However, Sprint's Mr. Gaffney said customers who identify themselves as NFL fans, which make up an estimated two-thirds of Sprint's base, are among its most loyal and highly valued wireless users.

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If the halo slips, Apple may have to content itself with selling its wares just to the select, fashion-conscious bunch who presently make up the company's loyal fan base.

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It would make Thailand the world's ninth-largest auto-manufacturing base, up from its current rank of 15th.

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Whether the games they come up with will be good, whether the good games will be discoverable in the Ouya store, and whether a strong enough user-base will make the Ouya financially viable is all still very much up in the air.

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You know, with a race this close, I think both sides see it's so important to reach out to every possible voter and to make sure that they've got both - both sides have got their base drummed up and excited about this race.

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Nowhere is the Chinese propensity to base business on relationships more obvious than in the family-run firms that make up the bulk of the private sector.

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After a month of losses to Obama, Clinton had been expected to do well in Ohio -- where the blue-collar workers who have consistently supported her throughout the campaign make up a large chunk of the Democratic base.

CNN: Clinton scores 3 wins; Obama cites delegate lead

The genome project, which the government began in 1987, aimed to speed the gene-hunting effort by providing the first full map of all 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA. (It was not necessary, in this effort, to run through all the pairs on each set of chromosomes, or 6 billion pairs.) And because the base pairs come in only four varieties, they are digital and ideal for computer decoding.

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