Holyland landlord Declan Boyle said while he would love to see Belfast's student land converted into a temporary athletes' village, he believes the organisers are cutting things fine.

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Meanwhile, as the Americans keep cutting costs and fine-tuning their calculations, European investors still hunt around for the most basic information.

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Eight overs later, de Villiers completed his fine 108-ball ton by cutting Daren Powell between backward point and square cover for four.

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Totally Bamboo's Samoa cutting board is harder than maple, fine-sanded to a silky finish and set with alternating light (natural) and dark (naturally caramelized) pieces.

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But Cook (17 not out) continued to look in superb touch, cutting Harris for six as England rounded off a fine day's work.

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By making efficiency savings in government and selling state-owned assets, Mr Brown said he could meet debt-cutting targets and he said it would be "fine" if certain programmes - relating to what he described as back-office and administrative functions - were cut.

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But as we learned in the disastrous HMO experiment of the 1990s, there is a fine line between managing care (a very good thing) and cost-cutting.

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If Morgan can be as direct and pithy in his nightly interviews as he was yesterday in cutting through years of corporate crap, he ought to do just fine.

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In the French race he was given a drive-through penalty for cutting a chicane and in Valencia last month he incurred a 5, 000 euros fine for being late to a news conference.

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