For London, my target was gold, but I could manage a silver.

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Today's electronic forms of communication may lack that emotional depth but they do enable us to connect more speedily and efficiently than I at least could manage with pen and ink.

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"I had a feeling that if we could manage to keep pressure on their defence we could get the equaliser and could turn it around - because they might start to panic, " said the Dutchman.

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All I could do was tell her some of the climbing techniques I'd relied on to help manage the fear and the loneliness, and listen to her anger and bewilderment as she climbed it now herself.

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When I was a kid, even the most productive bullies could only manage a handful of victims at a time.

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Russia probably could manage just fine on half its current population, although I doubt very much it will come to that.

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"We can sell the mill, find a new tenant or we could put in a manager and manage it ourselves, but I hope that it won't come to this, " he added.

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It worked fine, and would still be working today if not for World War I, and soon after, the rise of Keynesian notions that governments could manage their economies by jiggering the currency.

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