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  • Querrey won their 2010 encounter -- a dead rubber as the Serbs had already won through -- and this time came back from 2-1 down to triumph 7-6 (7-1) 3-6 4-6 6-1 6-4 and level the score.

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  • With 480 volts, a near-dead car can be recharged in the time it takes to shop for organic peanut butter.

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  • Rodriguez, however, made history, hitting a massive 410-foot home run to dead center field, tying Ken Griffey Jr. for fifth place on the all-time home run list with 630 homers.

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  • Then he had a number of dead-end jobs, drawing cartoons in his spare time and eventually making enough from them to live on.

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  • It has also been used to offer help and collate data on the dead, the injured and the missing - at a time when phone lines were often jammed.

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  • In a non-negotiable six minutes, long answers equal dead time and a sharp reduction in the amount of questions you can ask.

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  • And every time I teach certain stories - I mean, for example, James Joyce's The Dead, which I talk about in the book as the perfect story to go to if, for example, you want to write a party scene, which party scenes are very difficult to write.

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