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Then Mr Ilyuzhinov stepped in to re-unite the chess world by merging the rival world championship cycles into one big knock-out event.
Since the glamour of the football World Cup final in July, barely a week has passed without a big event.
Not long ago, Bitar and Full Tilt would have been dominating the World Series, with many sponsored players wearing Full Tilt patches at the big event.
One of the big paradigm shifts is that the IOC and world golf community would like the event to be played on a public course, something Brazil has very few of, and none are very good, meaning they would have to build a new one.
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So, what is it that's attracting people from across the world to the vast unforgiving sands of the Sahara, turning the MDS into such a big event?
The device maker was quiet at Mobile World Congress and has no large, public event planned for CTIA. HTC saved its big news (its first tablet and a number of new smartphones) for Mobile World Congress.
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In a highly interdependent world, such an event could fuel a domino (Lehman-style) effect, with big losses for major credit institutions.
There is good reason to think that treating Brazil's crisis as merely a temporary setback on the road to recovery is to ignore a potentially more ominous Big Picture - that the event represents another loop in a deflationary spiral that could dampen the world's economic prospects for years to come.
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"I rate the World Tour Finals after Grand Slams as the biggest event in our sport, so being the title defender is a big responsibility, but I don't think I'm the favourite, " he tells BBC Sport after the photo call ends.
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