Or to put it another way, more than double the Wii U's installed base since launching mid-holiday 2012.

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However fleet her reflexes, broadening the primary base and launching a "movement" take organization and money, two things she has proved slow to build.

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Would a new force going in be able to either fire back or to dispel Hezbollah fighters who might be launching rockets from near their base?

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Pakistan also kicked the Central Intelligence Agency out of a base that the spy agency had long used as a launching pad for drone strikes against militant targets in Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

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Launching too many products that go in different directions could confound the user base.

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Russia says it also remains committed to sending cosmonauts beyond Earth's orbit in the future, including to a permanent base on the moon that it says could be used as a future launching pad for flights to Mars.

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However, since launching overseas in October 2011, fanatix has received more than 250, 000 downloads and has a daily active user base of over 35, 000.

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