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  • The risk in Iraq is that despite good intentions, we'll become irritated and distracted and leave the job half-done, as we did after the first gulf war and after Afghanistan, when we refused to provide security outside Kabul.

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  • They also wanted Iceland to talk to the IMF, which the authorities appear to have done only half-heartedly at first.

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  • The company has about a dozen new-product introduction centers around the world, but more than half of the top-secret jobs are done here.

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  • Miskimmin missed a further second-half chance but Glenavon had done enough.

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  • Fly-half Evans, who had done so much to steer the Londoners to this stage with his heroics against Stade Francais in the pool stage, made an early dart and offload to Gonzalo Tiesi.

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  • It is typically done with a half-day to two-day course in which participants learn about the nine personality types, pinpoint their own and find out what makes them tick -- and ticked off.

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  • Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.

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  • Even half-trained he probably still would have done better than most of this field.

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  • So Hodgson will have been especially disappointed to see them concede again, from another corner, in first-half injury time after Schwarzer had done brilliantly to turn away Fabio Grosso's shot.

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  • The house-price meltdown is only half done.

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  • That Microsoft has done it by looking back half-a-century is part of the irony.

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  • Davis failed with another penalty and Gopperth showed him how it was done to give Newcastle a half-time lead.

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  • Remotely wiping Honan's computers and mobile devices, permanently erasing data including a year-and-a-half of photos of his young daughter, was also done without any real reason.

    CNN: Heather Kelly,

  • In tech-savvy San Francisco, more than half of restaurant reservations are done by OpenTable.

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  • The scrum-half slid in underneath the posts after Wigan looked to have done enough to hold on for the victory.

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  • Waldrom sat out the game's final minutes after killing possession, but he and his team-mates had done more than enough in the second half to end the contest comfortably in charge, underlined as Steve Mafi was driven over from close range.

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  • The survey revealed that just over half are working full-time, and 71% feel they should have done things differently while preparing to enter the real world.

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  • In addition, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed that all flags at state government buildings be flown at half-staff Monday in Clark's honor, as he's done with other Empire State troops who have died in combat zones.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "I think I speak for everyone connected with the club in saying I would very much like Paul and his backroom team to stay on at the City Ground and continue the excellent job they have done in the last two-and-a-half years, " Forest chairman Nigel Doughty said.

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  • "I think I speak for everyone connected with the club in saying I would very much like Paul and his backroom team to stay on at the City Ground and continue the excellent job they have done in the last two-and-a-half years, " Doughty told the club's official website.

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  • "I've enjoyed my seven-and-a-half years here and I feel there's a job yet to be done, " said Storrie.

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  • Some estimates suggest that half of all money transfers from migrants living abroad are done outside the formal sector - that is, banks or money transfer firms.

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  • And it was Henry who got his second of the match on the stroke of half-time. with his shot beating Giles, although the 'keeper should have done better.

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  • After about half an hour's hard climb - though it's the donkeys that have done all the work - we reach the Deir, a truly magnificent facade carved massively into a coffee-coloured cliff face.

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  • In fact, they might have been level immediately after half time had Murphy done better from 16 yards when he curled wide after a defensive mix-up.

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  • Faces covered in dust, frantic groups of men trying to be large enough in number to get the job done but small enough to leave space to work in the cramped confines of a half-collapsed building.

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  • Once they do, average euro-wide interest rates will have fallen by half a percentage point as much as they have done in the past month or so in the United States.

    ECONOMIST: Too much interest?

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