In exchange Malone received UPC's Irish cable assets, a closer geographical match to his U.K. cable company, Telewest.
Threats became more ambiguous, political support for military spending waned, emerging enemies did not try to match U.S. military technology, and the economy lost strength.
Further, a study in Colorado suggests 62 percent of doctors changed their advice to match the U.S. guideline and 16 percent fewer women got the test.
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Bush said his administration will fully fund high priority areas for scientific research into climate change over the next five years, and help developing nations to match the U.S. commitment.
And even if the government was able to sponsor enough rapid U.S. economic growth to match all time record highs, that still would not be enough to generate enough taxes to afford current levels of government spending.
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Now, it is time for President Obama to reject the counsel of such agents of influence and demonstrate a U.S. resolve to match the courage of Iran's freedom fighters.
The incidence of attacks in Afghanistan set record numbers in 2007 and remains on pace to match those figures this year, according to statistics from the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, obtained by CNN.
The 29-year-old is yet to start a match for the U's since agreeing a short-term contract over the summer.
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Inflating U.S. salaries to match the mandatory inflated salaries for foreign nationals is a possible response, but with only so much compensation within a company to go around, it would then likely result in less hiring overall, again, not good for U.S. professionals.
It seemed to provide a focus on long-term investment and management techniques that U.S. corporations could not match and from which it was thought that U.S. management needed to learn if they were going to survive.
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This has happened because there has been a push by companies looking to match cash flows, and just as in the loan market, U.S. investors are only really open to European companies with dollar revenues.
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At 30, Federer is elegantly fighting the sunset he's still capable of beating both, pushing Nadal to four sets in the semis, beating Djokovic in the French and taking him to match point in the past two U.S. Opens.
Elsewhere, Sam Querrey survived an almighty scare to win his first match since becoming the U.S. No.1.
The U.S. men's beach volleyball team defended the honor of their gender by winning gold to match the American women, but the U.S. baseball team was trounced by Cuba in the semifinal.
It should be noted that the Austrian and the Swiss teams have a depth that the U.S. hasn't been able to match but that, too, seems to be changing.
Ten minutes into the second half, Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto wanted referee Joel Aguilar of El Salvador and match commissioner Victor Daniel of Grenada to suspend the game, but U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann made a case for playing on.
Last year, he became the first U.S. junior champion in decades to win a match in the main draw.
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Once seen as a messiah destined to save U.S. soccer from perennial mediocrity, Adu rose to fame at age 14 by becoming one of the youngest players in decades to appear in a professional U.S. sports match.
The youngster rolled home a clutch birdie putt on the 16th to halve the hole and stay in the match, but former U.S. Open champion Ogilvy would not be denied and earned a semifinal place with another birdie on the 17th.
And though these German sides undeniably earned their respective berths in the finals as they blitzed Spanish stalwarts Barcelona and Real Madrid in the UEFA semifinals, and while German soccer enthusiasts worldwide will pridefully watch this first-ever all-German Champions final, I suspect that TV ratings in the U.S. for the final match will suffer for the match compared to the last few seasons.
From his first U.S. amateur title in 1994 to last weekend's Match Play win, the superlatives about Tiger Woods continue to mount and mount.
Likewise, Iran is unlikely to block the strait for long because it is no match for the U.S. Navy and its allies patrolling the Persian Gulf.
At Germany 2006, Ghana became the only African survivor after the preliminary round, surprising the bookmakers with victories over the Czech Republic and the U.S. before losing 3-0 to Brazil in a match that was closer than the scoreline suggested.
Azarenka won 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-3 to snap a 10-match losing streak against Williams, which included the U.S. Open final.
Even though Euroland represents an economic unit that can match the U.S. on paper, it does not follow that the euro will be able to challenge the dollar as an international currency.
In his first match in New York since losing in the 2011 U.S. Open final, Nadal returns Monday to face Juan Martin del Potro in the annual BNP Paribas Showdown, with Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka as the undercard.
In that 2003 U.S. Open, he was down two sets to love and fought off a match point in a five set semifinal against David Nalbandian.
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In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to match his promises of a cease-fire with "action on the ground" and exert greater control over militant Palestinian factions.
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