Tropical storm warnings were discontinued early Sunday as Allison died down, but forecasters warned that the storm could pick up strength again as it chugged across the warm, open water of the Gulf toward southern Louisiana.

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This business is likely to pick up on the strength of hybrid tablet-notebooks and Ultrabooks in the long term, but the company will show slow PC sale growth in the short term.

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We're not even offered speculation as to how the President could foresee that Monica Lewinsky would be on a witness list, and pick up a symbol of strength while in Vancouver so that he could give it to her as a reminder to deny their relationship in the face of some future, unforseen federal subpoena.

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Instead of running back to academia, Warren went on to challenge Scott, who had been the surprise winner of the 2010 election to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy, riding into office on the strength of a telegenic pick-up truck, and the support of the suddenly powerful Tea Party.

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The weather service said they would likely pick up Thursday night, though with less strength than the previous night.

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The linearity of the core story becomes clear during a second playthrough, but here the relatively short duration of each episode is a strength: it is possible to take different sides and pick different fights to elicit different responses over the episode without finding the situational repetition tedious over these short stretches.

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One way to minimise the cost of shareholder activism, says Bernard Black, at Stanford Law School, would be for institutions to put their strength behind initiatives that affect hundreds of companies, not just pick on a few.

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Strength: Lifting weights can help build muscle strength so you can get up from a chair by yourself or pick up your grandchildren.

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Renaissance expects the number of IPOs to pick up later in the year, because of the super top secret JOBS Act SEC filings and strength in the stock markets.

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