• The key will be to ensure that the making-up is more heartfelt than the breaking-up.

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  • Having given up on the single-payer system, liberals resist breaking up the employer-provided model because it represents the next closest thing.

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  • This ground-breaking public-private link-up is an example of the kind of competition in providing degrees that ministers want to encourage.

    BBC: Private university to offer degree through FE college

  • So Qwest's best scenario may be a two-part play, breaking up its local and long-distance businesses and reducing debt along the way to make the remaining pieces more attractive.

    FORBES: Call It Quits, Qwest

  • As a rite of passage, the record-breaking Red Bull event built pent-up attention at least twice as we waited for the balloon to launch Baumgartner into space.

    FORBES: Felix Baumgartner Launches Own Brand In Record Time

  • Rather, we should be appreciative for what should be the proverbial camel's back-breaking straw: A final wake-up call, one that establishes unmistakably that it is neither in the United States' strategic, national security nor economic interests for this country and other industrialized nations to continue relying upon imported oil from those who wish to do us harm.

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  • Some hawks in the Justice Department are expected to demand a "structural" remedy--breaking the company up into smaller and less dangerous pieces.

    CNN: Gates gets slammed

  • More radical reforms, like breaking up too-big-to-fail financial firms and returning to Glass-Steagall-type restrictions, which are needed to stave off asset bubbles and tame systemic risk, may be politically difficult to implement.

    FORBES: Doctor Doom

  • They spent the beginning of the second period encamped in Everton's half and two Drogba free-kicks came close to breaking the deadlock - the first picked up well by Howard, the second headed wide by Lampard.

    BBC: Chelsea 1-1 Everton (aet)

  • The problem is that making them using somatic-cell nuclear transfer involves breaking up viable embryos, since the cells in question are found inside early-stage embryos, called blastocysts.

    ECONOMIST: Human embryonic stem cells

  • Unlocking a phone is distinct from a practice known as "jail-breaking" that opens up a phone so software from unofficial sources can be run on it.

    BBC: US phone unlocking deadline expires

  • Henman, who had beaten the Thai six times in their last seven games, was in control from the start, breaking to go 4-2 up and winning the first set 6-3.

    BBC: SPORT | Tennis | Henman safely past Srichaphan

  • Some cardinals have suggested restructuring the Curia's chain of command, breaking up the all-powerful post of secretary of state, which was held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone under Pope Benedict XVI.

    WSJ: Cardinals Gather, Facing Varied Agendas

  • Weill said in an interview on CNBC Monday that the idea of breaking up Citigroup was ill-considered.

    FORBES: Weill Springs To Citi's Defense

  • Breaking down barriers--by standing up for her ideas, pitching to a client or even asking for an office--is depicted as exhilarating.

    FORBES: Mad Men--Why Gen Y Women Need To Tune In

  • The "detergent" action of soap comes from its ability to attach to oily, grimy surfaces, with the "water-hating" end breaking up molecules at that surface.

    BBC: Magnetic soap could help in oil spill clean-ups

  • The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) wants the government to scrap the test - it says that breaking up families is more damaging than some migrants not speaking English.

    BBC: Does migrants' English test split families?

  • Conventional wisdom dictates that a starting pitcher needs at least a fastball, a breaking ball, and a change-up to stymie major-league hitters, but the 22-year-old Miller has thrived by leaning almost exclusively on his heater and curve.

    WSJ: Shelby Miller: It Only Takes Two Pitches to Become an Ace

  • Leeds' Mark Viduka - one of eight British-based players in Frank Farina's starting line-up - held the ball up brilliantly before delivering an overhead pass into the path of the breaking Bresciano who volleyed home.

    BBC: Australia 1-0 South Africa

  • Moved by the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients, the doctor gave up his job as an anaesthetist to set up a ground-breaking palliative care system that has now spread across the state.

    BBC: Bringing hope to elderly and terminally ill Indians

  • Stead's innovations as editor of the Gazette included incorporating maps and diagrams into a newspaper for the first time, breaking up longer articles with eye-catching subheadings and blending his own opinions with those of the people he interviewed.

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  • Though Willkie lost the battle--he was forced to sell a large part of his company to the TVA--and Roosevelt succeeded in breaking up many of the holding companies, most of America's electricity continued to be generated by the private sector.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • While it defends its turf on highway funding, ARTBA also is also pushing a proposal for a "critical commerce corridors" program, a long-term initiative focused on breaking up bottlenecks, widening roads, expanding access routes to airports and seaports and other projects related to freight movement.

    FORBES: Concrete Proposals

  • That said, today's banking White Paper from the Treasury, which translates Vickers into firm policy, contains all sorts of other measures to limit the exposure of taxpayers to our banks - such as ring-fencing retail operations, so-called resolution procedures for breaking up banks in a crisis, and forcing banks to hold more debt able to absorb the losses that are generated when things go horribly wrong.

    BBC: Osborne and the safe size for British banks

  • In 2009, 39 years after breaking up, they sold the third-highest number of albums of any act in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, with 3.3 million copies sold.

    WSJ: Apple Gets Rights to Sell Digital Beatles Music

  • In fact, if the anti-trust authorities are keen on breaking up part of Brasil Foods, there is no doubt that Carrefour and CBD would be forced to sell off its assets.

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  • Last year, police destroyed a sanctuary of the sect in Kayanza - its stronghold - and its followers retaliated by breaking up a Sunday service at a local Catholic church, she says.

    BBC: Burundi map

  • The states so strongly believe they are right in the case that they are seeking "nuclear-weapon-like remedies" such as breaking up the company or forcing it to license the source code for Windows, Mr Kovacic said.

    BBC: News | The Company File | Microsoft ruling imminent

  • When they're not on their feet setting up and breaking down the 10-by-5-foot retail space, or checking the generator, they're looking for new places to show or ensuring their permits, licenses and knowledge of local codes are current.

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  • All that said, the NAO's criticism of the nationalisation and break-up of the bank is largely restricted to a failure by the then Labour government to fully investigate the financial consequences of breaking up the bank into a so-called good bank and a bad bank.

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