• Nor is it everyone's idea of a good time to scramble up to the snowline on the 3, 200-metre Kitzsteinhorn peak, just to hear an avant-garde work by an American, George Lopez, delivered by plucky players perched like mountain goats along the cliffs nearby.

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  • He said he was looking forward to returning to Tipton the next weekend for a two-man scramble expected to draw up to 100 players.

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  • This failure "led to a scramble to bring those countries up to speed after their accession, " committee chair Lord Boswell said.

    BBC: Peers want more vetting of EU applicant states

  • The pilot testing is the latest indication of the push to boost fees as banks scramble to make up billions of dollars of revenue expected to be lost from new federal restrictions on debit cards.

    WSJ: Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Experiment With Checking Fees

  • As more employers scramble to ramp up innovation, a STEM degree could be the fast-track to financial and professional success every new grad is dreaming of.

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  • As U.S. cable and phone companies scramble to one up each other by adding voice, video and data services, BigBand is selling gear to both camps.

    FORBES: Pop-Up Video

  • MPs whose constituencies are set to be effectively abolished will have to find another seat to contest if they wish to remain in Parliament, leading to a fierce scramble in the run-up to the next election.

    BBC: Top MPs at risk in shake-up of English constituencies

  • Recent weeks have only added urgency to the question, as the West ramps up its desperate scramble to stop Iran's relentless march toward the bomb.

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  • The middle-aged worker has to scramble to make up for a freeze, boosting his savings by 16% of pay.

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  • And sometimes behavior changes political opinion matters more in an election year, for example and the algorithms scramble to keep up.

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  • The company had an open floor plan and from within the glass walls of the meeting room I watched people scramble to finish up their morning emails and calls.

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  • First, since 1945 Britain has received large numbers of immigrants who do not fit easily into existing notions of class and may have their own pyramids to scramble up.

    ECONOMIST: Class

  • This survey is a snapshot during a time of rapid change as attackers invest in more and more sophisticated tools and methodologies and IT security vendors scramble to keep up.

    FORBES: Is Your IT Posture That Of A Protector, Detective, or Warrior?

  • The Democratic scramble to come up with convenient bogeymen for higher gas prices comes in the wake of growing criticism of the Obama administration's de facto drilling moratorium in the Gulf.

    WSJ: Schumer's Nouveau 'Speculators'

  • Schools are increasingly the target of cuts in spending (deserved or not is another question) and as a result, they are in a scramble to make up for missing programs, teacher shortages and funding.

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  • So, no surprise that he ran an hour over schedule first thing in the morning, leaving his guys to scramble after him all day trying to make up time.

    FORBES: This Ain't Yer Grandpaw's nVidia

  • Analysts say another week of plunging stock markets has focused minds and the real test of this weekend's scramble by world leaders to shore up the international financial system will come once markets reopen again on Monday.

    BBC: IMF in global 'meltdown' warning

  • Such a quick buy-in--the deadline was originally Aug. 11--can push the shares up as the shorts scramble for shares to cover.

    FORBES: Pegasus Is De-Listing

  • But in the mad scramble during the early 1990s to sign up every former Conservative minister going, publishers tended to overlook the fact that Lord Healey's book was actually well written.

    ECONOMIST: Look back in anger

  • Many battery makers have had to scramble to seek customers outside of the car market or line up investors who have the financial power to keep the battery companies going.

    FORBES: Report: Clean Power Is Moving (Gradually) Into Americans' Homes

  • If sustained over more than a few weeks, the scramble to replace large volumes of Persian Gulf and Caspian oil would drive up the price of oil, and gasoline, to unprecedented heights.

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  • America will have to scramble in 2012 to repair its once rock-solid ties, for example by beefing up its military presence in Poland.

    ECONOMIST: Europe

  • Industry insiders report that prudent institutions were running internal valuation models even when market prices were clearly observable: those that were not had to scramble to develop such models when markets seized up, causing delays in proper disclosure.

    ECONOMIST: An accounting standard comes under the microscope

  • That has led to a scramble as more Western banks set up securities joint ventures.

    WSJ: China's Rarest Bankers: 'Sponsors'

  • We scramble through the mists up the side of one acropolis, clinging to the creepers and allspice trees that have overgrown it.

    BBC: The kingdom of the crystal skull

  • But he missed the first, and the Trailblazers were unable to come up with a putback in the scramble after his intentional miss of the second.

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  • But the swift decline in gasoline caught the hedgies with their shorts up, and, they, too, had to scramble to buy, lest their negative bets wipe them out.

    FORBES: Dow 13,000?

  • First a poor pass from Gary Caldwell allowed Itey Shechter to level things at 2-2 before a mix up in the six-yard box allowed Dwight Tiendalli to scramble home the winning goal.

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  • As scientists scramble to understand the ecological fallout, a massive research effort is ramping up.

    WSJ: Gauging Harm to Ecosystem Could Take Years

  • The first ascent is a hot scramble as we cut upwards across screes of rock, aiming for the track which goes up to Tagoudiche, our destination, a village at 3, 000 feet.

    BBC: In search of a lost Moroccan oasis

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