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  • The same order of top three finishers in the straw poll were the same order as the top three finishers in the national poll, and so to those skeptics who were concerned about the accuracy of the straw poll, the national poll provided empirical evidence that it was a pretty good representative sample of what's going on.

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  • Mr. PILLER: It's probably on the order of two or three billion dollars a year in terms of royalties, salaries, things like that.

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  • In 2010, Baba Rampuri was made one of the three abbots of the order's international chapter and today he is one of the very few Hindu monks raising funds through internet-based social media.

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  • Copeland was given six life sentences in June 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.

    BBC: Nail bomber David Copeland loses sentence appeal

  • The short dimensions of the vast compound are precisely aligned along a north-south axis, while the east-west axis has been deliberately diverted 0.75 degrees south of east and north of west, seemingly in order to give observers a three day anticipation of the spring equinox.

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  • Cuffy rocked the top order of the domestic champions with three quick strikes in the morning session after the home side resumed at their overnight 178 for one.

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  • Looking through them, it seemed like the average diner would probably order three or four of those items to make up a meal, and still end up with a pretty hefty calorie count.

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  • The Human Genome Project he helped to launch decades later is an ambitious project to discover the identity and order of every one of the three billion or so key components of the double helix.

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  • More than half of mail order is controlled by three PBMs: Express Scripts, Medco Health Solutions and Caremark.

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  • Before reading your contract, absorbing the terms and reacting, mentally list your top three items in order of importance.

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  • An employee at the special share-sale counter took not a single order in the first three days of the offering.

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  • Traders who previously bought gold as a safe haven then opted to sell in order to book profits ahead of the three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., he said.

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  • Six years since a cash-strapped New Delhi began reforms under IMF pressure, the winds of change are dictating a new order in Indian private businesses, which produce three-quarters of GNP.

    CNN: Recasting the Mind

  • Investors originally expected the Food and Drug Administration to approve Galvus by Nov. 30 of last year, but the FDA delayed its decision by three months in order to further scrutinize a series of skin reactions seen in primates who had received the drug.

    FORBES: Novartis Shares Fall On Report Of Drug Delay

  • Sainsbury's, formerly the market leader but now in second place, is planning a big expansion of its Local stores over the next three to four years, creating in the order of 10, 000 jobs.

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  • He also provides us with a yardstick for measuring the chances that the Arab awakening this spring will meet his three tests of political order (not high, at least not yet).

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  • As they report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they videotaped the animals' behaviour for several hundred hours over the course of 16 months in order to record three things: facial and vocal expressions, hand and foot gestures, and the behavioural context in which these expressions and gestures took place (eg, grooming, play, sex and aggression).

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  • For one, though the presiding deity of the Juna Order for men is Dattatreya, (a three-faced minor god) we are thinking of incorporating Dattatreya's mother Anusuya as our presiding deity.

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  • In preparation of the main topics of MINEPS V, three informal working groups have been established for the three Conference topics, in order to ensure the consideration of state of the art research and the involvement of competent experts.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • As of today, AONE has accomplished all three of those requirements, albeit it in a different order.

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  • After days of closed-door meetings, Cuomo issued an emergency order that allowed the Legislature to suspend the three days' public review required of all bills under the constitution.

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  • The stories come in order of composition, with dates, and in three sections, each of them flagged by a quietly resonant illustration (a view of the planet from outer space, a heavily restored classical fresco, a painting of a spectral cadaver).

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  • Montgomerie saw his chances of overhauling US Open champion Michael Campbell in the European Tour Order of Merit this weekend fade away as his three birdies were cancelled out by a bogey and a double bogey for a second consecutive par 72.

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  • Amidor, a mother of three, was making her order at a pizza restaurant, when her son, Schoen, who was then around 4 years old, proceeded to have a fit because she wanted him to drink water with his meal and he wanted a Yoo-hoo.

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  • There is a two phone order limit in twenty-two of the twenty-three countries with the US not having a limit.

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  • At 3:58, just two minutes before the markets closed, Rajaratnam gave an order to buy three hundred and fifty thousand shares of Goldman stock, worth forty-three million dollars.

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