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...nationals in Algiers was thwarted by security services, and the same month, a group of Italian civil engineers were captured but ultimately released in northern Mali. The growing risk of abduction or terrorist violence by jihadists in the region ultimately caused the organizers of the annual Dakar Rally to cancel the cross-desert off-road car race for the first time since was launched...
...first tryout, there weren’t even enough people eligible to try out because they hadn’t received the appropriate information. So they had to cancel and bring us back next week. Stuff like that really started the season off in a horrible...
...Combining digital-age technology with old-fashioned shoe leather, the Illinois Senator first rallied Iowa students to cancel Clinton's cakewalk. While enthusiastic Democrats of all ages produced a 90% increase in turnout for the first caucuses, the number of young voters was up half again as much: 135%. The kids preferred Obama over the next-closest competitor by more than 4 to 1. The youngest slice - the under-25 set, typically among the most elusive voters in all of politics - gave Obama a net gain of some 17,000 votes. He won by just under...
...money to hire you as a salesman, you then buy a house and take out a mortgage, and so on. If the government puts $145 billion into the economy with its stimulus and then takes $145 billion back out again by cutting spending, the two effects will cancel each other...
...problems have become increasingly evident to customers. China's airports are infamous for flight delays and cancellations. The CAAC reports an 80% on-time-arrival rate countrywide, but frequent fliers traveling through clogged metropolitan airports beg to differ. On Nov. 20, for example, more than 50 flights to and from Guangzhou and Shanghai were delayed, keeping more than 6,000 passengers waiting as long as 10 hours for takeoff. Such delays are often caused by conflicts with the country's military. The People's Liberation Army confines commercial aircraft to narrow corridors of airspace, and carriers must hold or cancel...