In this elongated campaign season, there are third and fourth chances, opportunities to "re-set" a campaign slow to get off the starting block.

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Both seem poised at the starting block of promising careers Dunham with Girls and Lawrence leading the cast of the successful Hunger Games franchise.

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One of the commanders of the British intervention force told me in 2000 his project was "to build the country back up, starting with the government army as the first building block".

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Starting next year, the law will block insurers from setting rates for businesses with fewer than 50 or 100 workers, depending on the state, based on how healthy they are.

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Starting next year, parents will have the option to block 16 Sirius radio channels from the car's dial, among them Howard Stern, Playboy, and Hip-Hop Nation.

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Within Olympic venues, each worker is given a single task so that nothing may distract him or her from it a kit bag to carry, a starting block to remove, a rake to smooth the sand.

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Medicaid is converted into a block grant whose value grows at the rate of inflation starting in 2013, so its value will fall even further behind projected healthcare costs than Medicare vouchers (producing big savings for the federal government).

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Block has been traveling regularly to Beijing for the past 17 years, starting in 1991, when he became chairman and president of Revlon International.

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In a telephone interview, Jones's swimming coach in Albuquerque, Betsy Hall Patterson, explained another drill in which the UFC champ ties himself to a stretch cord which is then secured to a starting block.

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