• Or to put it another way, the Department made unrealistic assumptions about the growth of passenger numbers and inflation towards the back end of the franchise period - which had the effect of making First Group's bid seem significantly more attractive, because First Group was massively more optimistic about how passengers and revenues could grow after 2021 than was Virgin.

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  • By the latter part of March, the uptrend had resumed and the number of stocks making new highs had also started to increase.

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  • The irony is that King, an unemployed construction worker at the time of the beating, had become prominent of late by making the talk-show circuit with the release of his memoir The Riot Within.

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  • Dying of thyroid cancer that had spread to her breast and liver, Sheri spent the last year or so of her life making Idahoans aware of how much fallout the state had received and making Idaho politicians push for compensation for those of their citizens whose lives had been lost, shortened, or made a living hell by federal policy.

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  • His star declined in the 1950s, but in his heyday, he had some of the myth-making power of his more durable contemporaries such as Stewart, Bogart and Tracy.

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  • Ministers had no intention of making the wearing of reflective clothing or helmets a legal requirement for cyclists, Earl Attlee said.

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  • This had the effect of making First Group's bid seem significantly more attractive, he added, because the company was much more optimistic about how passengers and revenues could grow after 2021.

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  • None of that would have happened if the chip companies had settled for making the next generation of transistors just a little better than the last one.

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  • By May the chart shows that the decline had clearly resumed and the number of stocks making new lows had begun to expand.

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  • Aled Davies for the Conservative group said he was unhappy to defer the decision but the leader of the Powys Independent Alliance group, Tony Thomas, had earlier warned of making decisions about the budget "on the hoof".

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  • More reviews will roll out over the next two days but as of Thursday afternoon the film had a 97% fresh rating making it one of the top five best reviewed films of the year along with Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon.

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  • This has had the effect of making them less sensitive than earlier devices that did use external antennas.

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  • An extra month of campaigning would at least have had the merit of making politicians pay some attention to citizens.

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  • The bill passed by 168 votes to 123, and had the support of the three parties making up the ruling coalition.

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  • New Zealand added just 38 to their overnight 369-6, but Brendon McCullum had the consolation of making his fifth Test century before falling for 104.

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  • For those who couldn't attend the games he had the rare ability of making you feel that you were actually at the game with his vivid description of all around him.

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  • Unnamed officials speaking to the New York Times questioned whether Bureau of Diplomatic Security officials had the authority to offer such deals - making the legal validity of the offers unclear.

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  • In our coverage of the wider world this week, Glenn Llopis told of how Google had found a new way of making the most of entrepreneurial spirit.

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  • Newcastle had been chosen because the city had "a long track record of making the city more intelligent using transport systems in order to keep the traffic flow moving", she said.

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  • For example, just a few months ago the FTC successfully settled an action against Skechers USA, which it had accused of making false claims about the body toning effects of its shoes.

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  • Helen Mountfield QC, for the residents, argued Brent Council had adopted "a fundamentally flawed and unlawful approach to the making of savings in its budget" and the local authority had failed to comply with equality legislation and consult the local community properly.

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  • This has had the unintended consequence of making people even more afraid of what they are eating, moving safe foods into the scary category and limiting food exports, causing even further economic and social damage.

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  • Two explosions on board the submarine had been monitored, making it clear that the bow of the Kursk had been ripped open, and the vessel had sunk to the bottom like a stone.

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  • But, in every case, there was a senior partner who took responsibility for authorizing, nurturing, and protecting both the dream and the team, so that the innovation effort had an honest chance of making the breakthrough they were convinced was possible.

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  • The water reflected the gray-blue of the darkening sky, and the lights of the water-pumping stations had come on, making them look like a line of floating gazebos.

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  • The team was energetic, friendly and had a great time making the days of some unsuspecting commuters.

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  • The University of Rochester lost a case in which it said it was owed a percentage of sales of Pfizer's Celebrex because its researchers had first patent the idea of making painkillers by targeting the enzyme COX-2, the one hit by Celebrex.

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  • Despite other celebrities falling victim to cybersquatters -- people who register the domain names of famous people in the hope of making a quick profit -- the Beatles had no trouble registering the name of their choice, the spokeswoman said.

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  • The Irish Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals said the owner had been making efforts to feed them but it had spiralled out of control.

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  • In fact, calling this movie a Hollywood conspiracy is inaccurate, considering the fact that Hollywood had absolutely nothing to do with the making of this movie .

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