Grasso found himself giving a blow-by-blow account of developments in New York to his guests.

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If you want to hear Steve Jobs give a blow-by-blow account his career up to 1995, go and see the film.

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The result is a blow-by-blow account of what those who made recent British history were thinking as they did so, with no subsequent airbrushing out of the misjudgments of the moment.

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The book would have been stronger if these ideas for a solution had been developed at greater length, and the account of the deficiencies of the current approach and mindset something less of a blow-by-blow account of recent debates.

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One top Wall Street executive told me a few years ago how, during Spitzer's crusade against crooked securities research, a blow-by-blow account of a supposedly private meeting appeared in The Wall Street Journal the next day--ending when the then attorney general left the room.

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