The medicine helped, if only for a while.

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Seeing a moneymaking opportunity, a Lower East Side experience-based events and marketing firm, the Participation Agency, believes it has found a way to give New Yorkers a dose of private outdoor space, if only for a short while.

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Less litigation sounds good to us, even if it's only for a little while.

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If Saddam will only conduct himself better for a while, the sanctions will be lifted and he can go back to business as usual later.

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Here's a question we've been asking ourselves for a while: what if the dock for a hybrid tablet could offer not only a keyboard and battery, but also increased performance?

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How can you regret spending less than a night out in Vegas, if only for the chance to play Pocket Kingdom or the Sims while you're waiting in line to use the bathroom at the too-crowded clubs you find yourself in all too often?

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Organizers face the prospect of it being reduced to "unofficial" status if only two rounds are possible -- while a cut to 18 holes would mean none of the purse counts for the 2013 money list.

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