The Los Angeles Angels are beginning to turn around their rough start to 2013, thanks in part to Josh Hamilton and Mike Trout .

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Neither batsman can find the middle of the bat, while Kaneria has gone round the wicket and is looking for some explosive turn out of the rough.

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Panesar began to turn the ball sharply out of the rough and gave first innings centurion Ashwell Prince problems as the ball reared up at him.

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This may turn out to be nothing more than the rough-and-tumble to be expected in a young, fast-growing industry.

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At the turn of the 21st century, Apple was in rough shape.

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In London, where about half of England's rough sleepers are based (and half of those, in turn, in the borough of Westminster), their numbers fell between 2000-01 and 2004-05, but then increased from just over 2, 500 to 3, 017 in 2007-08.

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Granted, the tale of the aristocratic Jen (played by Zhang Ziyi), her tangles with martial-arts masters Li Mubai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shulien (Michelle Yeoh, fresh from her recent successful turn as a Bond girl), and her torrid romance with rough-hewn Lo (Chang Chen) is not that gripping.

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Rough-hewn cowboys gave way to women and foreigners, a more middle-class clientele that, in turn, attracted more players than ever before.

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