He's been busy tuning up for the start of the regular season, a season in which he could very well become baseball's all-time homerun leader.

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Eventually, as the orchestra of the Royal Ballet would have been tuning up, it was announced that the defendants had arrived and the court session could begin.

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In the past, to become a good gatherer or hunter, cook or caregiver, you would actually practice gathering, hunting, cooking and taking care of children all through middle childhood and early adolescence tuning up just the prefrontal wiring you'd need as an adult.

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Cook, a veteran of IBM and Compaq, is widely credited with tuning up the grunty details of building everything from Macs to iPods and keeping them on the move, and stepped in to handle business while Jobs was out in 2004 for cancer surgery.

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Cook, a veteran of IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Compaq, is widely credited with tuning up the grunty details of building everything from Macs to iPods and keeping them on the move, and stepped in to handle business while Jobs was out in 2004 for cancer surgery.

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Toyota says it also beefed up the suspension, tuning the springs and shock absorbers to improve handling.

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With the sound turned up or down, it is definitely worth tuning in.

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Naturally, teams invest salaries in their players with the expectation those players will contribute toward growing revenue as performance on the field draws more fans toward buying tickets, tuning in on television and grabbing up team merchandise.

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As the losses started stacking up the last two years, some fans started tuning out Ryan.

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So after weeks of test runs and fine-tuning, Soundcheck christened the space on air when the up-and-coming Escher String Quartet stopped by to perform a couple of pieces.

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Much of the demo is focused on the big improvements it says it's made to search, with voice search that works across TV and the internet to quickly pull up specific content, content by genre or perform specific tasks like tuning in a particular channel or website like Google Maps.

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Legislation to open up closed-shop professions, among them truckers, taxi-drivers, pharmacists and lawyers, needs fine-tuning.

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