They set up base camp, often in absurdly frigid temperatures, and step carefully into waist-high snow.
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Passionate about Africa and technology, Jamme has found it necessary to set up base outside her continent, making England her new home today.
In 1995, the Supreme Court ruled in Mr Masiyiwa's favour, and he started setting up base stations around Harare, with help from Ericsson, a Swedish mobile-phone company.
Over the past two years, Polish central bankers have been hauling up the base rate for borrowing in order to keep up with the rapid pace of their economy's expansion.
Bush will try to rev up the conservative base by talking up tax cuts and his religious faith.
Strasburg, backing up third base on the play, pumped his right fist to celebrate.
He succeeded in firing up his base (though not literally), at least for one night.
All this helps Mr Rubio to fire up the base of his party without frightening independents.
They will be accompanied by an advance team that will set up a base for their operations.
So the Tories are desperate to shore up their base among middle-class voters: time therefore for a risk.
And she needs to make converts not just shore up the base if she is serious about becoming president.
Ltd. (STP) is acting great after breaking the declining tops line and setting up a base for several months.
The post-debate focus groups showed that his style really fired up his base, but is that necessary at this point?
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Hard-line Republican candidates were able to fire up their base by denouncing illegal immigrants and urging the construction of bigger border fences.
Both companies are sitting on hoards of cash and, says Gurian, are leaders in their respective fields--albeit suffering from a beaten-up customer base.
Some say he was race-baiting, trying to fire up the base because he got a round of select boos from the NAACP audience.
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And when the Cold War started, the Soviets said they were going to set up a base at the South Pole, so the U.S. rushed there first.
Add to that strategy lots of acquisitions to firm up their base (they bought a similar upstate New York company two days ago) and to expand their offerings.
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Purcell has been shoring up his base as well, in meetings with shareholders and employees, accompanied by his newly installed co-presidents, Zoe Cruz and Stephen Crawford .
So far, the Bank of Japan has pumped up the base money supply (along with expectations) and the yen has fallen 20 percent relative to the dollar since September.
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Despite careful planning, he had not anticipated the difficulty of carrying a canoe up to base camp -- a support boat is often the only way to ensure your safety in unchartered waters.
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But bear in mind the possibility that they are right - that the fired-up Republican base will not only turn out, but will inspire, cajole and annoy others to do so.
The problem is that if the tea party returns to issues proven to fire up the base it will violate at least two of its major tenets: fiscal prudence and smaller government.
They called on the Taliban to open an office in Doha "to enter into dialogue" with the Afghan government, which has also set up a base in the Qatari city to conduct peace negotiations.
Focusing on divisive social issues like guns and gay marriage may rev up his base, but far more voters are concerned with the anemic economy, which is creating too few jobs and too much debt.
Down the line, Foursquare hopes building up a base of active users will give it options for bringing in revenue, for instance by charging merchants to host discounts or sharing revenue with AmEx or another credit-card company.
Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, California, for example, eschews nanopores in favour of a technique that uses fluorescence to watch DNA molecules being built up, base by base, though it reckons it will not have a product until 2010.
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Hoping to shore up his base, Romney hit two local businesses and a country club in Nashua, where he stood in front of a giant to-do list and cast himself as a proven manager who could get the job done.
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