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                                                                                                                                                                                             [CLS] Many of the key Arab states — most notably Saudi Arabia — spent weeks playing coy about whether they would attend and whom they would send. [SEP]
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                                                                                                        [CLS] South Korea's benchmark KOSPI slid 2.5 percent to its lowest level in two months and Australia's key S&P/ASX 200 shed 1.9 percent to levels last seen in late September. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                  [CLS] NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street rebounded Wednesday after key earnings reports from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Yahoo Inc. and other companies topped Wall Street forecasts. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                                        [CLS] The Democratic candidate hires a key strategist for what the campaign calls a “rapid-response effort” in the heady final stretches of the primary cycle. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                      [CLS] Mr. Jones “quickly established a good rapport with key donors” that allowed it to eliminate debt and mount a full season, said Paul Griswold, the company’s finance director. [SEP]
[CLS] But an Asian diplomat said that Gambari, who came back to Yangon on Sunday for talks with Suu Kyi, flew back to Naypyitaw late in the evening, raising hopes that he would still be able to meet the two key officials in the government. [SEP]
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                                                                                                [CLS] According to the former president of Trinity College, Richard Hersh, who played a key role in designing the test, a study of results at 200 colleges representing a cross-section of institutions shows, not surprisingly, that some places do a much more effective job of teaching than others. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                   [CLS] Europe's main ODIHR election watchdog -- seen in the West as a key yardstick of the fairness of an election -- decided not to monitor the election, citing obstruction by Russian authorities. [SEP]
                                                      [CLS] The F.C.C. ought to treat a broadcast licensee’s commitment of resources to original local reporting on public affairs as a key factor in its decisions about regulatory issues. [SEP]
[CLS] 10 — Two Federal Reserve officials said on Monday that the turmoil in housing and mortgage lending had begun to threaten the overall economy, which policy makers have called the key test for deciding whether to lower interest rates at their next policy meeting next week. [SEP]
                                                                                                                               [CLS] But now it seems Hollywood must be using 9/11 as a key element in pitch meetings. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                                [CLS] Interstate 5 is a key route connecting Southern and Northern California, as well as a major commuter link between Los Angeles and its northern suburbs. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [CLS] A key piece of new functionality for Ops Center is a browser-based user interface, which Sun said is easier to use. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                                                                     [CLS] Youssef Squali at Jefferies & Co. says two key factors are driving the stock up. [SEP]
                                                                                                                              [CLS] His ability to establish an intimate, transforming connection with believers is a key element of evangelical Christianity. [SEP]
[CLS] Mr. Hurd, 50, argues that H.P. will be able to fend off competitors in its personal computer and copier businesses and will be able to mount a software challenge aimed at I.B.M. Q. What would you say was the key element of your management style that allowed you to stabilize H.P. after the spectacular ouster of Carly Fiorina? [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                [CLS] Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, is a key indicator of retailer performance since it measures growth at existing stores rather than newly opened ones. [SEP]
                                                                                                          [CLS] In my reading of the origins of civil society in the West (i.e., in its current form, democracy), the key players were not a small group of intellectuals reading Greek sources (precious few) in praise of democracy. [SEP]
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                                                                            [CLS] “Even as times change and technology advances, the key to the city symbolizes how New York City’s gates will always remain open,” said Matthew Kelly, a spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg. [SEP]
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                                                         [CLS] And an official, five-and-three-quarters-inch-long gold-plated pewter key to prove it. [SEP]
                                                                                                                           [CLS] The key itself has not changed markedly for more than three decades, judging from a collection at City Hall that includes examples from the administrations of Abraham D. Beame (1974-77), Edward I. Koch (1978-89) and Mr. Giuliani (1994-2001). [SEP]
                                                             [CLS] It works like a credit card, but it is small enough to fit onto a key chain. [SEP]
                                                                                                     [CLS] In it lay three keys on a key chain in the shape of a red speedboat. [SEP]
[CLS] I never thought there was going to be any sort of nostalgia for childhood in the 1970s, a time of skyrocketing divorce, “latch key kids” and newly liberated adults who sometimes behaved rather badly toward their much less with-it offspring. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                                                                                                        [CLS] The Red Sox will now have all their key players from their 2007 championship team in place for next season. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                                                                          [CLS] BUTLER 84, VIRGINIA TECH 78 Mike Green scored 12 points and had a key assist in overtime as No. 22 Butler (5-0) beat Virginia Tech (2-1) in the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage. [SEP]
[CLS] At stake for the Giants, depending on which side of the debate is shouting loudest, is either trying to make a memorable dent in N.F.L. history and shuffling the championship expectations of both teams, or taking the chance of losing a key player to injury and succumbing to a confidence-shattering blowout loss. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                        [CLS] Zam Fredrick had a chance to win the game for South Carolina (3-3), but Cam Long stole the ball near the top of the key and ran out the clock. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             [CLS] Three of their key players (Marbury, Crawford and David Lee) played more than 40 minutes in Sacramento. [SEP]
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                                                                                                                                                                                                         [CLS] A key for the Giants on Sunday will be in disguising their run and pass intentions when shuffling their seemingly one-dimensional tight ends. [SEP]
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                                       [CLS] STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, which are key to understanding questions like why the ozone layer is thinning. [SEP]
                                                                                                                               [CLS] She is probably Samedi’s daughter, but is she part of the conspiracy or the key to Sim’s salvation? [SEP]
[CLS] If the Giants (1-2) were to name a three-game most valuable player, it would be Burress, whose ability to play on a sprained ankle against the Eagles (1-2) at Giants Stadium on Sunday night could be the key to that matchup. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                                             [CLS] Horses have been the lifelong key to satisfying the real feminine needs for me and my daughter. [SEP]
                                                                                                                                                             [CLS] Connecticut cornerback Darius Butler said the key to defeating Louisville would be pressuring Brohm. [SEP]
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