"I have only cracked 10% of this book, " he says, pointing to the "pain points" binder.

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In 2010, only the first novel cracked the top ten at number five.

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Home mortgages were the only other economic issue that cracked double digits in the poll.

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When the economy briefly recovered, he cracked down: only 200, 000 Cubans now have licences allowing them to run micro-businesses, such as restaurants or hairdressers, down from a peak of 350, 000.

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If the problem of rejection could be cracked, not only would transplant patients have a better prognosis, but it would also be easier to match patients to donors, and so more transplants could be carried out using the limited number of organs available.

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From that point on, advantaged 21 players found better and better methods of working the casinos in ways only dreamed of when Dr. Thorp first cracked open the cookie jar.

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Interestingly, while those Xbox modders were loading cracked games galore onto the boxes of customers, Divineo only sells tools that make piracy possible -- interesting indeed.

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At its recent introduction of the Rezound, the company crowed that it had been named the best-selling smartphone brand in the US in Q3 and that it was the leader in 4G smartphones. (The NPD Group, my employer, supports the second claim but not the first.) HTC also noted that it had cracked the Interbrand 100 list of best global brands after only five years of brand promotion.

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"Hopefully in two months we'll play in good weather here, " Gonzalez cracked after his two-run homer off Hiroki Kuroda provided the only offense in the Rockies' 2-0 win over the New York Yankees.

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