Nor did giving special grants to female business owners, as happened in Ghana.

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While we paid special attention to female entrepreneurs by sponsoring Women 2.0 PITCH, we know that all tech startups could likely use a helping hand in the early stages.

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In 1998 in Trinidad, Test Match Special employed its first female commentator, Barbadian Donna Symmonds.

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Donovan was asked to act as a special prosecutor to look into claims made by female members of the Brooklyn Democrat's staff after Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes recused himself.

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Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, acting as a special prosecutor to look into claims made by female members of the Brooklyn Democrat's staff, said his office found no basis for a chargeable offense.

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This misrepresentation is already a problem in action movies and TV shows, where the Special Forces or SWAT teams always have a kickboxing, sharpshooting female whose regulation uniform happens to be a low-cut camouflage t-shirt.

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Army opened the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment to women, and it has begun recruiting female pilots and crew chiefs.

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In part, this has been helped by the success of a special-forces operation which, on Tuesday, rescued a 19-year-old female American soldier who was missing in action near Nasiriya.

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