It might also be applied, in different ways, to the great number of people who have various cognitive problems due to neurodevelopmental disorders or neurodegenerative diseases.

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In cases of delays of more than three hours "likely due to heavy winds impairing two of the available runways at JFK, airlines will be forced to return customers to the gate in great number and this will result in thousands of customers grounded with their flights canceled, " said JetBlue spokesman Mateo Lleras via e-mail.

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"You have to give him credit for all he has done because he became a father, he became a husband, and still managed to win all the grand slams in the last year and be number one so yeah he's great what can I say, " he quipped.

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In the housing crisis, "as residential foreclosures really skyrocketed, the IRS saw a great increase in the number of organizations involved in foreclosure assistance" applying to be tax-exempt, Holly Paz, the IRS's director of rulings and agreements for its exempt-organizations unit, told a group of accountants last year.

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He is currently vying to be the number one England centre forward - so in terms of value, this is a great deal for us.

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Great Britain's best chance of winning gold at the Games will be in the skeleton bob, with world number one Alex Coomber gunning for the title.

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Another benefit is that a single number summarises what would otherwise be an immensely complicated picture, and one that varies a great deal (in quantitatively incommensurate ways) from country to country.

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Given the perilous state of a great number of corporate pension funds and the firms that stand behind them, many pensioners may be better off in the hands of well-capitalised and -regulated insurers, especially as official compensation is more generous if an insurer fails to honour its obligations than if a company goes bust leaving an underfunded pension scheme.

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