• Power shortages have become a major issue in Pakistan, with the government ordering an investigation into a nation-wide power cut on Sunday blamed on a technical fault in a plant in south-western Balochistan province.

    BBC: Pakistan-Iran pipeline work 'to begin on 11 March'

  • Ferguson replaced an out-of-form Carlos Tevez with Nani as United continued to probe from wide areas but clear-cut chances were not forthcoming and Villa reminded the reigning champions of their threat when Ashley Young's drive was well saved by Van der Sar.

    BBC: Aston Villa 0-0 Man Utd

  • Sweeney looked to move the ball wide with a cut-out pass but it was picked off by Burns who sauntered over and Robinson converted.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 18-29 Gloucester

  • F1 team bosses are due to meet the FIA in Monaco to discuss the wide-ranging proposals to cut costs and encourage new teams to enter the sport.

    BBC: SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Arden team eyes F1 switch

  • Hooper seemed eager to claim a hat-trick, and he flashed a volley just wide of the mark after a cut-back from right-back Cha Du Ri.

    BBC: Celtic 9-0 Aberdeen

  • Today, a year later, a huge weed-filled lot now sits where one Tuscaloosa neighborhood used to be -- part of the huge mile-wide swath that the tornado cut through town at McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street.

    CNN: Tornado survivors rebuild, a year later

  • Yet nothing but fate could spare the Oklahoma City suburb's residents from the tornado that cut a mile-wide path that literally leveled whatever it passed over.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Path of Destruction

  • If complemented quickly by alliance-wide efforts to coordinate offsets of Soviet energy and other supplies now being cut-off to Lithuania, they could have a highly therapeutic effect on the emerging situation.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: "Potemkin" Economic Sanctions, Take II

  • Andre Santos chested down a ball and his half-volley was saved, while Kaka cut inside and curled an 18-yard shot just wide.

    BBC: Brazil 1-0 South Africa

  • The water cut a 7-foot-wide path in the hillside below, eventually spilling into a river.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This is exactly why the President and Vice President launched the Campaign to Cut Waste, a government-wide initiative to root out wasteful spending in agencies and make government more effective and more efficient.

    WHITEHOUSE: Moving Aggressively on Improper Payments

  • However, the bedroom doorways in the single-story structure are cut just 22 inches wide.

    WSJ: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Frank Lloyd Wright Homes

  • After the Japanese close, Sony confirmed plans to cut 10, 000 jobs world-wide as part of a restructuring, following up on a profit warning earlier this week.

    WSJ: Wall Street Strength Lifts Asia Markets

  • But Luke Dorn, who had been errant with early forward passes, produced a fine cut-out to find Pryce out wide who opened Quins' account and Luke Gale's impressive touchline goal brought them back to 10-6.

    BBC: Harlequins 6-38 Wigan

  • To get the gas to market, hundreds of miles of pipeline are being laid along clear-cut forest "tunnels" sometimes dozens of yards wide.

    NPR: Northeast Drilling Boom Threatens Forest Wildlife

  • First, the livewire Nigerian turned neatly on the edge of the area before pulling his shot wide, then he blazed past Zat Knight and produced a cut-back which was blocked by the back-pedalling Cahill.

    BBC: West Brom 1-1 Bolton

  • Perhaps some company-wide decisions in firms of this size for instance to cut costs by 10% hurt managers at some units more than others.

    ECONOMIST: It��s the manager, stupid

  • He continued to cut costs and introduce efficiencies and in 1986 introduced a wide-ranging review of primary care services, for the first time in the NHS' history.

    BBC: Handle with care

  • The German company said it planned to cut a total of 3, 600 jobs Europe-wide, though the majority of redundancies would come in the UK as that was where the market had changed the most.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Thomson to cut 2,600 jobs in UK

  • It almost proved the case when the England winger produced a clever dummy inside his own half, played a one-two with James Milner as he raced down the right flank and then cut inside to curl a left-foot strike just wide of the far post.

    BBC: Manchester City 1-1 Blackburn

  • Yakin also missed an even easier chance than the goal he scored in the 34th minute when he stabbed the ball wide of the post following a superb right-wing cross by Valon Behrami which cut out the defense and goal custodian.

    CNN: Turks rain on Swiss Euro 2008 parade

  • City's top scorer Paul Dickov had been well marshalled by the home defence in the first half-hour, but he cut free after 35 minutes only to volley wide.

    BBC: Gillingham 3-2 Leicester

  • Robbie Willmott then beat Kevin Nicholson on the edge of the area, cut inside and his shot across the goal was tipped wide by Poke - and it seemed just a matter of time before Brabin's men would score.

    BBC: Cambridge Utd 0-2 Torquay

  • The largely anonymous David Silva provided a cross for City team-mate Kolo Toure to fire wide from inside the box and Tevez and Johnson cut in from the left only to see their shots respectively saved and blocked by an offside Milner.

    BBC: Man City 0-0 Birmingham

  • However, the bedroom doorways in the single-story structure are cut just 22 inches (about a half meter) wide.

    WSJ: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Frank Lloyd Wright Homes

  • There was a pressing need to give the Welsh government borrowing powers, he argued, citing a big cut in its capital spending budget as a result of a UK-wide public spending squeeze.

    BBC: Welsh assembly's 'new power after Scots independence'

  • Franklin added the wicket of Matthew Hayden in his next over, the burly opener heaving one straight to deep mid-wicket and Clarke fell cheaply, toe-ending a cut at one from Daniel Vettori that would have been called wide.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | England | Australia win lifts England hopes

  • XBox, thus far, has cut the middle between being high-end without out-pricing itself to a wide group of entertainment consumers.

    FORBES: Dear Microsoft, Don't Kill Off Used Games

  • Its pledge to the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) under the Copenhagen Accords in 2009 even cites the US as a model: by 2020, to cut emissions from 2005 levels by "17%, to be aligned with the final economy-wide emissions target of the United States in enacted legislation".

    BBC: Canada wins few friends on climate

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