While West Brom, who they could meet at Wembley later in May if the Baggies beat Portsmouth in their own semi-final on Saturday, are in fourth place and are two points off second place and automatic promotion to the Premier League.

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Women have an automatic place... and in some areas of Paganism they are actually in charge.

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Honduras, who won 1-0 in El Salvador, took the third automatic place behind the US and Mexico in the North and Central America and Caribbean qualifying group.

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The point was enough for Italy to seal top spot in the group and an automatic place in the World Cup finals.

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However, a 2-1 final-day win over Reading a year later resulted in Blues clinching the second automatic promotion place from the Championship and an immediate return to the Premier League.

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In short, the fiscal cliff means an automatic end to the tax cuts put in place under George W., and automatic across-the-board cuts to the government budget, as promised in the August 2011 debt ceiling compromise.

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Wherever George Washington may have slept, if he were alive today the place would be surrounded by iron barricades, shut-down roadways and government sharpshooters bearing automatic weapons.

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The existing one automatic promotion place would be supplemented by play-offs between the ninth-placed team in the top tier and three teams in the second tier.

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