It was not the margin of the defeat, the biggest ever in a major PDC final, that was so bewildering.

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Even when you look at cellular phones in the second generation you have four different standards: GSM, TDMA, CDMA, PDC.

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But Barneveld insisted he would return to the Lakeside and would not be swayed by the larger prize money on offer at the PDC World Championship.

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San Antonio-based Pioneer Drilling (amex: PDC - news - people ) is a contract driller, but does its business on land in Oklahoma and throughout Texas and the Rocky Mountains.

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Barneveld also said he enjoyed unprecedented coverage through the BDO World Darts Championship and feared that may be compromised by a move to the PDC tournament, which is shown on Sky satellite television.

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In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.

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Among the largest underlying components of XOP, in trading today Delek US Holdings Inc ( NYSE: DK) is up about 0.7%, PDC Energy Inc ( NASD: PDCE) is down about 0.9%, and Valero Energy Corp. ( NYSE: VLO) is higher by about 0.1%.

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