In the absence of such policies, the new Great Game could become a great nightmare.
Myanmar is hedging its bets on who will come out on top in the new Great Game.
Kazakstan and Turkmenistan also have huge energy reserves, and a hard-fought race is currently underway to develop them -- dubbed the new Great Game.
At the center of the new Great Game is Moscow's effort to put the squeeze on Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim state whose President, Heydar Aliyev, once a member of the Soviet Politburo, welcomes Western investment.
But if this were to change, the region could once again find itself at the centre of a new Great Game.
This is no different than the model HBO or Showtime uses now to attract new customers: provide great shows like Game of Thrones and Shameless and the subscribers will come.
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As soon as new matches are consecrated, they're replaced. (How quickly Sunday's thriller vaporized Djokovic's five-set semi over Murray and Nadal's four-setter over Federer, not to mention Victoria Azarenka's 6-3, 6-0 rout of Maria Sharapova in the women's final.) The torrent of great tennis has undermined the old fear that the game would unravel with new technology, that it would become a tedious game of baseline heavy hitting.
The deal has worked out great for CBS. In 2009, the first under the new deal, the game drew a 4.2 overnight rating, up 75% from the previous year and the highest overnight rating for the Army-Navy game since 1999 (4.9).
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If you are a software engineer who spends even part of the day working on her great idea for a new video game, you should be collecting unemployment.
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Rather than trying to take virtual characters (and as great as even the new PS4 graphics look, game characters are still virtual) and turn them into live action actors, Wreck-It Ralph keeps these game characters within their computer-generated world.
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My brief, Saturday-night skirt around the laws of the game emphasised the job faced by rugby's great and good when they met in New Zealand last week.
Ulster raised their game and a great charge into the Ospreys' 22 by ex-Springbok and new signing Pedrie Wannenburg led to Ulster putting a penalty into the corner.
Attendees will have the opportunity to experience the hottest new video games months before they're released, enter to win great prizes and meet with top video game publishers and special guests.
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Whether by crafting a great new name or wresting one from a previous owner, online retailers would do well to master the domain game.
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