This event is what it is -- the format being eight players, only men, indoors, round-robin -- it speaks for itself as being totally different from a grand slam.

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The central bank is used to being blasted, even for the idea of inflation-targeting itself.

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Of course, beyond impressing friends with the predictions, the algorithm has direct implications for the likes of Twitter itself -- being able to sell ads against trending topics could benefit the social media company enormously in its ongoing quest to monetize.

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In this market, the most likely outcome for any successful search start-up is being bought, likely by Google itself, says Gartner Research analyst Andrew Frank.

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The country's famous system of collective wage-bargaining, virtually unchanged for five decades, is itself being challenged, as employers seek more flexible settlements negotiated by individual companies and their workers.

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Now the WHO has taken the initiative with its Intervention Guide, in which the organisation's own classification of brain disorders itself in the process of being revised to make it simpler for non-specialists to use has been distilled into 100 pages of easy-to-follow flowcharts.

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