Your initial head start, however, can vanish in a New York minute.

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If I could write I note to Steve Jobs, I would tell him to split his stock three to four for one and it would be above 300-320 in a New York minute!

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In a New York minute, French politics changed.

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The Mingus Big Band rang in 2009 with a rousing and raucous 80-minute set before a sold-out crowd at the Jazz Standard in New York.

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We pressed hard, but the speaker ultimately did not rehearse beyond talking through the script in a 10-minute session in his palatial apartment overlooking Central Park in New York.

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Jibreel, from Detroit, and Raymond, from Los Angeles, beat hundreds of hopefuls in a national search and now find themselves sharing a tiny dressing room in New York, juggling schoolwork and keeping up with last-minute changes to the show.

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After John Markoff had an epic bike accident this summer, the New York Times reporter wound up in the hospital with numerous injuries and a 20-minute hole in his memory bank.

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Later she and Coppola senior actually wrote a 30-minute television film about Eloise, the little girl who lives at the Plaza in New York.

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Henry, back at full strength after a knee injury, opened the scoring in the 29th minute, and Olave scored in the 36th to help New York (2-3-2) win for the first time in its last five tries at RFK Stadium dating to April 2011.

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