And there was a movement that erupted within shouting distance from my office in Manhattan.

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Syracuse was 3 hours south of Potsdam, and there was no other major Division I college program within shouting distance.

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The NetMarketShare report also notes that the iPad and iPhone, taken together, are within shouting distance of commanding two-thirds of all US mobile web browsing.

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Despite a struggling economy, the game's 30 teams sold more than 73.4 million tickets this year, its fifth highest total, the most since the 2008, and within shouting distance of the 2007 record of 79.5 million.

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With a brand-new quad-core processor (i7-3632QM) developed by Intel, a high-end Nvidia GeForce GXT 660M and 8GB of RAM, the new Blade isn't quite at the top of the performance ladder, but is definitely within shouting distance.

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And Mr Prodi's apparent success in bringing Italy within shouting distance of the Maastricht test has numbed his right-wing opponents, most of whom approve of the government's euro ambition but have derided its efforts to achieve it.

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