With an excellent start that saw him catapult from seventh place into fourth, followed by Mark Webber's retirement shortly thereafter, Alonso was able to deliver a solid drive and finish third, one place behind Vettel.

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In May, the coalition said it was changing from its proposed "catapult and trap" planes to jump jets.

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As ever, the Windies looked to Gayle to kick-start their innings and the tall left-hander did not disappoint, as he smashed 36 runs off two overs from Tim Bresnan and Tremlett to catapult his team to 50-0 off five overs.

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What's more, even with sagging ratings--Idol averaged some 25 million viewers this season, down from 30 million three years ago--the singing competition continues to catapult its host network to No. 1 among viewers aged 18 to 49, a demographic advertisers pay a premium to reach.

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"By building communities and generating more awareness about the growing start-up ecosystem in Chicago, we will be able to attract more development talent from the local universities and other areas throughout the country, " says entrepreneurRyan Leavitt, Catapult's co-founder and president.

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But even to my trend-defying, label-resistant outlook, the most stunning aspect of less than 20 minutes of runway confections was its potential to catapult the best of Scottish textile manufacturing and artisan craftsmanship into a big, opulent international league, far away from the land of austerity.

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