• When it comes to marathon swimming, there's an even stronger argument for staying with the pack: It allows you to prevent others from drafting off you and preserve their strength at your expense.

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  • Montgomery lobbied Scott designers for a new line of bikes targeted at triathletes. (These bikes are more aerodynamic--with tear-shaped tubes instead of round ones--because, unlike cycling racers, triathletes are prohibited from drafting, or riding single file to beat wind resistance.) The market is tiny, but triathletes are visible and voluble.

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  • With a brand new home secretary, a Home Office already suffering from acute legislative drafting fatigue and an election around the corner, the dangers of Number 10 rushing to meet the deadline of March 14th (when the existing detention powers expire) should have been obvious.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The trouble is that drafting players from college isn't an exact science: Even after combing through game film, putting players through grueling physical drills and conducting interviews, the odds aren't great.

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  • Moving up the development chain, Tata Consultancy and Infosys have designed and manufactured parts of Boeing and Airbus aircraft wings in India, and Tata does design and drafting work from China for Canadian aircraftmaker Bombardier.

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  • Moving up the development chain, Tata Consultancy and Infosys have designed and manufactured parts of Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) and Airbus aircraft wings in India, and Tata does design and drafting work from China for Canadian aircraftmaker Bombardier.

    FORBES: Offshoring The Offshorers

  • Police said parent firm Scottish and Southern Power was drafting in extra engineers from Scotland to try to recover the supply.

    BBC: Hundreds of homes without power

  • Parliamentary wrangles and sloppy drafting prevented the government from shoving the bill through before the prosecution had summed up in the cases that are nearly over.

    ECONOMIST: Italy, its prime minister and the law

  • He also said he didn't tell the McCourts about the switch, likely because he felt he had the implied consent from the McCourts to make a simple drafting change he felt squared with their original wishes.

    WSJ: Dodgers Owner Takes Aim at Law Firm

  • Pickle, chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, at that time was drafting a bill to raise from 65 to 68 the retirement age at which full benefits could be collected, in small steps beginning in 1990 and ending in the year 2000.

    CNN: A Debt-Threatened Dream

  • As junior finance minister from 1990 to 1993 he was instrumental in drafting the Maastricht Treaty.

    BBC: Koehler

  • Thus, drafting further evolved to prohibit a Protector from being the Trustee, or appointing somebody close to the Protector.

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  • Diplomats from 194 countries finally agreed to begin the process of drafting a new pact that governs all countries via the same set of rules.

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  • "On websites, blogs and social network forums, many groups have provided template letters and resources for parents to use in drafting such requests, " read a memo from New York State Association of School Attorneys released this week to guide districts through the issue.

    WSJ: Some NY parents to boycott new, harder state tests

  • After taking advice from an expert panel the Irish government has said it is drafting legislation to address the European ruling and expects to be in a position to publish that in the next few months.

    BBC: Draft NI abortion guidelines to be published

  • The company also did a poor job of drafting the legal filings, including failing to remove consumers' personal information from the public records, according to the lawsuit.

    NPR: Calif. Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Debt Collection

  • Mr Bercow hailed the legacy of Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, from whom Commons Leader Sir George Young is descended, for his painstaking work on drafting the 100-year-old act.

    BBC: Commons Speaker calls for sweeping new committee powers

  • Taylor's comments come on the day the club's creditors have been invited to Fratton Park to approve the drafting of a debt-repayment plan that will enable Portsmouth to emerge from administration, perhaps as early as next month.

    BBC: PFA boss Taylor says Pompey misled players over wages

  • Feinberg said that at his request, lawyers for BP will be involved in drafting releases that exempt BP--but not other potential defendants--from any future liability for the spill.

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  • Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has had a major hand in drafting state level anti-immigration laws, has been working to stop Bailey from influencing the national GOP.

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  • He said it was intended to safeguard the revolution, in part by preventing courts from interfering with the work of Egypt's Constituent Assembly, the body charged with drafting a new constitution.

    CNN: Q&A: What's behind the latest wave of violence in Egypt?

  • In particular, Morsy said, the edict was aimed at preventing interference from the courts in the work of Egypt's Constituent Assembly, the body charged with drafting a new constitution.

    CNN: Q & A: What's driving Egypt's unrest?

  • Most important of all, the government is drafting a law to make it harder for Albanians to keep some 1m guns looted from police stations and barracks during the anarchy, and from mid-September it will step up a campaign to seize them.

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