With a simultaneous international release timed to coincide with the Diwali festival, the film is expected to be a lucrative box office hit.

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This census is a complicated task, with thousands of staff and simultaneous counts at waterholes.

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The aim is to get game developers to work with movie producers for a simultaneous release of a combined movie-game or related games and movies.

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Identifying human cases and isolating them quickly is important because the shortest route to a version of the disease that is dangerous to the whole of humanity rather than just vets and poultry farmers is simultaneous infection with both bird influenza and the human variety, and the exchange of genes between the two.

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