• Waltrip had an opportunity to win Talladega last October until leader Tony Stewart triggered a multi-car accident trying to hold off the field.

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  • While preliminary findings from such companies as Geron and Nexell hold promise, the field is still in its infancy.

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  • Maybe compare point spreads to seedings, or study those team-by-team defensive stats until you collapse from exhaustion before determining who hold opponents to the lowest field goal percentage in games decided by fewer than ten points.

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  • Players on the field must hold their stick and not use it in a dangerous way - for instance lifting it over the heads of others.

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  • By urging the industry to develop common standards for the application of streaming video and audio in wireless internet applications and television set-top boxes, Apple stands to at least hold its ground if the playing field is leveled.

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  • Lukoil won a contract to exploit the West Qurnah field, thought to hold 15 billion barrels oil, in the mid-1990s.

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  • Funding for development of the gas field is now on hold, he said, due to banks' concerns about the new tax regime.

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  • The Mankley Field Action Group is due to hold a meeting later to discuss the matter.

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  • Management could put the project on hold and let its field lie fallow.

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  • "As a medical doctor practicing in this field, I hold sacred the bond of confidentiality that exists between a patient and doctor, " he said.

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  • But this concept has been lower to take hold in brain imaging, and the associated emerging field of neuroinformatics.

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  • That technique uses a magnetic field to hold large volumes of the same isotopes of hydrogen inside a doughnut-shaped vessel, called a tokamak.

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  • One former American official said he does not believe the Afghan Army will be able to hold the country without a peace settlement that removes a significant number of Taliban fighters from the field.

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  • Debates rage over whether to scrap the old constitutions immediately or to reform them temporarily, whether to push for early elections or hold off until rules are set and the playing field levelled, and whether to opt for presidential or parliamentary political systems.

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  • And after posting the best defensive field goal percentage in the NBA this season, the Pacers finally managed to hold Atlanta under 50 percent shooting.

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  • It is beginning initial engineering and design work on the field, which is believed to hold up to 240 million barrels of oil.

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  • They need to hold it open for each other on and off the field to have a going concern value that generates future wins.

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  • Although a throng of young, ambitious Republicans currently hold statewide offices, the Democratic Party has tended to field politically inexperienced trial lawyers a breed not much loved in Texas, or indeed, anywhere (save possibly New York).

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  • Recent discoveries, such as the Tupi Field, which is expected to hold between 50 and 100 billion barrels of oil equivalent, prompted Brazil's government-owned Petrobras to boast that they would double Exxon Mobil in size by 2020.

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  • When you come off the field after a defeat and are able to hold you head up high you know you've done a good job, but our heads were down and we knew we hadn't done a good job.

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  • Not long ago it was hospitable to foreigners: As oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, an ally of powerful former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the late 1990s pushed through billions of dollars in agreements with Shell, France's Total, Italy's Eni, Schlumberger and Halliburton to develop large and technically challenging projects, such as Iran's huge South Pars field, which is believed to hold 7% of the world's natural gas supply.

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  • Not too long ago it was hospitable to foreigners: As oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, an ally of powerful former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the late 1990s pushed through billions of dollars in agreements with Shell, France's Total, Italy's Eni, Schlumberger and Halliburton to develop large and technically challenging projects, such as Iran's huge South Pars field, which is believed to hold 7% of the world's natural gas supply.

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  • But Jayasuriya, who popped his shoulder in the field and batted down at number six, had to hold the tail together after Sri Lanka slipped to 112-5.

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  • The cages would be behemoths: 82, 500 cubic meters--half the size of a football field across--big enough to hold 1, 000 tons of 100-pound ahi.

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  • Reno, NV: Reno is a bit like New Orleans, getting lots of vacationers, and though it has some regulars, the limits are lower and the strength of field lower so that a decent recreational player can hold his or her own.

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  • Meantime, the Monterrey Formation in Southern California is said to hold 15.4 billion barrels of crude, or four times that of the Bakken field.

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  • Bodemeister, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by jockey Mike Smith, led the field with an early, blazing pace that looked like it would hold through the wire.

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  • Making Wright captain would allow the Mets to hold a news conference, jam dozens of television cameras into Citi Field for a formal announcement, and generate some goodwill before what could deteriorate into another losing season.

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  • Eventually, thanks to a degree she has in biology and previous work in the field, she landed work as a biologist, allowing her to hold on to her 572-square-foot log cabin on three acres, where she takes in stray dogs and raises horses that double as sculpting models.

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  • The fate of that deal is now on hold, and Russia has since excluded Shell from the international consortium developing the giant Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea.

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