• If you're saying that basically you're going to have a period of democracy American style or whatever, I don't think that's probable.

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  • Having said that, one finding from a small study I did a year ago was that all companies have a period in the innovation doldrums.

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  • You'd have a period of time where a movie like "2001" would run for months or epic movies like "Sound of Music" would run for two years.

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  • "It (the match against Burnley) was our third game in seven days and now we're going to have a period of five games in 14 days and that makes huge demands, " Martinez added.

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  • And now we have a period where, because of the choice to let the sequester take effect, we are not now in a countdown clock situation -- the cable nets don't have the clock.

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  • It's also bad for the country, long-term, because all the evidence suggests that individuals who have a period of unemployment at the start of their working life pay a heavy price for that bad luck.

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  • They would also like to see the introduction of a graduated driving licence scheme, where people who have only just passed their test would have a period of time before they could drive with passengers.

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  • After the duchess spent three days being treated for the condition in King Edward VII's Hospital in central London, she was ordered by doctors to have a period of rest at home at Kensington Palace.

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  • "For a peacetime era, these past four years have been a period of unprecedented military activity and unmatched operational excellence, " he added.

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  • Because the early universe is believed to have undergone a period of rapid inflation, features that were Planck-scale may have been magnified to the point where they are visible as blips in the cosmic microwave background, an electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang.

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  • And for some frontline battlefield forces that might have a greater percentage of those who think it might be harder to do, you can have a transition period.

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  • However, the United States did have a brief imperial period a hundred years ago when it acquired many islands in the Pacific and a few in the Caribbean.

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  • The last three years have been a period of fundamental transformation in how online retailers operate.

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  • To complicate things still further, the Democrats will have a brief period of control.

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  • The last seventeen months, sadly, have been a period of drift and confusion for the country.

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  • The students have a short period of time (something like two days) to accept or decline this offer.

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  • Southern stingrays have a gestation period of about six months and the eggs hatch within the mother's body.

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  • Since most clean-energy projects have a payback period of more than five years, the system thus fails to encourage green investment.

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  • It is proposing some conditions on the BBC's participation in the venture and will have a further period of consultation, lasting until February.

    BBC: Project Canvas given green light by BBC Trust

  • My trading rules dictate that I have a basing period from which I can determine risk reward, and BP has no such pattern.

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  • Because we have a holding period time limit, ultimately all recommendations get closed out and become part of this average, so it is properly inclusive.

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  • Any owner whose dog is found without a chip and can be traced by local authorities will have a short period of time to have the dog microchipped.

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  • Hence, we appear to have entered a period of particular danger, when an attack by China against Taiwan seems a distinct possibility, if not actually a probability.

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  • We have a short period of time.

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  • Many of the older students have lived through a period of violence and suffering and have not yet had the opportunity for even a basic education.

    WHITEHOUSE: Talking with America's Youth

  • And what is important about this is that we have not simply averted what would have been an absolute disaster, assuming, again, Congress acts, which would have been passing a period beyond which we would no longer have had borrowing authority and risking -- creating the possibility of default on our obligations for the first time in our history.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The researchers say that in this worst case scenario - if people with other gene variants are equally as susceptible as those in the original subgroup, but have a longer incubation period for vCJD - there could be a total of around 600 deaths from vCJD.

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  • The researchers aim to recruit 150 women under the age of 70 with type 2 diabetes who have not had a period for at least a year, and who have been taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs for at least 12 months.

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  • But as Jo Ann and Bob Shirilla of Poland, Ohio, discovered, sometimes working together can provide a surprisingly enjoyable way to earn an income, travel and have fun experiencing a period of semi-retirement before settling into full-on retirement.

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  • The legislative programme brings together a string of proposals that have already been through a period of consultation.

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