• The Scarlets had the chance to get on the board before half-time but Gavin Evans missed his penalty attempt - the last action of the first 40 minutes.

    BBC: Scarlets 0-41 Clermont

  • Remember the Chinese fable of the mighty emperor who agreed to give a wily supplicant one grain of rice for the first square on a chess board, double that for the second square, double again for the third and so on, before he realised that he would be giving away his whole kingdom's supply before the board was half-finished.

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  • The Senate on Monday rejected, 35-62, an attempt by conservatives to amend the final package with an offset provision to cut federal programs across the board by one-half of 1 percent through 2021.

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  • Mike Lee, R-Utah, sought to amend the final package Monday with a provision to cut federal programs across the board by one-half of 1 percent through 2021 as a way to prevent the disaster aid from swelling the U.S. debt.

    WSJ: Senate nears vote on $50.5B bill for Sandy victims

  • Half a dozen politicians appoint the seven-member Board of Education, which appoints and fires the chancellor.

    ECONOMIST: New York��s schools

  • In late March Toyota announced it would cut its board in half and limit its day-to-day reach, and even--gasp!

    FORBES: Cover Story

  • They chose not to run the ball out of defence in the first half-hour and only had one Beauxis penalty on the board at the break.

    BBC: New Zealand 18-20 France

  • If another winter passes, more than half the original value of the logs--pegged at 10 cents a board foot--will have been lost.

    FORBES: Hug a Dead Tree Today

  • He is active with the exchange, serving on the Comex board of governors for more than one and one-half decades, and he holds positions on numerous committees.

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  • When the board convened on February 7, 2005, Fiorina delivered a half-hour presentation reiterating her strategic plans and reviewing her record.

    NEWYORKER: The Kona Files

  • In a statement released to the school's students, faculty and staff, chairman Mark Epstein said the Board of Trustees voted last week to cut in half the full-tuition scholarship currently afforded every undergraduate student.

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  • Cusworth says in centre Felipe Contepomi and fly-half Juan Martin Hernandez, who have both been nominated for the International Rugby Board Player of the Year award, the Pumas have their own potential match-winners.

    BBC: Springboks wary of Pumas' power

  • For the first mod, Ben increases mobility during game play by using ribbon cable and a replicated version of the original circuit board to sync a full-size, left hand controller with a half-size, right hand controller.

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  • Sony, a consumer-electronics company, began the trend in 1997, by cutting its board by half.

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  • The prison's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said nearly half the inmates faced waiting to use the toilet - a situation described as "inhumane".

    BBC: Toilet concerns aired over HMP Bullwood Hall, Hockley

  • Twenty years from now we may still be bemoaning the fact that even though women earn 57% of college degrees, hold 85% of the consumer purchasing purse, are 54% of voters and half the workplace, they're stuck at under one-fifth of congressional, corporate board, and top management seats.

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  • The first-half was probably the worst 45 minutes you'll ever see from England right across the board.

    BBC: pundits on England

  • The visitors finally managed to get on the board late in the first half with two penalties from McLean, on for battered fly-half Marcato, either side of a Goode penalty for the hosts.

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  • Gloucester got on the board through Mark Foster but a fine Tom James score made it 22-5 at half-time.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 50-12 Gloucester

  • After a morale-boosting start, Mr Cavallo then confused markets with an ill-timed proposal to amend the currency board so that the peso might in future be pegged half to the dollar and half to the euro.

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