• In contrast, football players are given a mere yellow card (which does not automatically mean leaving play) for a first offence.

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  • Earlier Robert Pires (17) and Ruben Cani (62) twice put the Yellow Submarines ahead either side of a Rafael Van der Vaart equalizer.

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  • He explained that later in the year when it is in season, he will return to pick the yellow gorse flowers (which have a distinct coconut taste) to use in meat marinades and Thai curries, as well as burdock root, which is popular in Japanese cooking and can be used for vegetable soups or mixed with dandelion to make a root beer-like soft drink.

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  • Because of something called A-133 (also the yellow book), audits of not-for-profits had become the Balkans of public accounting, generating much more complexity than they could reasonably pay for, unless you were a sole practitioner with minimal overhead.

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  • But a fresh Merkel government is far more likely to make the attempt if it takes the form of a CDU-FDP (black-yellow) coalition than if it is another grand coalition.

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  • Small businesses spend an enormous amount of money on acquiring new customers (Yellow Pages anyone?) and yet they do a terrible job in finding ways to get those customers back.

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  • Ms. PAM FLITTERSDORF(ph): I'm a yellow-dog Democrat.

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  • The cover of Sotheby's catalog shows a striking yellow-gold Patek Philippe wristwatch (1954-61), with thick black strokes marking the time.

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  • They took the yellow jersey two years in a row courtesy of first Bjarne Riis (1996) and Ullrich the second year.

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  • Johnny Ola Munisakro (ph), wearing a big green mask and yellow suit, says he's attending the inauguration to perform an ancestral dance in celebration.

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  • It consists of red lobster-print pajama bottoms (my version of an animal print), a lime-green thermal top, white sweat socks and a pair of flip-flops (yellow to add dramatic tension).

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  • The blue box design could have been a purple oval or remained a yellow and black shield (the logo before the blue box), and the result would have been the same.

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  • Each disc is covered in a transparent plastic coating (either blue, green, yellow or red) which lets daylight filter through.

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  • Board a green flag boat, ignoring those with orange, yellow or no flags, and try to get a seat on the right (starboard) side to avoid the glare of the afternoon sun.

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  • The yellow-footed wallaby of the Yellow Tail label inspired so many imitations (from Little Penguin to Black Swan) that a 2008 Nielsen study showed 18% of all new wine launches in the previous three years were "critter" brands.

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  • "From our point of view, the good thing is that Owen wasn't injured or knocked out, and from a rugby perspective I'm glad (Brits) wasn't sent off, it was just a yellow card, because it would have been less of a workout for us and the rugby as a spectacle, " said Gatland.

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  • But William Randolph Hearst III has also inherited some of his Grandfather's literary genes.(Despite the Yellow Journalist tag, Hearst the First was undeniably a heckuva writer.) Under Will Hearst's stewardship, the Examiner enjoyed a reputation for fine, punchy writing and he even wrote the forward to a book about a 19th-century comic strip called Hogan ' s Alley.

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  • Jerry Maren, a Munchkin, told Maddalena that the yellow brick road had been painted on the floor (knowledge that came in handy when someone tried to sell Maddalena a yellow brick from it).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Despite the yellow metal hitting new highs in the face of a surging dollar (so much for historical correlations), sentiment remains depressed and most investors we speak with have yet to purchase a single ounce of gold.

    FORBES: That's Gold, Jerry! Gold!

  • If you're one of the lucky folks who live in or around the yellow area pictured on the map (it's a map of the upper 48 United States), grab the closest gadget with GPS, your EV-DO-sportin' laptop, and the keys to your pickup, 'cause money is literally falling out of the sky all around you 24-hours-a-day.

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  • Roza Otunbayea, leader of the Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) movement, who was denied registration as a candidate, insists that yellow is the colour: it means ready for change, she says, as in a traffic light.

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  • He did not note that he had ignored large yellow signs instructing him to shift his truck into a low gear (evidenced by police photographs of his brake pads).

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  • Other gold-oriented ETFs include iShares Comex Gold ( IAU), PowerShares DB Gold ( DGL) and ProShares Ultra Gold ( UGL) Finally, you can invest in a company whose fortunes are tied to the yellow metal.

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  • Using the CMY color model (cyan, magenta and yellow) as its basis, the team was able to produce blues with a groove measuring 170 x 40 nanometers, reds at 60 nanometers wide and yellows at a width of 90 nanometers -- all with reflected sunlight and unaffected by viewing angles.

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  • You'll need lots of cash (there are no ATMs, and only a handful of hotels accept credit cards), a yellow fever vaccination, malaria preventatives and bug spray.

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  • Said covers will come in red, yellow, black and white, offering a splash of color to the three understated monochrome shades (white, grey and black) of the hardware.

    ENGADGET

  • Though we mostly handled the books only by their covers (or paged briefly through to ascertain that no dunce had striped the pages yellow or pink with a Hi-Liter), we communed deeply with them, felt certain that only we deserved to abide with them.

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  • Thankfully, there's a helpful option to disable the background and replace it with a yellow sticky-note backdrop. (You can also save and share these jottings, of course.) Basically, the company's crafted this as a shortcut, albeit a convoluted one, that's meant to bypass the lack of any function keys on the actual stylus.

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