• The 19-year-old striker weaved through the middle of a flat-footed Everton defence and, were it not for a reckless late tackle by last-man Hibbert on the edge of the box, he would have been one-on-one with Tim Howard.

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  • If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid--the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor--into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.

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  • You might imagine that it would be easier to call for a return to military strength and national greatness in the United States -- a superpower -- than in the United Kingdom -- a middle ranking power.

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  • The son of a vice cop and a telephone operator, Lang Lang is no athlete he is as sedentary as a veal calf in a dark shed but he has prepared for the Games with the intensity of a middle-distance runner and the ecstatic anticipation of a groom.

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  • The goal of the civil action -- beyond continued political embarrassment to a president in the middle of a tough re-election campaign -- would be to compel Justice Department officials and their political allies in the White House to hand over the documents in question.

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  • Eriksson may even have got an unwitting slice of luck when Owen Hargreaves unfortunately limped off, allowing Scholes to switch from the left flank into the middle - a position he should always occupy.

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  • Reconciling both of these views is a bit like walking a tightrope or standing in the middle of a see-saw: perfect balance is necessary to achieve the second in the face of the first.

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  • From a fairway bunker, Woods hit 8-iron from 178 yards to the middle of the green for a two-putt birdie.

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  • Technically, gold bulls and bears are still on a level near-term technical playing field as prices are trapped in the middle of a well-defined, choppy and sideways trading range.

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  • Ryan Callahan was the lone scorer for the Rangers (13-11-2), who had dropped two straight in the middle of a four-game road trip.

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  • Ryan Callahan was the lone scorer for the Rangers (13-11-2), who have dropped two straight in the middle of a four-game road trip.

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  • The second: Two 10-bed nursing homes that have been built in the midst of a middle-class subdivision, as fully integrated into the neighborhood as the private homes that surround it.

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  • In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.

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  • When Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger rifled a 31-yard rocket across the middle to Jerricho Cotchery for a game-tying touchdown, the Denver air grew quiet.

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  • Where we are now, of course, you're right - we are now in the middle of a crisis - and, if I might say so, Gordon having had a brilliant start as Prime Minister then had a dreadful sort of year where everything went wrong...

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  • Why does the UK look to investors like a safe haven in a financial storm, while Italy and Spain - and even to an extent France - are seen as coracles in the middle of a hurricane-lashed ocean.

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  • Perhaps the most remarkable detail about the March 3 conclave was the leading role taken in it by Debbie Almontaser, a New York resident who last attracted attention as the front-person for a middle-and-high magnet school to be established in New York, the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).

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  • Writing in the Guardian newspaper, he suggested the strength and influence of China was a "seductive" challenge to the model of liberal democracy supported by the UK at a time that many countries - in the Middle East and elsewhere - were at a "fork in the road" over their future direction.

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  • In his opening speech on 9 December 2011, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the church was not seeking a "privileged position" for Christians in the Middle East but a "long-term hope that the communities will have a guaranteed place in their homelands".

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  • The middle child of Korean immigrants, Kim grew up in a middle-class Portland suburb with a fascination for the way things worked and a can-do attitude.

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  • The euro-enthusiasts also forget that the euro was launched in the middle of a long-term dollar bull market.

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  • The bowl is currently in the middle of a four-year contract with ESPN that will expire after the end of next year when the four-team playoff system is launched.

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  • Now that was a matter of the most pressing importance imaginable, in the middle of a full-blown media circus and in an environment in which American soldiers were dying on a daily basis, and it was only resolved after sustained attention from the White House.

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  • If a deal is signed, he will project himself to the middle-of-the-road voter as a tough bargainer who is also a pragmatist and statesman.

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  • Knoblauch says UL will turn a profit this year but concedes that he's in the middle of a seven- or eight-year makeover.

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  • However, because of different methodology, the fish gets a middle-of-the-road "yellow" from the Blue Ocean Institute.

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  • On the diplomatic front, the Iranian-dominated new Middle East has had a pronounced impact on the Western-backed Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's political posture towards the US. The PA picked a fight with America just after the Obama administration forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power.

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  • His story is the American story values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.

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  • Eyes were fixed upon the one mild-mannered man commanding the entire room from the middle of the stage while seated within a green-tinted spotlight, with nothing more than a mic to his lips, held up with a stand.

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