Last year, Audi broke new ground with the first diesel-powered winner, driven by Frank Biela, Marco Werner and Emanuele Pirro, and McNish says he rates their chances of more success.

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One sign that consumer-driven health plans are slowly gaining ground is that big insurance firms, which are normally sluggish when it comes to innovation, are beginning to copy their smaller rivals.

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Brann got a deserved consolation goal on the hour when Moen's driven free-kick bobbled along the ground and embarrassingly beat the diving Howard, who had attempted a one-handed save.

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Geometric shapes are familiar ground for Costa, but the more refined tailoring and menswear-driven fabrics are a shift for the designer who recently has experimented more with raw edges and looser shapes.

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Overall, if driven responsibly, a vehicle with all-wheel drive, decent ground clearance and a relatively low center of mass is best, confirms Champion.

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And with American Airlines, its major tenant, the airport equipped gates with laser-driven systems called Safedock that let pilots drive airplanes up to gates without workers on the ground directing them.

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It also helps, greatly in fact, to have non-sales elements to the Facebook page or wherever you have driven your stake in the social media ground.

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The Mountain View, California has also driven more than 5 million unique miles as part of its five-year quest (called project Ground Truth) to build more accurate maps from its own raw data rather than licensing map content from others, said Brian McClendon, head of Google maps.

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