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But analysts were disappointed and technology shares on Wall Street dipped.The decision by Sir William Purves to retire as group chairman of HSBC, the world's biggest banking group, and hand the job to the group chief executive, John Bond (left), set off a flurry of 19 senior management changes.America's big three car makers reported third-quarter results.

His arrival in the board of elections office with just minutes left set off a scramble among those campaigns who had representatives there to monitor proceedings.

Back in the second year of his Ph.D., Italian computer scientist Fabrizio Capobianco (pictured left) set off to launch a software company.

The junior guard Shenneika Smith illustrated that by hitting the winning 3-pointer with eight seconds left, setting off an all-night celebration for St . Johns.

Three plays later, he found him across the middle for a 14-yard touchdown with nine seconds left, setting off the type of joyous pandemonium that has not been seen at Candlestick Park in nearly two decades.

This was capped off by an....inexplicable (sorry Niko), slash by Filipovich for a layup with two seconds left, setting off a celebration on the bench like he'd just won the game (which, in effect, he had).

Lovely silvery leaves set off long pink flowers which both look great underplanted with pale-blue caryopteris.

Nominally, Mr Rove is the deputy chief of staff; in practice, he is far more powerful than that.Mr Rove's decision to leave set off a frenzy of speculation in Washington, DC.

Natalia Gorbanevskaya, a translator on maternity leave, set off with her three-month-old son, in a pram borrowed from her friend Masha.

The brilliant leaves set off eight beautiful replica urns (the originals disappeared before 1920), new this fall to the Bow Bridge in Central Park.

Marcelo, Brazil's galvanic left back, set off a counterattack with a diagonal pass onto the chest of Fred, the big striker.