The result is a fast food trip through some of the numbers behind the US election.
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.
Professor Barbara Livingstone from the University of Ulster in Coleraine said we are only five years behind the US if we keep increasing at our current rate.
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The UK is still some way behind the US - where 50% of the population have home internet access - but the price war is encouraging more people to log on.
The UK remains the third biggest market for music behind the US and Japan - and the number of new albums sent to retailers in July, August and September 2003 reached an all-time high of 230 million.
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After briefly overtaking the US as the largest market in the world in 2011 with 30 per cent market share, China slipped to the number two slot in 2012 behind the US with 25 per cent market share following a slowdown in growth.
They embraced fiscal austerity aimed at slashing their debt and their recovery has lagged far behind the US. The U.K. Treasury just announced that they expected the economy to contract slightly in 2012, four years after the country first slipped into recession.
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China is the No. 2 corn producer behind the US. It produced around 6.2 billion bushels, or 158 million metric tons of corn in 2010, compared to world leading US production of 12 billion bushels, or 331 million metric tons in 2010, according to the US Grains Council, an industry lobby.
The UK has the second highest teenage pregnancy rate in the industrialised world, behind only the US, said Prof Reiss of the Institute of Education, University of London, and Prof Halstead, of Plymouth University.
But the fact that we have the group behind us, the fact that we have the comradeship that we have, it helps us cope with what's going on.
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Behind the scenes US diplomacy will no doubt continue to be furiously in demand.
"With the cliff behind us, the focus turns to spending, " Boehner told House Republicans.
As we have shown, the more we put the past behind us, the more we can focus on our future, which is in the core businesses in Citicorp.
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"A little bit lost for words, to receive an award from the man standing behind us with the cane, " Gotye said.
As we saw with this election, the College often gives a close contest a definitive end, which enables us to put the election behind us and move onward.
"The business community is behind us all the way, " Mr. Beal says, noting that the voting is not breaking down along partisan lines.
My mind beat back north, thinking of the puffins' flight, the lines we leave behind us, the spacious weave, our wake, then sleep.
Also, with the election behind us, much of the political interference that consumed Washington (and the market) in 2011, should be less prevalent as our elected officials work to reach an agreement.
Liquid Robotics, the US company behind the project, collected data about the Pacific Ocean's temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone.
In other words, the very worst of the housing recession is finally behind us but the recovery ahead is likely a long one.
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He added: "Last year we talked about this as a three-year programme but we're well ahead of where we expected to be and most of the reshaping work will be behind us by the autumn".
Now that the elections in Israel are behind us, the Palestinian authorities are willing to commit themselves, we shall make sure that both the United States and Europe can support the revival of negotiations that can lead to a two-state solution.
The debt-ceiling distraction now behind us, the real global economic story shifts to currencies.
That shows Finland, Monaco and Norway as the most generous supporters, with the US behind Ethiopia, one of the world's poorest countries, in the amount it gives.
The train continued on behind us, and the station depopulated as if neutron-bombed.
We've got all the scientists behind us, and Esa, who would love us to provide this instrument because we have the capability and the credibility to do it - and the Americans feel the same way.
That is the spirit of the gateway behind us, which in its architecture reflects all the beauty and strength of different faiths and traditions, and which has welcomed people to this city for a century.
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And while we rode the route and we smiled and we waved, the city workers were right behind us cleaning up the garbage. (Laughter.) It was a little depressing.
But they have since had to make do with second best behind Armstrong and the US Postal train.
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