The tour progressed past a large flat-screen television on the wall projecting a map of the United States.

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The classroom, typically a local education centre, is equipped with a television, a DVD player, a set of television lessons, a political and physical map of Uruguay, a planisphere, primers and complementary teaching material provided by MIDES or through private donations.

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"Here I am in a nation I had never heard of, couldn't pronounce and couldn't find on a map six months ago, and my remarks are being broadcast on television throughout the country, " the general marveled.

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School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.

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Television is the driver behind the comical conference-hopping that is rearranging the geography of college sports, as the map is redrawn and San Diego State and Boise State are welcomed into something that still calls itself, with no irony, the Big East.

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