• When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role.

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  • Diack, however, said he was surprised by Rogge's comments and intends to mention them when the two meet at the World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo on 23 November.

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  • From 1970 to 1973, Russell Train was the first chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of US President Richard Nixon, at the time when the World Heritage initiative was launched in a Presidential message in 1971.

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  • If we look at the statistics, in the United States, unemployment continues to be high and the measures to stimulate the economy have not been successful so we have to be cautious when we look at the world economies.

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  • When you play at the World Cup, every game is not easy.

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  • When they look at the world in this way, they can easily pick out processes that can be automated to make their lives easier or the end result better.

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  • Pavarotti arrived on the scene at a moment when the opera world was experiencing a dearth of strong tenors.

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  • The result comes at a time when the world's largest user of chimps in medical research is considering retiring more than 300 of its animals.

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  • And here at home, the Federal Reserve continues to tighten at a time when the increasingly parched world economy is screaming for fresh liquidity.

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  • When the outside world looks at Angola, suggests the report, it does not see a hungry, suffering people.

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  • The Institute comes at the right time, when the world is debating the contours of a new global sustainable development agenda to follow 2015.

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  • The report - by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) - suggests the use of digital technology is crucial at a time when the arts world is facing a financial squeeze.

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  • He was crowned 2003-4 champion on Saturday when a giant slalom at the World Cup finals in Sestrieres in Italy was cancelled because of fog.

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  • When Robert McNamara arrived at the World Bank, one of the first things he did was to draft a five-year plan, which aimed at doubling lending.

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  • When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation.

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  • Pistorius made history when he competed at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, reaching the 400m semifinals and then helping South Africa reach the final of the relay.

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  • We saw Murdoch Sr. throwing his weight behind Rebekah Brooks, then the top editor at The News of the World when some of the hacking took place, and proclaiming that she would be staying in her job, despite calls from the British political world for her resignation as chief executive of News International, because of the conduct of journalists under her watch.

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  • Moreover, Sony pushes its own proprietary technology, including the Memory Stick used in the new Cli, at a time when the rest of the world has embraced open standards.

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  • If specs leaked (and since apparently pulled) on Nokia's German site turn out to be accurate when the phone presumably debuts at Mobile World Congress next week, it'll turn out that the assumption isn't exactly true.

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  • And perhaps most important we will send a clear signal of retreat to the rest of the world at the very time when we ought to be sending the opposite signal.

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  • This has become the key test of India's openness to the world, at a time when the country's economic growth has been slowing and the nervousness of international investors is a brake on development.

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  • In 1996, when I started out and told people I was going to change the strategy of the World Bank, at a point when I was virtually being kicked out of the organization, people told me that this was absurd.

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  • "It is important that leading athletes are given the confidence of looking their best at such an important occasion when all the world is observing them, " said Walters.

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  • He shocked the investing world when he announced his retirement at the precocious age of 38.

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  • However, the outcome was far from certain when Casey, 41st in the world at the start of 2009 and seventh entering the tournament, found a greenside bunker with his approach to the par five final hole.

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  • Consumers will have the chance to be among the first in the world to purchase the Wii U console when the clock strikes midnight on Nov. 18 at Nintendo World in New York's Rockefeller Plaza.

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  • But we also know that such a strategy is not necessarily going to do down well with the rest of the world at a time when many other countries are dealing with the same problem.

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  • "I consider the opposition's action as an expression of the democratic process, but I find this inconvenient at a time when the IMF, the World Bank and the European Commission are currently holding a visit in Romania, " he said.

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