US-based researchers were the first to propose that the wrinkles might act like the tread on tyres, and even demonstrated how the patterns in the skin resembled those of run-off channels seen on the sides of hills.
Dr Abdullah had demanded key officials be removed from the IEC, which is widely regarded as pro-Karzai, ahead of any run-off vote.
As the two remaining candidates begin an intense two-week campaign, ahead of the run-off, there are two big challenges.
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For the left to win, one or other left-wing candidate would have to stand down ahead of the run-off.
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At its Gogarburn headquarters, the lender has announced that it's just passed the half-way point of its sale and run-off of those assets it doesn't want or need.
However, Wiranto, another singing ex-general, was still in with a chance of edging Miss Megawati out of the run-off vote, with 22%.
The prospect of a run-off against Mr Toledo seems to have rattled Mr Fujimori.
In the capital, Kinshasa, where three days of fighting greeted the announcement, in August, of a run-off election, people are visibly on edge.
Late on Tuesday, the election commission announced that the spoiled ballots would count in the overall vote total, increasing the likelihood of a run-off between the top two candidates, news agencies report.
The governing coalition may still have time to get its act together, and could even win some of the run-off elections for mayor that take place on June 18th across the country.
"The last spot was kind of a run-off between me and Graham Hedman, who has run quicker in the year but on head-to-head battles I've beaten him more than he's beaten me, " Buck said.
In any event, Finland's present foreign minister, Tarja Halonen, a Social Democrat who seems likeliest to face Mr Aho in the event of a run-off, is sceptical about joining the Atlantic alliance, and the idea has, for the moment, faded.
Michel Martelly, who first made his name on the Haitian music scene, was inaugurated as president in May 2011 after coming out of nowhere to win 68% of votes in the run-off of a hotly-contested presidential election in March.
The Woodland Trust said the planting also had the unexpected benefit of reducing water run-off from grassland in heavy rain, and led to research and important new evidence of the role trees can play in flood control.
The rally took place two days ahead of a presidential run-off between incumbent Danilo Turk and former Prime Minister Borut Pahor.
Not only is Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front likely to get the 12.5% of votes needed to make it into the run-off in nearly a fifth of the 577 constituencies, but a leadership battle has broken out within the UMP.
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Charlie Furbush (0-2) entered with one out and walked Gardner before Robinson Cano tied it with a two-run double off the base of the wall in right-center.
After Toronto took a 2-1 lead against Phil Hughes on Lind's RBI single in the fourth and Izturis' run-scoring double off the base of the right-field wall in the sixth, the Yankees overcame a deficit for the fourth straight day when Lyle Overbay hit two-run homer in the seventh that was caught on the fly by Yankees reliever David Robertson in the right-field bullpen.
Paul Wicks, a co-author of the paper, said social network-run studies may be most useful for testing efficacy of so-called off-label or off-patent compounds that patients are using but are unlikely to ever attract pharmaceutical company interest.
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If no candidate gets more than 50% of the votes, a run-off will be held next month.
It acted to limit the tightening that would automatically have taken place with the run-off of mortgage backed securities.
The direct impacts are the run-off of melting waters into the sea.
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Following a huge run-off of these assets, without any need to claim on the policy, the bank now reckons it's no longer necessary.
The sale and run-off of non-core assets, first set out in early 2009 at the start of the RBS's three-to-five-year recovery plan, meant a fifth of the balance sheet was to be non-core, and the balance sheet was to be halved in size.
Without some form of encryption to prevent pirating, copies of e-books can be run off by the thousand.
Candidates must get 50 percent of the vote to avoid a run-off.
In more than a dozen of the 27 states, a run-off on October 25th is in store, since no candidate won over 50%.
As we went to press, the supreme court was due to rule on whether to exclude Mr Shafiq from the run-off because of his role in the old regime.
Many people now see it as a distinct possibility that several bond insurers will lose their triple-A ratings and go into run-off because of their massive exposures to troubled credit derivatives.
Many farmers using these seeds have even been able to implement a "no-till" system, which offers tremendous environmental benefits by preventing soil erosion, keeping farm water and chemical run-off out of local watersheds and releasing less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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