The touchstone of that business model remains the monthly subscriber fee, one typically levied on every cable household in a vast metro area irrespective of interest in sports programming.

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Instead, the EU will begin to evolve into what it should have been in the first place: a vast free-trade area in which political control is exercised by individual members, with EU bureaucrats in Brussels concerned only with reducing internal trade barriers.

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This is the third time the race has taken place in the Complexo do Alemao, a vast area of interconnected slums once ruled by some of the most powerful drug gangs in Brazil.

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On one of my first visits to a mountaintop site in West Virginia, I stood on the edge of a vast area under excavation.

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The Wadi is not a single valley (as the Arabic word suggests) but rather a vast area of protected desert in which the Bedouin have established numerous government-approved camps.

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The former intelligence chief said the Libyan army had little capability in this vast area of desert and there was a fear of confronting the extremists.

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Last week, a clutch of European countries launched plans to develop a vast network of offshore wind-farms over an area of about 293, 438 square miles in the North Sea.

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