As a final exercise, ask yourself what all of the above have to do with earnings and the real economy.

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Guessing the final outcome will exercise even devoted students of game theory.

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Those who objected to the listing based their arguments on the grounds that the designation would deprive Maine residents the ability to exercise final authority over land use near rivers where salmon run.

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They were in the final night of a training exercise spread out of several days in California and Nevada when the accident occurred.

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The final item of the programme was a practical exercise in which participants divided in five groups competed in selecting a subject, writing a headline, intro and the first ten lines of the article.

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England captain Michael Owen has insisted that the 1-1 draw with South Korea was a useful exercise in Sven-Goran Eriksson's final preparations for the World Cup.

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That is because the countries of Europe, almost without exception, are signatories to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which obliges them to encourage "the effective exercise of civil, political, social, cultural and other rights and freedoms" abroad.

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