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Hall, by his nature, is a level-headed character, who does not tend to look beyond the next game, and has been kept grounded by a tight-knit family.
From BBC
Pretty much the entire population of the town of Bodo - where their ground is based - could also fit inside in a ground like City's Etihad Stadium.
From BBC
Families confronting fatal childhood diseases, after working with the FDA on endpoints and trial design, saw applications delayed, rejected or refused filing on grounds that departed from earlier advice.
Sims and Sargent, in a 1977 paper, said they suspected that contemporary economic models weren’t grounded in any real explanation for why the economy works the way it does.
“Almost every major global asset class — oil aside — has lost ground over the past two weeks,” said Jim Reid, global head of macro and thematic research at Deutsche Bank Research, in a note emailed Tuesday.
From MarketWatch
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