Having pressed for sanctions, America needed something to show for its efforts.
On Sept. 11, TheraSense of Alameda, California, which sells glucose-monitoring systems for diabetics, was doing a road show for its initial public offering.
Nonetheless, the National Gallery managed to persuade the usually intractable Galleria Borghese in Rome to part with two trademark works in return for lending them its Raphaels for a future show.
Was this a story waiting for its star to show up?
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Yet it is a respected community bank with an 80-year tradition of serving its market and a very solid financial performance to show for its efforts.
Apple lawyer Orin Snyder sharply disputed the government's claims, saying the company had been waiting eagerly for its chance to show it had enhanced competition and improved the e-book industry.
Kampung Kuantan, a sleepy hollow in Kuala Selangor, 75 km north of the capital, is famed for its firefly "show": thousands of the winged beetles appear each night along the Selangor River, flashing their glowing tails.
Up on the main stage, the Americana group the Lumineers, still riding the success of its 2012 self-titled debut album, drew an enormous crowd for its Sunday afternoon show, perhaps the largest for any daytime set and a rare moment in which traditional acoustic music was celebrated.
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Whatever the reasons for its popularity, the show made Starz programming executives very happy, and they use it as a model for how original programming should draw people into what seems to be just another movie channel.
Rather, a statuette provides buzz and bragging rights for a show, its studio and its host network.
But three years later, the project has little to show for its efforts.
The deals have left Credit Suisse with little to show for its money.
There was plenty of time with just two games across the three day tournament for IBM to show its stuff.
Note, for instance, that its vertical axes show nominal prices (dollars per ounce for gold, index value for the tech-stock Nasdaq).
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Worse, Microsoft has not got much to show for its huge investments in online search, the killer application in Google's cloud.
The eMO won praise at North American International Auto Show for its roomy interior, swooping windshield and front-opening rear doors.
It will, no doubt, have megawattage to show for its untold billions.
On Tuesday, the NRA withdrew its support for the show due to the decision by organizers to ban modern sporting rifles from exhibition.
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Mr Huberman's group already has something to show for its efforts.
The ICO certainly has some successes to show for its work.
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Alas, the breakdown of the peace process has left the region with nothing to show for its capital letters but a hefty helping of alphabet soup.
The problem is that, so far, Microsoft does not have much to show for its plans, says Brent Thill, director of software research at Citi Investment Research.
So if, for instance, its numbers show China's share of world Internet users is half what the CIA's numbers show, Net Applications would count each Chinese browser in its data twice.
New York finally had something to show for its efforts when Richards cleaned up a loose puck in front to get the Rangers within a goal at 5:43 of the second.
If one observes the smartphone market closely, one will see that Apple absolutely cannot release anything new at this juncture because Apple must wait for all its competitors to show their hands.
Over the past two years, Perry has been let loose inside what the museum's boss Neil MacGregor calls "one of the great imaginative storehouses of the world, " free to pick and choose items for his show from its immense collection.
Though Valve's hired a team just for hardware purposes (20 to 30 people, including new hires and Valve vets, comprise said team), the company doesn't have anything to show for its efforts just yet (at least on the VR front).
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The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has been almost too patient in developing a standard for for its eponymous technology -- efforts began 17 months ago -- but it at last has more than good intentions to show for its work.
America may have five times as many biotech firms as Britain, and scores of real products to show for its efforts (only one British firm, Chiroscience, actually has a drug on the market), but Britain has its own powerhouses around Oxford and Cambridge, and in Surrey and central Scotland, to compare with American clusters around Boston and San Francisco.
The Labor Day parade in Milford is most famous for its pig roast, not for any politicians who show up.
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