So Boeing is left as the only bidder for a defence contract second only to the enormous Joint Strike Fighter contract won by Lockheed Martin in 2001.
Yet he is for the moment only a junior minister: second in line for a policy's success, first up if it fails.
"I couldn't have noticed the car any earlier - it appeared all of a sudden and I only saw it for a split second, " he said.
Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo (nyse: SNY - news - people ) was sent back to the drawing board and returned with a trial that took a more conservative approach, asking for approval only as a second-line medicine.
It was a shocking start for a team seeking only a second win in nine league games, but halfway through the first period their persistence paid off as they grabbed the equaliser.
The results, announced on Saturday June 18th, the day after voting, showed the pollsters were right only about the need for a second round.
Antic's team wanted a penalty for a handball against Cahill but they only had themselves to blame for failing to score a second when Pantelic missed.
With such demands for power, some of it only for a fraction of a second, warship designers are keen to have a single system doing all manner of things.
With the second new ball only a few overs old, Ishant Sharma bowled a hostile morning spell for the second day in succession - and was soon beseeching umpire Asad Rauf for an lbw decision against Watson which was rightly turned down for height.
Each image was shown for only a fraction of a second.
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The only worry for Chelsea came with a second-half injury to Frank Lampard, while Preston boss Ferguson can now concentrate on his main business of moving Preston up the Championship table.
Instead, the device performed within the 200-400Mbps range, only jumping beyond that upper limit for a second or two during our demo.
For Massa, only a win or second place will do in Sao Paulo, so a sixth pole of a season is a must for the hometown boy.
Deron Williams scored 20 points for the Nets, who lost to a sub-.500 team for only the second time this season.
As it is for Honda, the U.S. is a key market for Nissan and second only to China globally.
Gliadel extends the median survival by six weeks, and then only for patients hardy enough to have withstood a second surgery.
Before last weekend's results, it appeared that the Rose Bowl would be held without a Pacific representative for only the second time.
The Pacers revved up the crowd with an opening 11-0 run, got the Heat in foul trouble and answered every challenge Miami posed in a physical game that had bodies flying, tempers flaring and LeBron James stunned after fouling out of a playoff game for only the second time in his career.
Such a rise, in turn, would raise domestic gold costs for Chinese households, now second only to Indian consumers as a global force in the gold market.
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Toronto set a new mark for shot futility with only two in the second period as the Devils played their usual tight-checking style against a Maple Leafs lineup that wasn't able to match New Jersey's desperation.
Gattuso and 59-year-old Scot Jordan had already clashed on the touchline during a bad-tempered second half in which Mathieu Flamini escaped with a only booking for a two-footed challenge on Vedran Corluka.
The data-transmission rate will also double (each channel now carries only 64 kilobits a second, which accounts for the jerky pictures that the system produces).
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It was a stirring display from Leeds as they continued their unbeaten run to eight games and inflicted only a second league loss at home for Burnley so far this season.
With no time to go for a winner despite their thrilling fightback, Perpignan had a penalty to move within seven points and claim a second bonus point - only for Porical's long-range effort to fall just short.
Even worse, when OPERA ran their experiment for a second time, they only changed one variable, and did not try to address other important criticisms of the initial methodology from both outside and inside the OPERA Collaborative.
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It was at Italian side Lazio where he achieved arguably his greatest success, winning every major trophy in Italy - including the Serie A title in 2000 for only the second time in the Roman club's history - and the European Cup Winners Cup.
The early loss of Charlotte Edwards for 12 was the only setback for the hosts, with Laura Newton scoring a majestic 77 not out, her second successive half-century.
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