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Starting at 54, even with this groundwork established, is still kind of late.
With his early groundwork established, Hughes pitched in his first game of spring training Tuesday, and the results were mixed, but satisfactory.
With this, the company's second round of funding ("you could call it a Series B" said Kuznetsov in an interview), Gizmox is looking build on the groundwork established by Navot Peled, the founder who had been CEO but is now shifting to hold the title of president.
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In all three cases, the context suggests the meaning of set the predicate is "lay the basis, establish the groundwork" or in L.B.J.'s more specific sense, "prepare public opinion".
Once her groundwork is established, Ms. Atkinson begins throwing in characters as disparate as Janek, the Polish contractor renovating Tracy's kitchen, and Linda, the onetime hippie social worker who has vanished rather than tell what she knows about the Braithwaite story.
Once that groundwork is established, anyone can challenge fundamental assumptions.
Those gathering under the "big tent" should start laying the groundwork for establishing Afghanistan as a permanently neutral state.
He strongly supported President Lyndon B. Johnson's antipoverty programs and helped lay the legislative groundwork to establish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Dr. Beers used the Boston study as groundwork to establish an early list of drugs with known side effects on the elderly.
David Stern sent a loud and clear message that contained harsh consequences for those N.B.A. players involved in the violence and also laid the groundwork for establishing parameters to ensure proper fan conduct in the future.
The successful launch 3 months later laid the groundwork for establishing a civilian space agency that in 1958 became NASA.
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