• The Laeken summit has launched another big attempt to restructure the European Union.

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  • Almost everything big we attempt now is much, much more complex and expensive than anything our ancestors could have ever imagined.

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  • This second tumor shrinkage finding could be important for the minority of patients whose metastases are only slightly too big to attempt a curative surgery.

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  • His entire economic agenda is one big and desperate attempt to boost American consumption.

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  • There has never been a successful hostile takeover attempt among big European banks.

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  • Not running a charity, and financed by "greedy investors" looking to make big profits, they attempt to compensate themselves by charging "loan-shark" rates of 80%.

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  • UBS's stake will deter a takeover attempt by a big international bank only for a couple of years.

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  • Directors of local high schools and community colleges seem to grasp and depict the majesty of Les Mis far better than every sequential attempt on the big screen.

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  • This time the Nevada desert will not be big enough, so the attempt will take place over an even larger expanse of flat ground at Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape in South Africa, perhaps next year.

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  • Unlike in neighbouring Iraq, sectarian rifts have not so far played a big role in Syria's attempt at regime change.

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  • Its attempt to be as big and brash as the actual tournament is overbearing and tackling this many graphics will daunt low-bandwidth users.

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  • But at least it shows that Republicans and Democrats can still sit down together in an attempt to tackle the big challenges facing our nation.

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  • Inter may have won the Champions League in 2010, but offloaded star striker Samuel Eto'o to Russian big spenders Anzhi Makhachkala in an attempt to cut their wage bill.

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  • Anti-environmentalists see it as an attempt to turn kids against big business.

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  • It is Gas Natural's third attempt to hook up with a big partner in Spain's rapidly consolidating power industry, having been rebuffed by Endesa in 2005 and Iberdrola in 2003.

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  • "I like brands that have a go, and Starbucks is trying to break the conventions of selling coffee in big coffee chains - it's a solid attempt to get closer to the customer, " Guilar adds.

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  • This blog is my attempt to uncover the little stories of people with big dreams, while also exposing those who make the American dream seem so unattainable.

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  • Breathing room A BIG BOOST for Oxygen Media, Geraldine Laybourne's ambitious attempt to create women's programming in a converged format for the Internet and cable TV (Feb. 22).

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  • And he did so as someone who truly loved the original, who respected his source material, and who as a general rule carved it with the grain and not against it in his attempt to shape it into the needs of a big budget film trilogy.

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  • Ever active at age 90, Kerkorian has bought up big stakes in both Chrysler and General Motors in recent years, in attempt to shake up management before selling out.

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  • Wednesday is the big day they unveil the result of a massive, long-awaited attempt to regain lost ground in the smartphone wars against Apple, Android and Samsung, with the release of BlackBerry 10.

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  • Channel 4 will take more risks in an attempt to find new hit shows to fill the gap left by Big Brother, its chief executive has pledged.

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  • The majority report also acknowledges that another major question that grew out of the election was left unanswered: whether a big increase in "issue advocacy" advertising by nonprofit groups was an improper attempt to influence the outcome of elections, and whether the groups' "independent expenditures" were truly independent of the campaigns they benefited.

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  • The biggest failure, though, has been in the attempt to convince banks, even those in which the government has a big stake, to lend to firms.

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  • This is not his first attempt: he launched a similar scheme in 1999 to rescue more than 30 big, sickly firms.

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  • Second attempt was to buy Yahoo, but Ballmer bungled that with an ego as big as his head, and probably a hundred execs and managers below him advising him .

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  • Abbey National, once a dull but solid British building society (thrift), moved into wholesale banking in an attempt to reduce its dependence on its traditional mortgage business, only to suffer big losses in high-yield credit and other novel businesses.

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  • In an attempt to lure viewers back to prime time, McPherson and his team are betting big on a genre the network's had scant success with of late: the situation comedy.

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  • Doubters for the most part are big fans of the medieval warm period, and see in the climate scientists' arguments an attempt to rewrite history so as to maximise the drama of today's warming and minimise the possibility that natural variation might explain the 20th-century record.

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  • Several of the big hotel companies including Marriott International have said they will raise room rates in the coming quarters to attempt to boost revenue after coming out of the post-2008 period that sent profits and revenues down.

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