Although endowed with mountains and cold winter weather, China largely lacked a couple of things that resort skiing in A.D. 2002 requires: people with money in their pockets and the freedom to live it up.
Charge a couple bucks for it on Xbox Live and watch the sales ring up from people who feel like they might as well play it.
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The underlying and sometimes overriding theme in Mda junior's anguished autobiography is his admiration for his father's life and his failure to live up to it.
It would be a bummer, I'd go so far as to say suicidal, if I'd spent the price of a prix fixe dinner at Le Bernardin on air freshener, only to get it home and discover it didn't live up to expectations, that my apartment smelled not like spring in Provence but a Parisian bordello.
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In its statement, IKEA said it believes it can "live up to the guidelines and keep within the spirit of the policy" by building upon relationships it already has in India, where it works closely with 70 suppliers of good ranging from textiles to rugs to ceramics for its global stores.
To have thought that somehow the advancement of civilization and the development of democracy have made it easier for a leader to make good on lofty promises and live up to inflated ideals, those young voters had to have not paid attention in class.
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Boards have also grown acutely aware of their responsibility to shareholders and of the consequences of failing to live up to it, so many have become more independent from management.
So before Harvard makes claims about being the best in the world or the best in history, perhaps it should get an education and halfway live up to the claim.
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So, again, it's worth the ongoing effort at maintaining that strong international front against the Iranian government's failure to live up to their obligations, and it's also worth the time to prepare the mechanisms that we can apply with like-minded states to sanction and pressure Iran.
Again Friday she said the United States and Europe find it extraordinary that Russia is refusing to live up to its cease-fire obligations.
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Their burdens are ones that no one should have to bear alone, and it is up to all of us to live our lives in a way worthy of their sacrifice.
And I believe the right way to do it is to live up to an old-fashioned principle of shared responsibility.
And I believe the right way to tackle it is to live up to another old-fashioned principle, which is shared responsibility.
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I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.
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Too many of us increasingly, sincerely fear that having and raising kids makes it objectively more difficult for us to live up to our full capabilities.
"It is a chance for banks and building societies to live up to their word and prove that the future of cheques is safe, " she said.
Does this mean, however, also that it entails certain enhanced responsibilities and where you have to live up to responsibilities, or do you think Germany needs to do more in the future?
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But investment losses, reduced contributions and benefit boosts are making it far more costly for public pensions to live up to their obligations.
There are also significant threats that are posed by nations like Iran and North Korea that have failed to live up to their international obligations when it comes to nuclear weapons.
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News 24 and Sky prepared to take it live, but the cameras became distracted by a man up in the rafters.
"We urge North Korea to live up to the promises it has made in the past and sustain denuclearization on the Korean peninsula, " Choi Tai-young said at a regular news conference.
In the centre of the park, Ferguson and Paul Lambert failed to live up to their pre-match billing, although it was clear they would have welcomed a De Boer or a Larsson ahead of them as they tried to unpick the Faroes' defence.
Since the Xbox 360 was released at the end of 2005 it has sold 76 million units globally and signed up 46 million Xbox live members.
For Vega R3, the 'pad' file created by a user can be automatically backed up to Cloud Live so that it can be reviewed anywhere and anytime.
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We are -- the President is certainly looking for BP to live up to its monetary obligations to pay the damages and the fines that it will be assessed as a result of this disaster.
There's the ones where we're mad and we're trying to get our voice heard, and then there's times where we just want to, you know, kind of soak up the atmosphere of the area where we live and the beauty of it and sit on the porch and sip on some coffee and watch the sun rise, you know?
"America has been a very greedy, give-me-now country for so long, and I think it's a wake-up call for everybody that we can live differently, " said Beth Diaz.
His much-trailed plans to curb executive pay failed to live up to their billing: it amounted to no more than consultation and getting the former boss of Rolls-Royce to investigate.
"It appears that we did not fully live up to our political ideals, and I regret that, " he wrote.
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