This is pretty near the pinnacle of my profession, there is not much above playing for your country.
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UN, threw the negotiations into further crisis by insisting on hundreds of last-minute changes to the 39-page draft document that everyone else had thought was pretty near complete.
Universal health coverage has been a goal of Democrats for decades, so Mr Obama's achieving something pretty near to it has perked up morale in his own party.
"Out of the whole list of things that the government can subsidize, subsidies for this are pretty near the bottom of the list, " says James Gattuso, a senior research fellow in regulatory policy at the Heritage Foundation.
And it amazes me that, barring the inevitable snow storm or an unforeseen glitch, airlines today get everyone safely to their destination pretty much near the time promised.
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You know, it seems pretty clear that he was getting near the end of his life.
Just a week ago, the financial news was pretty dire, as stocks closed near their lows and everyone was piling into three-month T-Bills that had almost no yield.
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The mission for Moto Guzzi in the near-term is pretty clear-cut: Increase sales in lucrative markets like the U.S. by building bikes with a lot of back story, nuance, charisma, historical resonance, whatever you want to call it, while minimizing the downsides of the legacy-driven design.
Equity markets when looked at in the near term are in a pretty definitive uptrend.
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While we already have a pretty good idea of Intel's near-term processor plans, the company has now decided to give folks a glimpse a bit further into the future, laying out some its processor plans through the year 2010 at its spring analyst meeting this week.
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Exeter City Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said the city saw "noticeable near misses where the water was pretty much up to the current top of our flood defences".
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But generally speaking over the near term, we're pretty positive.
Well, the answer to that depended largely on whether Q (real output) was pretty much maxed out, meaning running at or near full employment of labor and other resources, or whether there was significant slack in the economy that might be taken up by greater spending.
It seems that almost on a near-term basis, that's pretty good for profit margins.
The greenback bulls are having a pretty good week but the bears still have the overall near-term technical advantage.
To be fair, while I started out pretty shabby, I found my wayto the middle of the pack pretty quickly, and even had a few good runs near the top.
That's some pretty damning stuff, but the case isn't anywhere near resolution yet -- the judge has yet to decide whether to certify it as a class action, which looks like it'll depend on a technical reading of what exactly Microsoft was advertising throughout the Vista Capable program.
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The US big city newspaper business is still not a national market and the UK one has been for near a century now (national distribution of newspapers was pretty much all worked out by before WWI).
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"If he finishes points on, near, or inside the baseline, then generally things are going pretty well, " said Paul Annacone, Federer's coach.
The full route is open to walkers, but only selected, smoothly surfaced parts are open to cyclists, such as the pretty 12-mile portion shared by cyclists and walkers along the Millennium Coast near Carmarthenshire.
He says his neighbhorhood, near the Jefferson Parish line, is a strong community, where people pretty much know, and care about, one another.
The big-borrowing countries around the edge of the euro zone suffered a near-death experience in 2010, and they will be in a pretty miserable state in 2011 as austerity measures bite and households come to terms with their high debts and poor prospects.
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The yield on dividend-paying equities is at or near all-time highs, relative to Treasuries, and I think represents a pretty good value right now in the marketplace.
The meteor exploded Friday in the air near Chelyabinsk, leaving behind nothing but meteorites, thousands of broken windows and some pretty spectacular video of it streaking across the sky before exploding in a noisy, luminous fireball.
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So if you happen one day to be in Concordia, Argentina, which is about 150 miles north of Buenos Aires near the Uruguayan border, a concerted effort at digging would have you emerging somewhere pretty close to downtown Shanghai.
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