Despite a decade of surgeries, doctors have been unable to restore use of his hand.
Gold miners have been a difficult investment for the past several years, hurting investors despite a decade-long bull run in bullion.
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Despite a decade-long slowdown and then recession, which followed the collapse of the country's stockmarket in 1990-91, Japan remains the world's second-largest economy.
Despite a decade of growth that has created 2.7m new jobs, the numbers claiming jobseeker's and lone-parent benefits have fallen only modestly, and those on incapacity benefit are virtually unchanged.
Reliance, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, has been unable to get a massive gas-fired plant off the ground in northern India despite a decade of effort, because of land issues and fuel-shortage issues.
Delving into the relationship between caste and entrepreneurship, the researchers have found that scheduled castes and tribes, the most disadvantaged groups in Hinduism's hierarchy, owned very little businesses despite a decade of sprightly economic growth and a long history of affirmative action.
Despite a decade of loyal service and my thick wallet full of diamond and platinum travel membership cards, the airlines, hotels, and rental car agencies that see me week in and week out still ask me if I want a window seat, a smoking room, or the fuel option.
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Despite opening a decade ago, Hotel Gault is Montreal's hippest hotel, with only 30 rooms and a style all its own.
Still, the widespread cellphone service outages in Manhattan showed that America's wireless networks remain vulnerable in emergencies despite a half decade of efforts to shore them up.
The numbers revealed one consistent message across the whole industry: it has been continuously growing, particularly in the last decade despite the disruptive change brought by the Internet.
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All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.
Privately held companies in the U.S. are more profitable now than in the last decade despite slowing sales growth this year, according to a recent preliminary analysis of data from Sageworks Inc.
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The Guardian reports that Radio 1 has grown to its biggest audience for more than a decade despite the station's breakfast presenter Chris Moyles falling further behind his BBC Radio 2 rival, Chris Evans.
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In America, Edison, the market leader, has not made a profit in a decade, despite already running 79 schools.
Former Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been in prison for nearly a decade, despite repeated and ongoing efforts to get his conviction for money laundering overturned.
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Not least, Microsoft's share price is unchanged over the last decade (despite impressive revenue growth), thanks to concerns that Windows and Office are threatened by mobile devices and Internet-based applications.
We know from monitoring children's development for almost a decade that despite lots of money being spent in the early years, standards of early reading and mathematics development haven't increased.
Last year, Paul Robinson, chairman emeritus of Sandia National Laboratory, testified before Congress that the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons still cannot be guaranteed without testing them, despite more than a decade of investments in technological advancements.
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For example, the former president of a firm which was involved in a massive case of pension fraud in the late 1990s, recently testified that federal officials did little to stop the scheme despite spending almost a decade investigating it.
But despite being in her fourth decade as a trainer, Head is showing no signs of slowing down.
Many existing fossil-fuel plants will shut down in the next decade, and despite the drive for renewables and nuclear power, much of the replacement capacity will be fossil-fired.
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Despite being more than a decade older and an inch or two shorter than his other backcourt mates, the 6-foot-4 Kidd grabbed 9.3% of the available rebounds during his time on the floor.
But a decade later, despite financial and technical aid from the World Bank and sympathetic countries, this programme had completely failed due to inefficiency, corruption, resistance from peasants and the rise in the price of imported petroleum.
Despite these efforts, nearly a decade has passed since substantial new sources have entered production.
Wolff came from Williams, which is F1's third most successful team by titles won despite its swoon in the past decade.
The Blue Screen of Death still casts a negative halo around Windows despite basically disappearing from PCs a decade ago, after Windows XP arrived.
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The BBC also published details of how the service dealt with 126 grievance cases in the past decade - 22 remain outstanding despite being lodged several years ago.
Despite tremendous success for much of the past decade, the Eagles are desperately seeking their first NFL title since 1960.
Despite Paul Adams's moments over a decade ago, South Africa has lacked someone in that role since Hugh Tayfield in the 1950s.
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