• In the first-ever Apprentice-style program about art, aired over four one-hour episodes, a panel of four judges winnows a field of thousands down to a group of six, who then get put through reality-show-like challenges, including life drawing and creating a work of public art at the British seaside.

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  • Taking advantage of the tough legal jobs market, the firm will build a network of thousands of non-staff lawyers, says Peter Pantaleo, the managing partner of the New York office.

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  • On their recommendation, a pension fund will invite three or four investment advisers, out of a universe of thousands, to pitch for a piece of its business.

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  • If you are trying to choose a boyfriend out of a herd of thousands, you may choose none of them.

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  • If you meet certain requirements, you will have the chance to refinance at lower rates, which could save you hundreds of dollars a month, and thousands of dollars a year on mortgage payments.

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  • The continuing success of companies like Textron, United Technologies and General Electric in a region where thousands of factories have shut down over the years is a testament to the adaptability of well-run enterprises.

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  • But their contributions of a few tens of thousands of dollars per year are dwarfed by a single source who is so important as to acquire his own set of capitals - the Anonymous Donor.

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  • But the trick could be scaled up to hundreds or thousands of fake signals, much like a denial-of-service attack that uses thousands of computers to choke a website with a flood of fraudulent requests for information, Costin says.

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  • But it also reflects a cosmopolitan tradition that has long been part of the character of this diverse Mediterranean port city, a thriving trading center for thousands of years and a place where 18 officially recognized religious sects live -- most of the time -- in a state of respectful coexistence.

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  • Vendors already have software for sales tax that must take into account a plethora of exemptions and a variety of rates over thousands of jurisdictions.

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  • Last summer, as Dibaba sprinted through the finish line to win gold in the 10, 000 meters at the London Olympics, Eshetu was watching proudly on a screen thousands of miles away.

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  • America has soldiers in Nevada piloting drones remotely that can strike a target thousands of miles and two continents away, but 97% of our veterans' benefits claims are still on paper.

    CNN: U.S. shamefully slow to help vets

  • The moment of silence also was recognized on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and in Boston, where lawmakers were shaken by the violent attack on a legislator thousands of miles away.

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  • "Gardenhire had no idea that the deceptively ordinary laser he had borrowed from a friend was powerful enough to be seen by, much less distract, a pilot thousands of feet away, " wrote attorney Sean Kennedy.

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  • On any given day, only 11 officers have these responsibilities in the U.S. Navy, and in the 100-year history of carrier operations, only a few of many thousands of naval aviators have served as carrier commanders.

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  • Given that Foxconn has always paid better than competing Chinese factories, it looks rather like just keeping up with the Joneses rather than responding to the outrage and fury of a few hipsters thousands of miles away.

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  • "You can debate the merits of the application but you cannot divorce the fact that the whole viability of the college depends upon the development of a site which thousands of people do not find acceptable, " he said.

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  • Imagine for a moment not just what these small gestures mean to a family, but what they mean to a soldier thousands of miles of away who knows that someone is looking out for the ones he loves back home.

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  • Outdoor performances of a 1937 play on the subject are a magnet for thousands of visitors to the North Carolina low country, a popular place for holidays.

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  • What's more, Nikon's Scene Recognition system draws upon the 420-pixel RGB color 3D Matrix Meter for outstanding exposures under a variety of lighting conditions by integrating a database of tens of thousands of sample images.

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  • Fortunately, there is a whole body of expertise and more than a decade of experience in thousands of organizations in deploying user stories to capture work goals.

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  • Offer the ordinary man in the street a salary of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, the opportunity to see the sunnier parts of the world for free and the option of retiring at 35 years old, and he would bite your hand off.

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  • It accuses him of asset stripping, of ruining a dream for thousands of Americans in order to make millions of dollars for himself.

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  • This is a great concept, but the only way to prove it is to run a phase 3 program with tens of thousands of patients over a number of years and demonstrate that the drug reduces these CV events.

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  • Once widely mocked for its sterility and ugliness, it has now become, in the collective memory of America, a hallowed gravesite for the thousands of people who died there--and a potent emblem of commerce, bowed but unbeaten.

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  • They enable water to be pumped in a network that runs between the horizontal layers of a stack and the thousands of vertical interconnections that carry information between its layers.

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  • To some extent this does depend upon the over capacity or not in the car manufacturing industry but believe me, the way things have been this past couple of decades a buyer looking for tens of thousands of cars a year can pretty much write his own price.

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