• Thus, the U.S. has sought to organize its nuclear forces so that no enemy can launch a disarming first strike, mainly by fielding three distinctly different types of weapons: manned bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in hardened silos, and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles on stealthy Trident submarines.

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  • "In many, many different ways the facility has become a little too small, mainly compared to the other three grand slams, " he said.

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  • Delivery times have gone from an average of three hours -- and from highs of several days -- to an average of three minutes, mainly because the new system, unlike the old one, was set up so that messages only travel as far as they need to in order to reach their recipients.

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  • Saldana , an emergency physician in Dallas who has used ePocrates since it started up three years ago, mainly to check for drug interactions.

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  • In the third generation, more than three-quarters were mainly English-speaking.

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  • Apprentices spend the first year mainly in the college and next three years they work and train at the Ellesmere Port plant, spending a day a week in college.

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  • Several hundred people, mainly Christians, were killed in three villages near the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau state, which lies between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.

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  • White House Spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters that President Bush has made some three dozen calls--mainly to House Republicans--to ensure passage Friday.

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  • Adidas, the world's second largest sportswear maker, has reported a loss for the last three months of 2012, mainly owing to impairment charges relating to its Reebok brand.

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  • An initial three-month pilot phase will see up to 50 kiosks installed mainly in market town-based sub post offices, with a further 50 added every three months.

    BBC: Post Office sign

  • However, statisticians said this appeared to be due mainly to an unusually high estimate for the three months to August 2012.

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  • It will involve spending 370 billion rand over the next three years on public works, mainly infrastructure, to boost jobs and create more demand that will also be spread more evenly.

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  • They were mainly younger workers and those on the job for three years or less, a spokeswoman says.

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  • Samsung Electronics has forecast a 53% jump in profit for the first three months of the year, boosted mainly by growing smartphone sales.

    BBC: Samsung Electronics forecasts jump in quarterly profit

  • Then when Cole moved to Chelsea in 2003 he found himself mainly deployed on the wing or out wide in a three-man front line.

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  • Barnes spent the last three seasons with the San Diego Chargers, mainly as a pass-rushing specialist, something the Jets were looking for in free agency.

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  • Today, after three stunning deals, it has transformed itself mainly into a communication-systems company, focused on the opportunities created by the explosion in data traffic.

    ECONOMIST: Lord of the switch?

  • The same rule applies to Just Mobile's three upcoming products, all of which consist of mainly aluminum.

    ENGADGET: Just Mobile talks about working with Apple and why it manufactures in Taiwan exclusively

  • And that's true, they are providing three meals a day and they seem to be sleeping mainly in the mosque.

    BBC: Jenin's trapped people

  • In the family-owned factory of Kazuya Sakamoto, which for decades has supplied parts to Sanyo, three-fifths of the 300 workers are foreigners, mainly Japanese-Brazilians.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese immigration

  • However, the Heat brought the game to within three by the half and never looked back -- thanks mainly to the influential LeBron James.

    CNN: Miami Heat close in on NBA title with third-straight win

  • Over the last three weeks we have worked hard during our intensified negotiations, mainly on the chapter of governance and power-sharing, and achieved important progress.

    UN: Secretary-General

  • In America three-quarters of onshore hedge funds have offshore clones, mainly because hedge funds with foreign investors, who are not required to pay taxes on their hedge-fund investments in America, would still need to file America's unwieldy tax returns if they invested onshore.

    ECONOMIST: Moving pieces

  • On bicycles and three-wheeled cyclos, in cars and buses, and, mainly, on motorbikes.

    CNN: Stops and Starts

  • Into the good pot will go about three-quarters of the bank's existing activities, consisting mainly of its British and American banking operations, its insurance division and the less-dangerous bits of its investment bank, which is to be halved in size.

    ECONOMIST: Dismantling Royal Bank of Scotland

  • While a strong international clientele helps keep most three-stars afloat, one- and two-star establishments play mainly to the home audience.

    ECONOMIST: The Michelin Guide

  • Everywhere else gets a three or four, but when you look at the detail that is mainly because of slow sync speeds.

    BBC: NI internet users making the broadband switch-over

  • As the Big Three member with the highest consumer scores before employee pricing--thanks mainly to its popular 300 sedan series--the company was able to limit its sales slump.

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  • Sarah and three colleagues have been preparing for the challenge for the past two years, mainly by running along the beach at Weston-super-Mare.

    BBC: Bristol - Woman back from Sahara desert race

  • An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.

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