Minnesota barely made solid contact until first baseman Justin Morneau connected with a two-out home run that banged high off the right-field foul pole.

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Brennan Boesch led off with a single and scored on Nix's sacrifice fly, and Gardner hit a drive high off the right-field foul pole.

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With all three vehicles, Arianespace, the company that runs Kourou, will now be able to offer satellite operators a ride for any type of spacecraft to all kinds of orbit - from the low, pole-crossing orbits used by Earth observation missions, to the high, geostationary locations favoured by big telecommunications platforms.

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When he set a personal best in the pole vault, he started giving high-fives to fans in the stands.

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Those jobs disappeared in the last 30 years when young wannabe coaches eschewed the high-school route for the low spot on the college totem pole.

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And Globalfoundries and its customers have the pole position in high mobility, offering an ultra-low power mobile SoC with a whole ecosystem around it rather than just a processor.

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However, once I was in college, I was surprised to hear how people reacted to being rejected by a college and that their choices for safety or last-resort schools were ones I considered fairly high up on the totem pole.

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Some of the other firefighting equipment founded in Chicago is less high-tech: the snorkel truck, the fire plug or hydrant, the collapsible fire escape and the fire pole, which was invented by a Chicago fire captain in 1874 so firefighters could slide quickly to the ground floor.

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