For now, most Britons will have to brace themselves for the occasional wi-fi rigmarole.

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Eventually, this will affect universities as well, which are already reorganising to brace themselves for greater competition.

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Doctors can continue to do no harm, while researchers brace themselves for exciting, and unsettling, times to come.

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Mr Obama and his advisers will be wondering as they brace themselves for a bout of Middle East diplomacy.

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However, countries along Africa's east coast had a number of hours to brace themselves for the arrival of the giant waves.

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This will endure over the next year as bankers brace themselves against a regulatory backlash after the excesses of the credit boom.

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Those subject to the rule need to move now to meet these new requirements, and should brace themselves for a significant amount of work.

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Market participants should brace themselves for a possible sell-off, Smith said.

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Friendly regimes around the Middle East brace themselves against public outrage.

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But Pakistanis should brace themselves for tougher times.

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Buyers and renters need to brace themselves for a season of slim pickings: but rather than jumping on the first home that seems good enough, they should focus on not making decisions that lead to regrets.

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Still, a former Fed official and a chief investment strategist note that investors better brace themselves for the second half of the year, when commodity prices and inflation begin to get out of hand and both consumers and earnings feel the pinch.

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Intel and AMD retained their positions as top dogs of the microprocessor market in the third quarter, as they brace themselves for what will be an all out war for dominance of the tablet and smartphone markets in the coming months and years.

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Barring a brace of long-range shots, the visitors offered little themselves.

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Brace yourself for more of the same: product pitches inside the shows themselves.

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