• The convoluted plots and the conventions of the opera seria style, with their long da capo (repeat) arias, were thought to make them unperformable.

    ECONOMIST: Handel's anniversary

  • America's factories have reported strong productivity gains as they have wrung more out of the workers that survived the recession (although those gains will be hard to repeat).

    ECONOMIST: The yuan-dollar exchange rate

  • Sure, you still have to do the typical Facebook game maintenance tasks (sail around, collect floating trash, sell trash, buy bigger boat, repeat), but the emphasis is on story, which is driven by in-game action.

    FORBES: Crazy Boat: The Curse of the Trash Vortex (With Map, Guide)

  • But if Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz were right in their insistence that it was actually the Federal Reserve that caused the Great Depression (which is something that Ben Bernanke himself has insisted that the Fed will not repeat) then one way of interpreting what has happened is that the European Central Bank has just set us all up for another Depression.

    FORBES: Cyprus Bailout: Welcome To Another Great Depression

  • Through the use of previously published simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker maps, linkages between the mapped molecular markers and genes for three different morphological traits was identified.

    FORBES: The Four-Leaf Clover Gene?

  • Robin can get back into the act to argue that Terry really should be paying some of the tax in which case Robin will be called the intervenor. (Terry will be calling Robin something else, but it would be unwise for me to repeat that.) On to the case, where I can start using third person pronouns.

    FORBES: Man Gets Innocent Spouse Status

  • One or more Republican lawmakers will appear to publicly waver on their commitment to the pledge. (Norquist points to Chambliss, Graham and King as repeat offenders.) That open questioning is often followed just as predictably by a private call to Norquist -- who says Chambliss has called to apologize -- and more often than not, some kind of public mea culpa.

    CNN: Norquist's no-tax pledge has survived challenges before

  • Carl Levin (D-MI) to repeat his previous endorsement of the Treaty.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Sen. Lott Rains on Byron Dorgan��s ��C.T.B.T. Day of Action��

  • Will this coming earnings season repeat (or even rhyme) with the last six?

    FORBES: The Ghosts Of Earnings Past

  • It was Ashcroft who warned of the likelihood of repeat attacks (supposedly in Boston) on Sept. 22.

    FORBES: Bush's Plan: Too Much, Too Soon

  • The oddsmakers are not giving Watson much of chance of a repeat (the last repeat champion was Tiger Woods in 2002).

    FORBES: Which Brand Will Win The 2013 Masters?

  • And Albalee very well laid them out. (Laughter.) Good job. (Applause.) But let me repeat: First part, let's move to give parents the tools and the information they need to make the healthy choices for their kids.

    WHITEHOUSE: Making Healthy Food Accessible & Affordable

  • We are looking forward fervently to 2014 -- (laughter) -- for a repeat.

    WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall with Young African Leaders

  • The Hall-Sargent calculations show that almost all of this inflation tax was borne by those who held bonds with a maturity of five years or more. (That is because investors in short-term bonds could more quickly demand higher interest rates to compensate for inflation.) The trick is harder to repeat today.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Professor BRAD DELONG (Economics, University of California, Berkeley): You don't want to repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression, and the big mistake of the Great Depression was letting the banking system collapse.

    NPR: Federal Plan To Invest In Banks Met With Caution

  • The 50% bonus depreciation provision was put in the tax code as a business gimme in the 2007 stimulus package, effective Jan. 1, 2008 through Dec. 31, 2012 (a repeat of a temporary break Congress used back in 2002).

    FORBES: BigTax Break For Business Owners Buying Equipment, SUVs Expires Dec. 31.

  • To repeat: None of these interesting and enticing developments (rumors) should be marginalized.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: Turning point for the tortoise and the hare

  • Between them, the women received 231 treatments including repeat smears, colposcopy (a magnified examination of the cervix) and biopsy (where a sample of tissue is removed).

    BBC: Annual post-menopause smears 'unnecessary'

  • Antivirus researchers are examining a new Trojan horse that could pose more of a threat than the Cabir virus, which only spread by Bluetooth (which means Paris Hilton's Sidekick would not, we repeat, would not be vulnerable to the Cabir Trojan).

    ENGADGET: CommWarrior cellphone virus smolders, somewhere

  • To repeat, McCarthy in testimony (along with two other administration witnesses) asserted GHG standards and fuel economy standards are not related.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • WTO's rules (which, to repeat, both Europe and the United States have freely agreed to) do allow countries to ban imports to protect consumers from dangerous products.

    ECONOMIST: Who elected the WTO?

  • But Tony Grayling, associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), warned that simply building to meet demand would repeat the mistake made in road policy during the 1980s.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Split views ahead of airport decision

  • Forbes is very aggressive about keeping track of all manner of interesting items: total visitors, repeat visitors, which sites sent the traffic (ranked by volume), which pages they looked at (also ranked by volume).

    FORBES: The Web Is A Thing Out Of Time

  • Every year through to Grade 12, we sit three exams at the end of each term for every single subject, and the final term exam we have to pass (and pass it well), or we fail and we would have to repeat the year, while some of our friends move on.

    BBC: Exam overload: Are you getting stressed out?

  • Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York): Well, I have said, and I will repeat it, that knowing what I know now, I would never have voted for it.

    NPR: Sen. Clinton Takes a New Hampshire Tour

  • Antonucci, the commissioner of Women's Professional Soccer, is tirelessly pitching sponsors and television executives on the notion that the start-up league will not repeat the mistakes of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the ill-fated pro league that failed to capitalize on a U.S. World Cup title nearly a decade ago.

    FORBES: For Women's Pro Soccer, A Different Goal

  • "However, we strongly encourage policymakers to direct their efforts where we know we can get results: by focusing on repeat offenders and increasing penalties on those with BAC of (0.15) or more, " said Joe McClain, president of the Beer Institute.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Ms Hirsi Ali is surely oversimplifying when she says that Islam's problems are almost entirely self-inflicted, with the implication that all the West need do is repeat the Pharisees' prayer (thank heavens we are not like those people) and go on fighting the good ideological fight.

    ECONOMIST: No time for tradition

  • Tsonga led 6-4 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 3-6 4-2 in a virtual repeat of his clash with Wawrinka last year when play was suspended due to fading light.

    CNN: Big scares for Djokovic and Federer at French Open

  • The Football Association (FA) had feared serious action from European soccer officials if there was any repeat of the violent scenes which marred England's game with Turkey in April.

    BBC: Police van next to England fan

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