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  • Davies should have headed them in front from Jacob Butterfield's inviting free-kick but was unable to get control of his effort and headed wastefully over from six yards.

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  • The Shah of Iran from 1941, he lost control of his country and fled in 1979, when revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini succeeded him.

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  • Unfortunately, events beyond his control have prevented him from joining us.

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  • He is, though, likely to hear from his hosts about the market's control over the price of the dollar, to which oil producers in the region peg their currencies, and whose 30% trade-weighted decline in the past five years is putting inflationary pressure on domestic economies.

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  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who gets high marks from the NRA for his opposition to past gun control efforts, has indicated support for expanding background checks but refuses to endorse a new weapons ban.

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  • She said Fritzl had an overwhelming need to dominate and control, which she said stemmed from his childhood.

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  • The elder Graham had inherited control of the Post Co. from his father-in-law, Eugene Meyer, who had acquired it out of bankruptcy in 1933.

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  • The speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Mark Ferrandino, a Democrat, says though he too was surprised to receive a call about his state's gun control battle from Biden last week, he understands the stakes.

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  • The deal made a big splash in Hollywood, especially after Mr. Emanuel and his partners wrested control of the new company from its chairman, Jim Wiatt, just weeks after the merger was done.

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  • But he never attacked the Murdoch empire or any other newspaper group by name and although he believed the media was out of control, he always resisted calls from within his own inner circle to take them on.

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  • Latching on to a pass from Marouane Chamakh, who appeared to control the ball with his arm in the build-up, Bendtner raced clear and fired off target, only for his shot to get a helpful diversion off the sliding Clarke and into the far corner.

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  • The Supreme Court has banned Musharraf from leaving the country and his name has been placed on an exit control list.

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  • Boyd squandered a chance when found by a Kenny Miller cross into the six-yard box, the Scotland striker failing to control the ball as he attempted to turn away from his marker.

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  • He much approves of the 18th-century English aristocrat who moved out of his crumbling pile in order to admire, from his new house on the hill, how quickly wild nature took control of the elegant rooms he had lived in.

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  • This follows from his related idea that Enterprise 2.0 creates a shift in the control of organizational and management hierarchies.

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