Retail experts say the company is already on the right track to resuscitating growth.

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One of the sessions that Gates participated in was on the possibility of resuscitating nuclear energy.

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If the technique proved successful in resuscitating hearts that were currently unusable the number of transplants could be tripled or quadrupled, he added.

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At the top of his to-do list: resuscitating a power station in the capital, a bridge in Mosul and water supplies in Basra.

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Other senators, though, are bent on resuscitating the public option.

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Not surprisingly he came out of the starting gate in the role saying that resuscitating the Doha Round of free trade talks is priority number one.

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So it is perhaps no surprise that one of best performing IPOs of 2010 was Molycorp ( NYSE: MCP), the company that is resuscitating the once dominant Mountain Pass, CA, rare earth mines.

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It also came as U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross was about to go to the Middle East to begin a new mediation effort aimed at resuscitating peace talks between the Israeli government and Palestinians.

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Regional newspapers relish tales of posties' life-saving heroics - resuscitating a choking nine-month-old boy, carrying a blind pensioner out of a burning house or spotting the jaundiced face of someone with liver disease, to name a few real-life events.

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Unlike Chatichai, an old-style powerbroker closely associated with vested interests, Chuan, 59, is known to be clean and honest -- if also slow and indecisive -- and is regarded as being more qualified for the job of resuscitating the Thai economy.

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