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  • Emily Piacquadio stayed in line despite receiving a call from a friend saying the race was off.

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  • And despite critics who call Psystar "shady, " company president Rudy Pedraza insists his business is for real.

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  • It won't be easy despite what critics call a record of misrule by the remote Mayawati, an icon for India's Dalits.

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  • The announcement comes despite a recent call from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to review the decision to axe the MLA as part of cuts.

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  • "No one went to the aid of this boat, despite a distress call logged by the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, which pinpointed the boat's position, " the report said.

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  • Despite a telephone call from Madeleine Albright, America's secretary of state, to offer her services, no progress was made on the nagging issue of how to handle the Greek-Turkish quarrels over ownership of uninhabited islands close to the Turkish coast and oil rights under the Aegean.

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  • He has refused to budge, despite America's call for Spain and other allies to stay in Iraq and not be cowed by terrorism.

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  • The protestors say that Obama wants to promote a free trade agreement, long dead between the two countries, and aired concern of a potential US attack on Libya despite a cease fire call by Gadhafi.

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  • Head doorman Mark West, who was the first official first aider on the scene, told the inquest he did not know Mr Pueschel had stopped breathing and chose to eject one of his friends for being "aggressive", despite being urged to call an ambulance.

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  • Despite Mr Wahid's call for unity and more equal sharing of wealth, violence flared in Jakarta.

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  • Despite desperate pleas of the call center operator, the nurse refuses to do CPR and the resident dies.

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  • John Riccitiello, CEO of EA, recently held a call with investors to reassure them that despite a bad year, there will still be a market for big AAA games, particularly when the next generation of consoles are released.

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  • According to IRIS, the pen should be able to translate paragraphs or whole documents copied to the Windows clipboard -- but despite exhaustive testing and a call to tech support, I couldn't get it to translate even a paragraph of text.

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  • On December 10th a long-planned 24-hour strike by public-sector unions went ahead despite Mr Karamanlis's televised call for it to be cancelled.

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  • In the first four hours, telesales staff at their Newcastle centre had taken 10, 000 reservations, despite an earlier fault with the call lines.

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  • First of all, despite the success of blockbusters like Call of Duty, it has been a tough 12 months for the games industry - or at least for those parts of it relying on traditional console games.

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  • Warfighter is not Call of Duty, nor is it Battlefield, despite what you might think.

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  • Arty had hoped Jimmy Denton would call, but after his conversation with Meredith, despite his importuning eyes, the stolid black machine remained mute.

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  • Despite criticism of the format, the call-in show took off, and by 1985, the Association of Media Psychologists was created to monitor for abuses.

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  • This heavy-handed optimism and skew toward overhead call open interest indicates that investors expect MGM to rally despite its poor technical picture.

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  • Despite ongoing efforts to avert what some lawmakers call a constitutional crisis, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said there was no political talk over a dinner of duck al'orange at Frist's home.

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  • Despite this, for now, prosecutors will not call witnesses on the EDTA matter.

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  • Good call: Jilted by satellite TV broadcaster EchoStar, invested in Primestar despite regulatory hurdles.

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  • Not long afterwards, Sir Patrick Moore called him to give him advice on telescopes and such, and despite being football fans, we thought getting a phone call from Patrick Moore was so much cooler than David Beckham... we were never particularly cool at school!

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