Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya is always tough on tires, but even Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery felt that the level of pit stops -- with Alonso changing tires four times -- was too much.

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Capacity building, through artisan and designer collaboration, transferred and honed the skill level of the craftspeople in pit-loom woven fabric, chunri making skills, embroidery and ralli-making and developed designs to attract the contemporary market demands.

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All of these legislative battles, which pit one part of the Democratic coalition against another, give the GOP openings to win at the tactical level, to stall, modify or defeat particularly bad pieces of legislation.

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