As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, more than a million more service members will join them.

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Mr Cornwell wants to write another three or four Sharpe novels and then draw that series to a close.

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Net it all out, and the economy is close to a draw.

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As summer vacations draw to a close and school-age children begin the mad scramble to fulfill their summer reading obligations, author Lesley M.

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Not surprisingly, performance was at its worst on Thursdays and Fridays, when many auctions begun on Mondays draw to a close.

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But, from 1 January, 700 years of history will draw to a close as guilder notes and coins are phased out and people in the Netherlands start to use euros instead.

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Then, on Nov. 1, his couch-potato sabbatical will draw to a close, as it does every fall, and another 11-month training cycle will begin anew.

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The girls had done their job well but the Swiss stone was close to the button and there was a red guard blocking so I had to draw the stone round from the left, miss the Swiss guard and put the stone right in the centre of the house.

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Amid the uncertainty at the end of the decade, many families chose to draw down and close their Coverdells, or roll the account balances into 529 plans, says Troy Onink, a college savings expert and Forbes contributor.

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