But this year diners were chewing over the game instead: OSU won, 23-13, likely ensuring a New Year's Day bowl invitation.
The Mets picked up manager Terry Collins's option for 2013 at the end of last year, ensuring he wouldn't be viewed as a lame duck this year.
The Federal Reserve America's central bank has got much of the credit for ensuring that last year's recession was mild, and with the interest-rate cut announced last month it has demonstrated its willingness to try to nudge the recovery along as much as it can.
The Senate bill extends 52 tax credits, mostly for one year, ensuring huge annual lobbying fees and political contributions.
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This is another example of a major regulation put off until next year, ensuring that Americans won't learn about its effect on their electricity bills until after the election.
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In a statement, Shonaig Macpherson, the National Trust for Scotland chairman, said the board and management had been implementing a three-year plan aimed at ensuring the organisation's long term financial health.
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The payroll-tax cut has only been extended for two months, ensuring that the rest of the year will be punctuated with fiscal skirmishes, even as nothing is done to deal with America's medium-term fiscal mess, or to smooth the huge tax hikes and spending cuts that loom at the end of 2012 under current law.
It also plans to tackle critical challenges, such as ensuring that Government computers can process the year 2000 date change, and making more Government services available electronically.
Also, firms will be able to set past losses against at most half of any year's profits ensuring that they will have to pay some tax whenever they are in the black.
We need enough freedom to let employees dream up next year's blockbuster product while also ensuring that, in the process, their ambitions don't harm the public and bankrupt the company.
Assange has blamed the delay of his new leak platform in part on vulnerabilities in the SSL encryption commonly used on websites, after a year that saw several of the companies ensuring the authenticity of encrypted sites compromised and used to issue fraudulent certificates.
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The Commission said it would submit proposed regulation by the middle of the year on inter-bank fees aimed at ensuring a level playing field for all card providers.
As the city buried its young Monday, questions were raised about whether Brazil is up to the task of ensuring the safety in venues for the World Cup next year, and the Olympics in 2016.
Meanwhile, the ACC enjoys a major boost in their conference branding initiatives by adding Notre Dame and ensuring that the Fighting Irish play 5 ACC teams per year despite not being a conference member in football.
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But securing a World Series appearance guarantees at least seven postseason home games, pretty much ensuring that the club will turn a profit in the inaugural year of its expensive new crib.
On Tuesday, the President will conduct interviews with local television anchors from across the country about the end of the war in Iraq, and the importance of ensuring that taxes do not go up on middle-class families next year.
The 43-year-old left Wigan at the end of last season after ensuring the Latics remained in the Premier League and has been out of work since.
They perform the Yaokwa ritual every year during the drought period to honour the Yakairiti spirits, thereby ensuring cosmic and social order for the different clans.
The best television shows of the year are broadcast for families who gather to eat after the daytime fast, ensuring a maximum viewing audience.
Additionally, the so-called Bush tax cuts were extended through 2011 ensuring that most families will pay tax at a lower rate for at least one more year.
Memos leaked earlier this year suggest there are serious differences among Vatican officials over how far to go in ensuring financial transparency, according to media reports.
It has an interest in ensuring that his conservative National Action Party has little to show the voters in a congressional election next year.
The Stutes would be entitled to a fee should the 20-year-old depart, but Beck admitted that any funds recouped would be put to ensuring the club's short-term survival.
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