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  • His final-minute failures cost his team most recently against the Suns last month, when he put too much zest on a left-handed layup that would have tied the game with 25 seconds left.

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  • Such constraints make it difficult for the senior leadership to -- as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry put it last week -- "bear down" on Pyongyang.

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  • Some gay-rights leaders put changing the Scouts policy on the front burner last spring after an incident in which Ohio mother Jennifer Tyrrell lost her position as a den leader in her son's Cub Scout pack because she is lesbian.

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  • Last November's mini-Budget put the kibosh on that.

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  • Put to the test last year, the superhard coating was applied to plates on a 20-ton mining rock-crusher and reduced jagged boulders to pebbles for 48 hours before wearing out.

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