At one level, arm's-length operations might have made sense.

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Its programs opened up American politics at the state and local level to the long arm of Washington as never before, involving the federal government in everything from the construction of city parks to the curriculum and funding of local schools.

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While the park has added newer amusements, most visitors come for the vintage attractions, including a two-tier carousel built in 1921, the Talaia, which raises guests with a rickety metal arm to a height of 550m above sea level, and the iconic Avio ride, modelled on the first plane to fly between Barcelona and Madrid.

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Incorporating 72 custom NVIDIA GeForce GPU cores and the first quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, Tegra 4 delivers record-level performance, outstanding graphics, and great battery life to mobile devices.

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The ICC also confirmed it would not relax the five-degree 'level of tolerance' for a spin bolwer's arm.

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It was speculated in some quarters the ICC would increase a spin bowler's level of tolerance - the extent to which he can straighten his arm - from five degrees to the paceman's amount of 10.

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The selectors felt right-arm finger spinners would perform well in India and Jason now has a chance to prove himself at the international level.

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