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The Green Mountain Head Regatta continues to use the stake format but it is run as a head race with an interval start.
After MLB's establishment of the three-division – Wild Card playoff format following the 1993 season, New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson captured the feeling of many baseball purists regarding the thrilling ( and for Giants fans, heartbreaking ) winner-take-all outcome as the " last pure pennant race.
Knock-out rounds then proceed, initially on a one race basis and then on a best-of three-race format from the quarter-final stage.
The FIA attempted to make Group C into a virtual " two seater Grand Prix " format in the early 1990s, with engine rules in common with F1, short race distances, and a schedule dovetailing with that of the F1 rounds.
It normally occurs in the format of three qualifying heats and a final race for trophy positions.
The longer race format and E-85 fuel blend compared to previous years mean the cars must refuel to be able to complete race distance.
Unicross, or unicycle cyclocross is an emerging race format in which unicycles race over a cyclocross course.
He developed the format of the race by involving local mountain rescue teams who provided emergency response during the event.
) The 2006-2008 versions have depicted a horse race and is similar to the current format.
This was Graham Perkin, appointed in 1966, who radically changed the paper's format and shifted its editorial line from the rather conservative liberalism of the Symes to a new " left liberalism " characterised by attention to issues such as race, gender and the environment, and opposition to White Australia and the death penalty.
qmail was also implemented with a security-aware replacement to the C standard library, and as a result has not been vulnerable to stack and heap overflows, format string attacks, or temporary file race conditions.
This format for race meetings was followed in the colony for the next 50 years.
Consider the following situation in a 3-boat team race ( the most common format ).
Also, for keel-boats, the Sonar is becoming popular and is used in the yearly team race format Kirby Cup regatta.
The most common format would have the coat of arms or crest of the club or school positioned in the centre, with the crew names and the race details arranged around this.
He then retired to New Zealand, returning to touring cars to race occasionally in the Benson & Hedges 500 race at Pukekohe Park Raceway in the late 1970s first in Chrysler Chargers then later a Volkswagen Golf, partnering Stirling Moss on occasion for the 500 kilometre endurance format.
Other variations on the format included boxing or pankration instead of the stadion race.
Toshiba failed to reach a similar compromise agreement with Sony in the race to develop a high-definition optical video disc format in the 2000s.
The race in its current ( international ) format was the creation of British politician Bryan Gould, who was a former vice-chancellor of the University of Waikato and a graduate of the University of Oxford.
Since 2011, the tenth anniversary race, the format changed from the two boat competition of previous races, to a three boat competition.
The racing format is that of a stage race (~ 100 stages varying from 40 km to 200 km ).

race and was
He was gifted with animal magnetism and a potent allure for women of any race.
it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.
On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.
How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??
He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.
Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.
When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.
Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.
Emory University's Board of Trustees announced Friday that it was prepared to accept students of any race as soon as the state's tax laws made such a step possible.
And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race ; ;
Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
For example, Boas studied immigrant children to demonstrate that biological race was not immutable, and that human conduct and behavior resulted from nurture, rather than nature.
The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.
It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.
" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.
According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.
In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.
Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

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