Once somebody does it the first time, everybody else wants to step up and give it a run.

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I'm in awe of your families -- the spouses who run their households all alone, the kids who step up at home and succeed at school and stay strong through all the challenges they face.

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The 'step up to the plate' initiative is being run in all of Glasgow's 204 school canteens.

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Torvalds, who keeps control of the Linux kernel, or core functionality, promised that the next version of Linux would run on servers with more than one processor, a big step up in computing power.

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Pavey will step up to half-marathon in the Great North Run, which takes place on 1 October.

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If Gore does run and win, or if any Democrat wins in 2008, I hope politically progressive CEOs like Steve Jobs step up and stop the protectionist drift of their party.

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