Those purchases appear to have set off a national wave of front-running as other enterprises, rich with easy bank loans, bought commodities with hopes of selling them at a higher price.

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The angriest Isaacson ever saw Steve Jobs was when the wave of Android phones appeared, running the operating system developed by Google.

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And it is here where the wave farm should be up and running by the middle of next year, powering 2, 000 homes, or about 10% of Orkney's population.

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The wave hit them, but he kept on running.

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While many investors are running for the exits, others have chosen to ride the wave of volatility or buy depressed shares.

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At the same time, also twenty years ago, enterprise IT saw a major wave of change with the rise of relational databases running on inexpensive servers, data mining, and data warehousing.

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While most of the Republican incumbents running Tuesday were expected to win re-election, a wave of retirements left the GOP with the task of defending nine open seats, where most of their losses were expected.

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One test site, in Galway Bay, is up and running, and IBM has been working with SEAI there already to monitor wave conditions, acoustics, marine life and pollution levels in and around the bay.

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With 10 horses running in each race, it would seem that the odds of any one district running winning would be 1:10, or a 10% probability for the Wave to win.

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Icahn thought he could ride the wave of hedge funds and raise a boatload of money which he could use for running larger and more frequent activist campaigns.

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