This is a very positive development heading into next year, but it is not a permanent victory.

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Charles "Chuck" Shear, who is heading up torcetrapib's development at Pfizer, cites several reasons the company is hopeful.

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"The picture is very rosy indeed for snooker, " added Hearn, who also revealed he was heading out to Las Vegas next week to discuss potential development in the United States.

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In mid-March, however, a second German candidate, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development president Horst Koehler, looked set to continue the tradition of a European heading the IMF.

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The roads to Helena, Arkansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, two towns on opposite sides of the Mississippi that played big roles in the development of the blues, have been widened and slathered with new coats of asphalt to enable them to handle traffic heading to the casinos that have proliferated like kudzu along the riverbanks.

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