Benin's francs have Olympic figures, to gear up for its participation in the 2008 games in Beijing.
As stores gear up for the crucial holiday shopping season, Sears seems stagnant.
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Whether or not there is another Asian crisis, companies need to do as Ayala is doing: gear up for global competition.
As you clean out your garage, get back from vacation or gear up for school in the fall, you might be doing some trading.
Sporting goods and musical instrument stores are also potentially headed for stronger business as students gear up for fall sports and new music classes, Schaefer said.
As we gear up for a post-MDG world, we must also look to new ideas, new initiatives, and new leaders in the fight for gender equality.
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As the presidential candidates gear up for next week's primaries and caucuses in Michigan, Nevada and South Carolina, many of their children are keeping busy as well.
Having the right inventory and the right levels of that inventory is the holy grail for retailers, especially as they gear up for the holiday shopping frenzy.
And both planned outages and unscheduled maintenance as American refineries gear up for higher demand in the spring and summer have put a crimp in supply, she said.
Living in the northeast, Philly to be exact, I always love feeling that cool, crisp fall air on a Sunday afternoon as my beloved Eagles gear up for battle.
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When you really gear up for something, the letdown is that much starker (you get the feeling Jim Harbaugh would crash harder from a loss than his brother John would).
The campaign trail has been full of blue-collar imagery this week -- the candidates have been eating lunch with workers, stopping at gas stations and touring factories as they gear up for the next contests.
Keith Clements, secretary of the Geneva-based Conference of European Churches, which groups over 100 Protestant and Orthodox religious groups, says his members must gear up for a sometimes difficult dialogue with Muslims of all stripes, from moderates to militants.
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Public authorities have had nearly four years to gear themselves up for the act.
Asian governments and companies did much of it last year -- restraining credit, trimming corporate fat, lifting productivity -- to cool overheating economies and gear up enterprises for competition.
Nonetheless, Mr. Harper charges that academics like me, who are obsessed with high theory, cause "institutional inertia" in law schools and prevent the sort of evolution necessary to gear students up for the 21st-century legal market.
An idle gear, picked up for 45 cents on Canal Street, allowed him to make reverse carriages for right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew.
But Hill must now gear his team up for their 35th straight season in the bottom tier of the Football League after a final in which his team struggled to cope at times with Stockport's superior passing and movement.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday expressed "deep shock and grief over the tragedy, " ordering his country's Civil Aviation Authority "to gear up all its resources for rescue operation, " state media reported.
In a fleet of cars, they all made the journey to the weigh-in, where the usual shouts of "In-ger-land" were mixed in with good-humoured banter with some Kessler supporters, who'd dressed up in viking gear for the afternoon.
She loaded up on all that gear for her little brother, which is very sweet and generous.
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The unit's 2, 300 Marines will pack up their equipment and gear for the trip back to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, aboard the USS Nassau, USS Austin and USS Tortuga, McSweeney said.
That means rewarding them for shifting up a gear from making incremental improvements to their existing products, to coming up with radical innovations that rewrite the market rules.
An experimental pacemaker in testing that can be installed through a catheter without surgery could help open up new markets for heart gear in India, where there are few doctors trained to implant current pacemaker devices.
No surprise that contract manufacturers for electronic gear have sprung up in Malaysia and China, where skill levels are high but labor costs only a fourth what it does in the U.S. GM's former parts-making subsidiary, Delphi, which opened its first plant in Mexico in 1978, now has 55 plants there.
Derailleur gears have a front mech (short for front gear mechanism) to shift the chain between two or three chainrings and a rear mech (short for rear gear mechanism) with up to 10 sprockets.
And Mr Kahneman cites studies that show how overoptimistic chief executives (as measured by the amount of stock they own) were more likely to gear up their balance-sheets and pay too much for acquisitions.
It was the cue for the Robins to move up a gear as Galea's sharp switch in direction and hand-off got them off the mark on seven minutes and handed Dobson an easy conversion.
You can start at AAC 64kbps through to 320kbps, or step things up a gear and go full PCM with the option for 44.1, 48, and 96kHz and bit depths of 16 or 24.
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