• For most of his record-breaking 11-year super-middleweight reign, Calzaghe chased career-defining fights against boxing's present-day heroes.

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  • The new Tamar-class lifeboat will replace the present 22-year-old Tyne-class boat the "David Robinson".

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  • Its present price-to-sales multiple of 2.7 stands well above a five-year average of 0.9.

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  • America is hoping for a decision by June 3rd, when the present oil-for-food programme has to be renewed.

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  • In President Obama's and Romney's cases, fathers -- present or absent -- are a large part of that cloth.

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  • This is the trouble with the present pay-as-you-go system: it relies on future governments to keep their predecessors' promises.

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  • The present merry-go-round of diverse agencies with fragmented authority only diffuses responsibility into a cloud of beauracracy which disperses accountability into nothingness.

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  • If so, promising planets may have been sterilized by solar flares or frozen in the past, which wouldn't be reflected in present-day habitable-zone calculations.

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  • But successive studies have shown that the commercialisation of childhood - not to mention the ever-present fear of pester power - are serious concerns for parents.

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  • These people were trapped in a time -- a present-oriented time zone in which you never think of the future, you never think of the past.

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  • Lead singer Bruce Dickinson also left for several years in 1993 but returned in 1999 with Adrian Smith to resurrect the old -- and present -- lineup.

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  • Integrating defensive technology to present one-pane-of-glass and automatic mitigation capability is an area that is going to see a lot of development resources over the next several years.

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  • Its research suggested 48% of councils would no longer be able to meet in full the rents of half of all claimants - the present proportion - by 2017.

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  • Those that use photovoltaic collectors are also challenged on environmental grounds because they are manufactured using highly toxic heavy metals, explosive gases and carcinogenic solvents that present end-of-life disposal hazards.

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  • Past that, the rumored -- and self-portrait friendly -- 180 degree tilt-screen is also present, which'll likely give the C3 an edge over its siblings when it comes to composing shots.

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  • In the Analytical Report and its recommendations special attention is paid at correspondence of the content of education to the demands of a present-day socio-cultural situation, ensuring continuity of education at different levels of the education system.

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  • In the company's first season without Wagner since anti-German sentiment in 1918-19 caused by World War I, the Met will present six new-to-New York productions, the fewest since Peter Gelb's first season as general manager in 2006-07.

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  • We don't know if we'd ever come to use tilt-zoom over the tried and tested pinch-to-zoom functionality -- which is naturally also present here -- but the Galaxy S II makes zooming of any kind a pleasure to behold.

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  • But a previous AHRC-funded project at CAWCS showed there was more than one Celtic language in pre-Roman Iberia - present day Spain and Portugal - but it remained an enigma as to how and when the Celts arrived there.

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  • My purpose in this piece is to present B-B-N as a source of information for the board of directors, and explain how board members can use the information to help management in maximizing the future intangible value of the enterprise.

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  • His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.

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  • The Committee would be well advised to heed Mr. Feith's advice that emphasis should be placed upon fixing the existing Geneva convention rather than exacerbating its present shortcomings -- namely its unenforceability -- with a new treaty that will be neither verifiable, nor effective nor enforceable.

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  • Holder understands that America's segregation of its history reflects its history -- and its present practice -- of segregating its people.

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  • When Tim and Edra first decided to get divorced in December 2006, they told The Wall Street Journal that they sat down with a bottle of wine and a yellow legal pad--without lawyers present--to divide up their assets.

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  • Moreover, when -- as at present -- American policies are being reconsidered in light of assessed changes in the threat, the potential is high for the objectivity of the analysis to be compromised in order to justify certain policy approaches.

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  • His holdings -- past and present -- in some of the world's largest companies, like Gazprom and Goldman Sachs, have seen him make and lose billions at a time, only to resurface rich once more thanks to his propensity to convince banks to extend him credit.

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  • He frequently found himself giving speeches on immigration to an empty chamber (though the ever-present C-Span camera made it worthwhile).

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  • It's not a new phenomenon: Zuckerberg is known for his ever-present T-shirt and sandals, and in Facebook's early days, he once showed up for a meeting with a venture-capital firm in his pajamas.

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