During his first term, Obama's annual budget proposals prompted immediate opposition from Republicans -- and Democrats at times -- that rendered ineffective the early year exercise of outlining his spending priorities.
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Cuba-watchers reckon that, after a slow start, the debate has been franker and more wide-ranging than the last such exercise held in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the island's sponsor.
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The country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and both the leading candidates voted early in the day, calling on Iranians to exercise their right to choose the country's next president.
And most memorably of course back in the early 1990s, and I still have the scars to show from that exercise.
Those who bought the stock, particularly in the early part of the summer before trading and investing in FB became a bottom-picking exercise, did so based on expectations that have almost certainly been dashed against the rocks by now.
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In the case of an emerging manager, the exercise is of particular importance since often these firms are at an early stage in their development and lack the staffing and infrastructure that more established firms will have had time to develop.
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Arab ire had already been raised by the joint Turkish-Israeli-American naval exercise early this month.
But the festival wasn't just an exercise in revisiting early memories of technology.
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In early July Russia staged a massive military exercise on the border with South Ossetia.
ROBOT, in some ways an early exercise in Thatcherism, which Mr Hennessy describes as the economic equivalent of Suez.
Target Ovarian Cancer, which conducted a mapping exercise of the disease this summer, also welcomed the promise of early tests.
In "I Am Sick of All This Too, " for example, the staccato riffing recalls the band's early experiments in structure, but also features a mantra-like vocal exercise a variation technique Spiers has developed on more recent albums.
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Early rising also means a built-in block of exercise time, which pays dividends in the boardroom.
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