But down at the street level, global statistics break down, and the nuances of and exceptions to the data become just as important.

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Bogdanovic recovered from losing the first set to level the match and was a break down in the final set.

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But Sharapova regrouped in the second set and though Zheng battled back from a break down to draw level at 4-4, the Russian broke again to take the match into a decider, which she won comfortably.

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Tablet makers selling a complete range at that break-even level could ultimately whittle down the market to those who either produced a winning formula at the right time (Apple) or have deep enough content stores and bank accounts to willingly give up large parts of their potential hardware profit (Amazon and Google).

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However, if we break it down to a simpler level, it becomes more obvious (as I try to accomplish in my new book: How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes ).

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Justices attempted to break the argument down to an everyday level by discussing things like chocolate chip cookies, baseball bats and Amazonian jungle plants in attempts to understand the complicated issues.

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Combine these offline capabilities with device APIs that allow web apps to access hardware features like cameras, battery level, microphone, etc and Mozilla could effectively break down the barriers not only between HTML5 and native apps, but between high-end mobile devices and low.

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Social order in Greece will break down before GDP shrinks to 88.5% of its 2009 level.

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However if this were to break down, the path of oil price is more important to Russia than the level of the US dollar.

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Having taken the first set to a tie-break, Soderling fought back from 4-2 down in the second set to level at 4-4 but Nadal -- who lost to Andy Murray in the final last year -- showed no signs of the inconsistency that plagued the latter half of his 2009 campaign as he clinched victory.

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