• With choices like Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin and now Ryan, the GOP has shown a propensity for picking complete duds for that role and in effect shooting itself in the foot.

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  • An Oracle announcement on Monday declared the resignation of Jeff Epstein and the induction of President Safra Catz to the CFO role, with immediate effect.

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  • We also indicated that we acknowledged the role performed by central banks of different countries, and more particularly, in the recent past, the role of the European Central Bank, the role performed to the effect of ultimately preventing a liquidity crisis of substantial proportions, which would thus affect all countries adversely.

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  • But such a decision would have been a blow to Miss Megawati, who was in effect given this role at the beginning of his presidency but has failed in it.

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  • If he were to step down pending resolution of the crisis at News Corporation, it is likely he would be replaced by BSkyB's senior non-executive director, Nick Ferguson - who in effect played that role in BSkyB's board discussions over News Corporation's attempt to purchase all of BSkyB.

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  • The anti-inflammatory effect may have a role in other diseases as well.

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  • The net effect of Gorbachev's role in this bidding war is not only to exacerbate divisions within the country and to increase the risks associated therewith.

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  • Billie Piper is nominated for her role in clinical drugs trial drama The Effect, while the best actress category is completed by Hattie Morahan for A Doll's House and Kristin Scott Thomas for Old Times.

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  • It has already resolved, in effect, to abdicate its role as opposition during the three-month implementation period of the redeployment agreement, and will supply Mr Netanyahu with the necessary votes in the Knesset to make up for any defections from his ranks.

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  • But with Mass Effect, players take on the lead role.

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  • Most certainly these legal-effect campaigns and actions raised awareness about the role that culture plays in economic development.

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  • But he now believed that it could best play that role by getting other nations to work with it to effect a global transformation.

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  • He said that he hoped that as the welfare reforms began to take effect, there would be more positive "role models" of people who had been long-term unemployed and had got back into work, who could help ease concerns among others.

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  • How do you now want to effect that positive change for Alaska from outside the role as governor?

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  • Likewise, increased use of the osteoporosis drug raloxifene (Evista), which has also been shown to have a protective effect against breast cancer, could have played a role.

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  • Above all, America must lead efforts to grapple with the global recession, through its dominant position at the IMF, its vital role in resisting the siren call of protectionism and the stimulative effect of the vast government outlays Mr Obama is planning.

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  • Moreover, despite the obvious role of contraception as a proximate determinant of fertility, the additional effect of contraceptive availability or family planning on fertility is quantitatively small and explains very little cross country variation.

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  • According to James Schlesinger, former defense secretary and energy secretary, the service chiefs were not specifically polled before-the-fact on the question of whether they would support such a treaty an example of the perverse effect of the Goldwater-Nicholls Act in downgrading the role of service chiefs.

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  • According to James Schlesinger, former defense secretary and energy secretary, the service chiefs were not specifically polled before-the-fact on the question of whether they would support such a treaty -- an example of the perverse effect of the Goldwater-Nicholls Act in downgrading the role of service chiefs.

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  • Yet one effect of the continuing violence across Indonesia could be that the role of the military, previously on the decline, will rise again.

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  • Mobile phones are in effect handheld and connected computers and hold great potential in this role, since businesses in promising areas such as payments and banking, healthcare, and entertainment require combining the services of multiple providers.

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  • By deploying so many large, economical aircraft from a vast base, open around the clock and halfway between Europe and Asia, Emirates could in effect run a global hub, reducing European airports to a feeder role and impoverishing their associated flag carriers.

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  • The high court has traveled from its activist role supporting government-enforced segregation to laissez-faire interpretations that allow demographic changes in effect to result in the resegregation of public schools, legal analysts and civil rights experts say.

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  • Kirkland played a crucial role in the peaceable collapse of communism in Poland during the 1980s, which began the domino effect that ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall.

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  • In effect, the silver certificates were fiat money differing from greenbacks only because the historic role of silver as money made it more acceptable to increase the money supply by buying silver rather than by openly issuing fiat money.

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  • But it also brings the shadow effect, making it difficult for others to grow while it exercises such a powerful magnetic role.

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  • We don't yet know which species will benefit, and which will suffer in response to the changes, but because each species plays a specific ecological role on the tundra, the downfall of one species or proliferation of another could have a domino effect that disrupts the tundra's delicate food web.

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  • The precise effect of all these things is a matter of controversy, but they almost certainly all played a role.

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  • At the time they held the hearings, lawmakers said they were worried about the effect that steroid use among Major League Baseball players could have among young people who viewed them as role models.

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  • "Those water masses play a very important role in the present-day status of the ice pack and changes in the delivery would have an influence and effect on ice distribution, " said Weingartner.

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