A former businessman, he is chummy with lobbyists: he was once spotted on the House floor handing out cheques from a tobacco-industry group to other members.

曾经做过商人的他对游说者非常友好：有一次他曾坐在国会的地板上把一个烟草业游说团体的支票分发给其他议员。

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I remember when a friend told me of a youth group she'd visited where standards were dragging on the floor. I was waiting for words of shock or self-righteousness.

我记得，有一个朋友对我说起一个她去过的青年团体，她说，那里的标准推行地非常艰难。

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An employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell to his death from the 14th floor of a dormitory building at around 3 am Monday in Shenzhen, local police confirmed. This is the 3rd such death this year.

深圳警方证实，29日凌晨3时，富士康一名23岁的湖南籍男员工从宿舍楼第14层坠楼身亡，这是今年以来富士康员工第3起自杀事件。

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The remaining eight couples compete for the first time next week, although they took to the floor in a group mambo last night.

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The Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver, for instance, has the Orchid Floor, a group of 18 rooms stocked with Aveda products, complimentary fashion magazines and the type of gadgets that supposedly speak to a woman's heart, such as curling irons and hair straighteners.

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Organized by curators Chrissie Iles and Jay Sanders, it is the media companion to "Sinister Pop" the more ambitious exhibition on the same floor of paintings, sculptures and photographs and brings together on wall screens and floor monitors a dissonant group of voices.

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