Players' handicaps are based on a scale of minus-2 to 10, with 10 the best.
Despite these real and appallingly unnecessary handicaps, the SDI program has come a long way.
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The conditions races carry more prestige while handicaps are more important in terms of betting.
Given these handicaps, it is not surprising that the record of the committees has been patchy.
It saddled the south-west with the competitive handicaps that today leave those two provinces among the poorest in China.
Suffice to say, gamers counting their APM (actions per minute) shouldn't have any hardware handicaps to contend with here.
But apart from its own divisions, the opposition candidates face two main handicaps.
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So while the women become self- actualized, the men can cut their handicaps in half, and everybody--Steve Case included--is happy.
And finally, there is the courage of the 5, 000 surviving children who have struggled with tremendous physical and emotional handicaps.
He argues that, given its natural and historical handicaps, the country cannot develop at the speed that outsiders expect of it.
This 59-year-old Muslim cleric suffers from some major physical handicaps: he is almost blind, and has had a couple of strokes.
In spite of all this, RIM's new baby is unlikely to become a bestseller because it suffers from at least two handicaps.
Alcohol handicaps the prefrontal cortex, our reasoning command and control center that would normally constrain someone from lashing out against another person.
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He cites Brazil's high labour taxes and interest rates as self-inflicted handicaps.
The first step might be to better coordinate course ratings, so that handicaps established on courses of differing difficulty can be made comparable.
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Despite the escalating demand in South Africa, the industry suffers from several of the handicaps that plague so many of the country's businesses.
To conduct its beauty contest, the Bernstein team took a look at 11 companies and handicaps their odds on a variety of different metrics.
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Even facing such handicaps and quotas, immigrant success in business and investment helped pull Malaysia to extraordinary growth rates during the 1980s until recently.
But there are handicaps, including language: Chinese is widely spoken in many other Asian destinations, including Malaysia and Singapore, but not in South Korea.
Despite these handicaps, within three years expenditure growth had been contained, tax rates had been cut significantly and revenue increased by nearly a third.
The researchers checked the golfers' performance again four months later and the video group, who were still practising the technique, found their handicaps had shrunk.
As well as deterring tourists, this handicaps Highlands manufacturers, which are 200 or more miles farther away from their customers than firms in central Scotland.
The downside of the British system, of course, is that handicaps are based on fewer reported scores and thus are slower to reflect a player's changing ability.
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With 90 percent of our employer firms having fewer than 20 employees, government, through taxes, tax complexity and regulations, handicaps existing employers and discourages new ones from starting.
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Guest-workers are bequeathing some of their handicaps to later generations.
Reasonably enough, these focus on infrastructure: one of the south's obvious handicaps is that getting products to ports and airports, let alone to the United States, is slow and expensive.
Featuring Argentine polo teams with some of the best handicaps in the world, the tournament ends with a match on 13 October where the winning team receives the prestigious Emilio Anchorena Cup.
Balancing out the anonymity and lack of physical contact is the ability to mask a plethora of medical and psychological conditions that until now have proven serious handicaps to social interaction.
Despite these handicaps, success on fast-track is still possible.
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