The match then descended into an ugly spectacle as some players decided to they favoured boxing to rugby.

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The glider then descended in a spiral and hit the concrete and asphalt runway, and Miss Preston sustained a severe head injury.

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Uganda then descended into a madness that lasted for over a decade and resulted in the killing of close to a million of its citizens.

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Then in the 1990s it overreached, descended into boardroom chaos and came close to collapse as the business landscape around it went through profound changes.

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But then, he says, sales reps from Pfizer descended on his office to pitch him on the virtues of the higher-priced Zithromax.

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By then, a helicopter was on its way -- from which a paramedic at one point descended to check on Jack, and into which she ascended on her way eventually to a nearby hospital.

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But then, he says, sales reps from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) descended on his office to pitch him on the virtues of the higher-priced Zithromax.

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