We can hope that some of them can make finals and preferably finish in the top eight, and therefore contribute to the placement table which I feel is a more accurate measure of a country's prowess than medals alone.

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What Dell needs is software to make them smarter, preferably developed at someone else's expense.

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And preferably, make sure you got something that you can charge it with a battery -- little battery chargers -- just in case you don't have power.

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The Friend way would take all the data collected each year from the thousands of cancer patients entered in trials, make it anonymous and put it into one database, preferably held by the U.S. government but definitely accessible to any physician or scientist.

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There is not much to do about this except to make more capital available, through a much higher savings rate preferably in excess of 10%.

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Francene, as she's popularly known in Louisville, says she pre-screens employers to make sure they have jobs to offer with a decent wage, preferably with benefits.

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These are the tools he will use to help make sure the Paisley club safeguard their Scottish Premier League status, and preferably do so more comfortably than in recent seasons.

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To make it appear that Santa really wrapped their presents, use different wrapping paper (preferably one with images of Santa on them) and use different tags (preferably written in a disguised penmanship).

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The bureaucrats demanded that BP make public all video, documents, reports and plans pertaining to the Deepwater Horizon spill, preferably housing it all in a dedicated website.

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