• No one would really blame those in the glass-is-half-full camp if they decided to take a wait-and-see approach to this market.

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  • And why did they publish a two-and-a-half-year-old story as if it happened two days ago?

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  • He will serve a default prison sentence of two-and-a-half years if he fails to pay the amount back.

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  • Stoke end their debut Premier League campaign at Arsenal on Sunday (kick-off 1600 GMT) and could secure a top-half finish if they beat the Gunners.

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  • There is an injury doubt over Stephen Jones, who is having further scans on a thumb injury, with Dan Biggar the back-up fly-half if required.

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  • There's the young city worker, with his tie always at half-mast as if to emphasise how "dreadfully busy" he is, even though he's been standing on the platform for at least 15 minutes.

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  • However, this strategy could backfire since RIM will be playing catch-up with competition if it introduces half-baked products into the market.

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  • Since volume in the service department is low on Wednesdays, it'll offer a half-price oil change if you bring the car in then.

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  • Two-fifths of Asian exports, and rising, are intra-regional even if half that share forms part of a global supply-chain anchored in the West.

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  • In 2002, Mrs Adams says she expects Colorado's economy to retract slightly during the first six months but begin growing slowly in the second half of the year - if the larger US economy begins recovery.

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  • At the same time, the mayor has often infuriated the Republican Party, which fumed as he pilloried George Pataki, a Republican, when he stood against Mr Cuomo (after Mr Pataki won, Mr Giuliani had a hard time repairing the relationship), and breathed a sigh of relief when the mayor finally (if half-heartedly) endorsed Mr Dole's candidacy.

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  • From international stocks to sector plays and investments with attractive yields, this round-up of investment guru advice can help you develop successful strategies for the second half of 2009--even if all of these gurus are not in complete agreement.

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  • That being the case if over half - 60% - survive with mild or no damage then it has to be worth trying to save them all.

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  • With Flood injured, Toulon's Jonny Wilkinson is expected to take the fly-half role with Tindall if fit, Brive's Jamie Noon, Dan Hipkiss of Leicester and Sale's Mathew Tait the other midfield candidates.

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  • The coaches whose teams have the best winning percentage through Sunday's games earn the All-Star nods, and the Knicks would be a half-game ahead of Miami if the Heat lose in Toronto on Sunday afternoon.

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  • Nokia would probably suggest that a simple lack of time is the reason behind the half-hearted attempt, but if you're still not a believer that the N800 plays nice with those ho hum, commercial-filled broadcasts you love to hate, click on through for a live demonstration.

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  • "We are not discounting additional support at scrum-half in the future if it is required but, should this be the case, it would almost certainly be in a role to assist with the development of both Mike Phillips and Rhys Webb as well as providing playing support, primarily in the Magners League, " Hore added.

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  • What, though, if the slippery half-fiction now turned out to have become horribly true?

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  • Instead of half-hour interviews scheduled hours, if not days, apart, you have back-to-back auditions that last a few minutes.

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  • On a good day, you'd come home with a buck and a half -- two bucks or more if the World Series was on or Lindbergh was flying.

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  • "I was struggling in the first half with a sore Achilles and I wasn't sure if I would make it to half-time to see the doctor and get a pain-killing injection, " Henson explained.

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  • Wigan scrum-half Leuluai insists he is happy to play out of position if it helps New Zealand pull off a shock, even if the 23-year-old has been a half-back virtually his whole career.

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  • Ashley-Cooper could come in at inside centre if Matt Giteau moves to scrum-half.

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  • He is a wage-earner, albeit a very highly paid one, and he's going to pay over one-half of his income in taxes if he stays in California.

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  • He introduces the half-dozen main types of clouds as if they were his oldest friends: there is the towering, thunderous cumulonimbus, the beautiful cirrus, the fluffy, fine-weather cumulus.

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  • It is as if a mob of half-brothers who had never been introduced all chose to congregate at the same table in the same bar and brandish their mobile telephones simultaneously.

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  • It ensured the Blues entered half-time on level terms, but if they had hoped to use the break to collect themselves, it failed, with Everton picking up where they left off after the interval when Lars Jacobsen set Tim Cahill up to force another Cech save with a diving header.

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  • There's no doubt that, given the economic slowdown that we're experiencing, it's hard if you are -- if you're selling a little more than half of what you did two years, that you're not going to run into problems with your business model.

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  • But it's hard to create a norm of "physically together" if the office is always half-empty.

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  • And the same holds true if you merely want a half-way efficient and reliable economic system.

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