• Points closed with a 6-under 66, the final putt helping him avoid a playoff with Masters-bound Henrik Stenson and Billy Horschel.

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  • In fairness to officials, negotiating a decades-long contract with a private company is bound to be a tricky exercise requiring plenty of expensive legal gymnastics.

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  • If the Dutch keeper had been less than assured with Anelka's strike, he was simply sensational as he palmed clear a goal-bound header from Branislav Ivanovic with one hand.

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  • During the hijacking, Leon Klinghoffer -- a 69-year-old wheelchair-bound American Jew who was with his wife of 36 years on the cruise -- was killed and dumped into the sea.

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  • New York City-bound travellers with a taste for the macabre can add the recently opened Morbid Anatomy Museum to their itineraries.

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  • Slothful Sundays that begin with a bed-bound TV session often translated into an extra bout of dozing in the Up app.

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  • To understand how he could have been under the government's scrutiny and still make it onto a U.S.-bound plane with an explosive, you have to understand the way the government's watch list system works.

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  • This week, web-savvy bloggers at Geekosystem appeared to have found evidence that the competition had been rigged against front-runner Zach Anner, a 25-year-old from Texas who is wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy.

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  • Another keyboard replacement involves various brain scanning technologies, such as when wheelchair-bound people can control a computer with an eyeball flick.

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  • The Bernanke Fed has been characterized by an aggressive attack on Treasury yields through all possible means: zero-bound interest rates with a pledge to keep them at record-lows for years to come, purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities through several programs of quantitative easing (QE), and a maturity extension program dubbed Operation Twist that should push longer-term rates even lower.

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  • Around him stood an entourage of fierce-looking, dark-skinned barefoot men in similar attire, each with a sword or dagger bound to his waist by a gold-encrusted belt.

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  • Tragically, such a misbegotten policy is of a piece with that which the Administration is pursuing toward the independence-bound republics of the USSR.

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  • The letter also provided new details about al-Awlaki's alleged involvement in a 2010 plot to blow up U.S.-bound cargo planes with explosives hidden in printers.

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  • Last week a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin was accused of the attempted hijacking of a London-bound flight, which he tried to board at an airport near Stockholm with a loaded gun in his hand luggage.

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  • Another thing I want is a book with a really nice hard-bound cover.

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  • That the new phone is bound to be a best-seller, with some innovative features, but won't transform the mobile landscape.

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  • Since his arrival, he has picked the England side up off its knees and instigated a turnaround which has left them South Africa-bound with eight wins from as many Group Six games.

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  • Recently, in connection with a review of in-bound shipments of the Galvanic Spa facial unit, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicated its belief that the product needed to be registered as a medical device before being imported.

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  • If a flutist can receive a full music scholarship from a college that can even include a living stipend and also play professionally at Carnegie Hall and be honored for vigorously pursuing her talents, why are college athletes bound to a one-sided contractual relationship with their universities, in the name of amateurism?

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  • Forget about making decent returns with index funds during a range-bound market.

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  • Or kids can be taken off parents' hands by capable babysitters, to frolic in the 15-meter pool or take part in nature walks, play board games or draw in a leather-bound blank book provided by the lodge, with complimentary crayons.

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  • That was hardly a recipe for the sort of confidence some Welsh fans and pundits were displaying ahead of the clash with Australia, a team honour-bound by national tradition to do all in their power to redeem themselves in the eyes of a hyper-critical public and media.

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  • In an adjoining room, a file on Mr. Mehiri, bound in a green folder marked with the name of Libya's internal-security service, lay amid scores of others stacked in floor-to-ceiling shelves.

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  • Labour's Pauline McNeil then told the first minister she would support him if he went ahead with a review of trading relations with Israel, following the death of nine activists killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

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  • Compliance with the new guidance is not required by law, although Defra says businesses are legally bound to label food with either a use-by or best-before date.

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  • The frenetic rush to prepare its second reading marked the beginning of a lifelong co-operation with the voluntary sector, not bound by commercial contracts but united by mutual trust.

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  • For corporations, the sport is the latest in a series of teamwork-building fads that began with Outward Bound trips in the 1970s and continued with pugil-stick battles and obstacle courses in the 1980s and 1990s.

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  • The train carrying the Cao family was still miles away, but D3115, also bound for Fuzhou, with a thousand and seventy-two people aboard, was ahead of D301.

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  • Higuain should probably have sealed Argentina's place in the last eight before the break but headed wide from six yards, while Mexico's Manchester United-bound Javier Hernandez was inches from connecting with a cross in injury time.

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  • Police in New York pulled him off his Paris-bound flight and charged him with sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. (The charges were later dropped, and prosecutors said they doubted the maid's reliability.) An aide phoned Ms. Merkel at her central-Berlin home that Saturday and told her the news.

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