In exchange they were allowed to share meals and pray together, have nearly round-the-clock recreation time as well as access to satellite TV, computer games and classes.
Historically, No. 10 and No. 12 seeds that pull first-round upsets also win in the second round nearly half the time.
In the match-play golf format, nearly every early round match is a tossup, with the higher-seeded golfer only winning at a 58% rate in the first two rounds.
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After two home runs last week, it took Harper nearly 20 seconds to round the bases.
Our nearly 10-mile round trip drive took us from Paramount Studios up to the Griffith Park Observatory and back.
The ministerial meeting of 1982 failed and the later Uruguay round of talks nearly collapsed, before being successfully concluded.
The third round Saturday was delayed nearly two hours when thunderstorms moved toward the north Florida coast.
In Uruguay , the left-wing opposition candidate, Tabare Vazquez, won nearly 40% in the first round of the presidential election.
We nearly went out in the first round, but to hang in there... it's the same in the league, it's one defeat in 21.
But the Bears' free throw struggles that nearly cost them in the second round against South Florida returned when Jemerigbe missed the front-end of a 1-and-1 with 27 seconds left.
The first round of Woolworths closures comes nearly 100 years after American F W Woolworth opened his first UK store in Liverpool.
Marine Le Pen, who as leader of the National Front attracted nearly a fifth of the first-round votes, has not endorsed either candidate.
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He reports that Iceland's preliminary round match against Denmark attracted nearly 60 percent of the country's 100, 000 televisions and a share of about 100.
The ECB allocated nearly a half-trillion euros through the first round two months ago.
Over that span, an average of nearly three QBs have been taken in the first round each year.
The far-right National Front also fared well in France , winning nearly 40% of the vote in the first round of a parliamentary by-election in the southern city of Toulon.
Mr Abdelaziz won nearly 53% of the votes cast in the first round of an election on July 18th, forgoing the need for a run-off.
Last year, he embraced many first-round picks who took the stage and was nearly hugged into submission by the likes of Fletcher Cox, Dontari Poe and Melvin Ingram.
Boston also nearly blew a 3-1 series edge in the opening round this year against Toronto, before rallying from a three-goal deficit in the third period and capturing Game 7 in overtime.
But 14 is still nearly three times as many thirty-somethings as reached the second round at the French Open a decade ago.
But after nearly two years of slump, Malaysia's economy is now turning round, along with others in the region, and the stockmarket is booming.
World No. 3 Lee Westwood shot a closing round of 70 to finish 40th a day after an injury scare nearly forced him out of the tournament.
This completely unnecessary monthly merry-go-round consists of some 2, 000 parliamentary staff and interpreters, nearly 1, 000 assistants, journalists and lobbyists, 785 MEPs and 15 lorry-loads of trunks and documents.
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In fact, since the SPX burst above the round 1, 300 level on the first trading day of February, nearly 80% of the daily closes since that time have been between 1, 300 and 1, 333, and these remain support and resistance levels in the near term.
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The American showcase nearly turned into a disaster for Fury, who was dropped 18 seconds into the second round with a right hook to the chin.
Africa's year-round tropical temperatures offer no winter to freeze off disease cycles, so each year nearly half the sweet potato crop fails.
After Buffalo surprised nearly everyone by picking Florida State's EJ Manuel as the only QB in the first round (at No. 16), the next to go was West Virginia's Geno Smith by the New York Jets in the second round, at No. 39, and North Carolina State's Mike Glennon by Tampa Bay in the third round, at No. 73.
Richard Taylor, a manager at the Aurora gun store and range Firing Line, said the 15-round restrictions on rifle magazines are "poorly worded" and are likely to affect owners of nearly every magazine.
After taking control of the game, and holding Boston to 49 points for the nearly the first 39 minutes of the game, New York looked poised to move forward to the next round.
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