• Political analysts say the forum, at the very least, provided Bush a chance to avoid making the same mistake his father, former President George Bush, did when he appeared to focus more on the Persian Gulf War than on the economy.

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  • It's a chance to avoid the consumerism of holiday shopping.

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  • Until recently the best chance to avoid post-op impotence was so-called nerve-sparing surgery, a procedure pioneered in 1982 by Patrick Walsh, director of the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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  • The chances of male parent to baby transmission is small, especially using ICSI, but Dr Jean Cozzi, from Jean Verdier Hospital near Paris, said that the technique could provide reassurance to parents desperate to avoid even the slightest chance.

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  • Though holding Russian and Asian bonds in 1998 meant the market value of its portfolio took a beating, not selling gave the fund a chance to avoid long-term harm.

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  • And, this being Europe, there is every chance that the politicians will try to avoid discussing a lot of this with their electorates.

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  • Detroit seemed to have a good chance to avoid getting shut out in the eighth inning.

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  • Going into the final furlong, four teams had a chance of winning the title, while four other teams were bidding to avoid joining Surrey in the relegation places - but as it turned out, Durham's win at Canterbury not only won them the title but sent Kent down.

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  • In that way, the employer will have at least a 50 percent chance to win a lack of a quorum argument and avoid argument on the merits of the underlying decision.

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  • But if Pedrosa has any chance of winning the title, then Lorenzo has to avoid scoring any points on his Fiat Yamaha this weekend.

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  • Crystal's nervousness is understandable - though doctors say that if HIV-positive women take anti-retroviral drugs during their pregnancy and avoid breast-feeding, the chance of their baby carrying the virus is tiny.

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  • We gave it a second and third chance, each one accompanied by new warnings to avoid the power switch, but "don't touch" is an instruction better left for expensive china and hot burners than a children's camera.

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  • Leone Stars are second in Group 4 behind Nigeria with seven point and need to avoid defeat to stand a chance of qualifying for the next stage of the qualifiers as one of the best eight second-placed teams.

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  • No wonder that the brothers, who live in the same opulent apartment building, have separate lifts to avoid chance meetings.

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  • Bertarelli also has taken harsh criticism for tapping an unknown Spanish yacht club with virtually no chance of building a competitive team as the "challenger of record, " to avoid negotiating with stronger teams like Oracle.

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  • As hopes that credit cards would avoid the pain felt in mortgages have dwindled, so has any chance of the industry avoiding a political backlash.

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  • He said omissions in the document meant Baghdad was "well on its way to losing this last chance" to avoid military action.

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  • So long as you can avoid getting into an accident, none of the high-acceleration Karts stand a chance.

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  • Before trial, the Amish all rejected plea agreements that offered leniency, with some young mothers turning down a chance to avoid prison altogether.

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  • "It was important to make an early decision in order to give parents a chance to plan alternative arrangements and avoid children turning up at school on Tuesday morning to find it closed, " the statement said.

    BBC: Schools braced for fresh snowfall

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