Over the next few years his firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, landed such hits as Hotmail and Kana Software, although it missed investing in still-bigger hits Ebay, Amazon and Yahoo.

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It recently renewed a standby credit facility for the government, although it is frustrated that the government has missed a series of target dates for the sale of key state assets.

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And, although Motherwell missed a series of half chances, it was the visitors who grabbed a 64th-minute consolation when Roshi ran on to a simple through ball and slotted past Michael Fraser.

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Although the group missed its window for a flotation in 2000, it has outlasted several competitors that went public but ran out of funds.

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In order to slow the Scots' attack, Argentina were forced to repeatedly infringe at the ruck and although Godman missed two tricky penalty attempts, he was successful shortly before the break to make it 6-0 to Scotland.

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He missed most of his wife's pregnancy, although he says he is now making up for it on frequent nappy changing duties.

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From Strauss's perspective, it was not so much the ball-throwing incident - although he does not condone that - but the missed run-out during the following over when Broad, still distracted and angry, fired the return wildly over Graeme Swann's head, and the opportunity was lost.

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