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  • While September is known as a trial-run period for minor-league prospects, especially those on teams that are out of contention, they don't tend to get a ton of playing time.

    September: When Baseball's Interns Arrive 2011

  • One city resident, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, is particularly optimistic about Music Midtown's new trial-run.

    Kristi York Wooten: Music Midtown Festival Returns -- With Coldplay Kristi York Wooten 2011

  • In 2003, after a "trial-run" of four incredibly successful spiritual lectures, friends and strangers implored James to begin his own church.

    Paul Katz: "Mental Muscle" Spiritual Boot Camp (2): About James Mellon 2010

  • Even before the official “Lost Colonists,” the trial-run settlements on Roanoke Island provided several missing persons who might also have accounted for some of the reports of people who looked or acted like Europeans, residing in various places along the Atlantic coast.

    Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010

  • TSMC plans to start trial-run production of 28-nanometer technology in June, said TSMC Senior Vice President for Research

    Surprise Demand Jump Lifts TSMC's Net 2010

  • Some 13 states currently offer bare-bones policies on a full or trial-run basis.

    The Florida Revelation . . . 2008

  • After an only partly successful trial-run with personal names, including Homeric and mythological ones (391c-397b),

    Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006

  • The trial-run period would be introduced after MPs 'next constituency period, he said in a statement, after a meeting of the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Piedmont Park , thanks to its vintage architectural details, has morphed into a sort of "Central Park" of the South, and has played host to a range of public gatherings since the Cotton States International Exposition of 1895, which attracted 800,000 visitors to the park and featured a prominent Kasim Reed, is particularly optimistic about Music Midtown's new trial-run.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Kristi York Wooten 2011

  • After a trial-run in Canada, the subscription policy took effect at the start of the quarter.

    unknown title 2011

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