rest are owned by small proprietors who are squeezed on all sides: by faltering tobacco sales, by 24-hour supermarket and drug store competition and, of course, by Wal-Mart.

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  • His pupils are male and female, around two-thirds sent on the course by their employers, including yacht-owners, aristocrats both British and foreign and the global nouveaux riches.

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  • Of course, he is aided by an attractive and strong-willed spouse, and of course that part, of the young Queen Mother, is played by Helena Bonham Carter.

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  • After bringing inflation under control during the Carter years with monetary tightening, Paul Volcker (appointed by President Carter and re-appointed by President Reagan) had plenty of room to reverse course, cutting short-term interest rates from around 20 percent in 1982 to around 6 percent in 1988!

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  • Now, all Iraqi Army recruits receive about the same length of basic training as new recruits in the U.S. Army a five-week core course, followed by an additional three-to-seven weeks of specialized training.

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  • The collision happened on the winding A487 at Pantperthog, north of Machynlleth, when the lance corporal and another serviceman - identified only as Soldier A - were on an advance trained course supervised by PC Keith Young of the West Mercia Police force.

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  • So what's a befuddled--by this abundance of choice, of course, not the whisky itself--aficionado to do?

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  • The British empire, navigated by jeweled clockwork, was set on course by collaboration--and a touch of well-timed fraud.

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  • Askernish is a par 67 nine-hole links course but it was discovered that it had been laid out over the original 18-hole course designed by Old Tom.

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  • My goal at the start of the year - other than winning of course - was to make sure I was exempt by the time I came back for the British Masters.

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  • But the larger issues of the year were the passage of the Civil Rights Act - which Barry Goldwater voted against - and, of course, the atmosphere created by the assassination of John F.

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  • Hamilton suggested Renault had helped Red Bull - who use Renault engines - by holding up the McLarens during the course of the race.

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  • Today, the 2, 600-acre gated enclave, situated some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, boasts century-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a number of Gilded-Age mansions designed by well-known architects of the day.

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  • That warning -- and the dire strategic implications of such a course of action -- was powerfully underscored by a statement prepared for the Roundtable by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John W. Vessey .

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  • The best-known measure is, of course, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, taken by college-bound seniors only but widely used as a proxy for school performance despite its proprietor's continuous protestations that it was not designed for that purpose.

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  • Mr Bush could still be knocked off-course by a scandal.

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  • Beijing has finally followed the script that was laid out provisionally by Chinese-language news reports over the course of recent months: it is shaking up the state-controlled telecom industry by knocking back the industry leader, China Mobile, while building up its weakest players.

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  • And as an African-American woman, she would be a ground-breaking choice to lead an agency that has only been led by white men over the course of its 80-year history.

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  • If the weather cooperates - and by that I mean no rain - and we can control the course and have it play firm, fast and be a fair test then we'll all be happy.

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  • After a somewhat fractious start in which several of the fillies appeared to become unsettled by the atmosphere on course, an early break-neck pace was set by David Simcock's Miss You Too, who appeared to taking a keen hold with jockey Ian Mongan.

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  • And the local-food movement's aims, of course, contradict those of the Fairtrade movement, by discouraging rich-country consumers from buying poor-country produce.

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  • Quinn invited 16 friends and associates to the multi-course meal made by Nick Wilber of The Fat Radish.

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  • Young people undergo a six-week course run by professional surf instructors and supported by trained volunteers from the local community.

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  • The meetup kicked off with a four-course dinner prepared by local chefs at a Saarinen built structure on the island park Belle Isle.

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  • Visiting golfers will be surprised to find that the Speedway is home to a world-class course by Indianapolis resident Pete Dye, the most awarded living designer.

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  • The same view dominates the bar, where guests congregate each evening to trade stories of the day's adventures before tucking into a six-course meal prepared by Jason Dell, onetime New Zealand Chef of the Year.

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  • These are isolated incidents -- which does not, of course, mean they are not terrible -- and are being investigated by both the Afghan government and ISAF.

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  • The salience -- and leverage -- afforded by these sorts of actions was illuminated last month in the course of a fascinating symposium sponsored by the Center for Security Policy's William J.

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