And round the fringes members of Act-Up, dressed as giant condoms, who leapt up and blasphemed him whenever he spoke.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) Kasey Kahne's bumper-banging battle with Brad Keselowski was just the warm-up act in an action-packed race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Because they're already busy going after the much smaller drug program--a warm-up to the big act--in place today.
Dr. Robert Michler, chairman of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center, said the data should act as a "wake-up call" for physicians, surgeons and patients.
With no warm-up act, the evening seemed to take a little while to get going.
She had checked out the stand-up act of George Lopez, a Los Angeles radio DJ.
Like using God as a warm-up act, it would be an abuse of faith, inviting retribution.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, another North Carolina Republican, is also part of the warm-up act.
Just the other day I watched comedian Patrice O'Neal's stand-up act late one night on Comedy Central.
Seeing children act out these grown-up situations has elicited a number of responses.
The report is intended to act as a wake-up call, but it's also sparked a debate over the direction of conservation strategy.
Yet the DJ, real name Norman Cook, was merely the warm-up act.
But the real worry for Gordon Brown and his whips is that this could merely be the warm-up act for Thursday's vote on expenses.
Mr Montebourg's promise of a golden tomorrow, which he makes with aplomb as part of a makeshift stand-up act in the street, is proving more seductive.
This is my third event tonight where I am the warm-up act for the President. (Applause.) So I am about to get my steps down and my rhythm going, you know?
Instead of Nelson Mandela, Mr Hague's warm-up act was Jim Davidson, who has dropped his old jokes about his black mate "Chalky White" in favour of jibes about his previous wives.
But no matter who is ultimately determined to be of fault, and no matter how disturbing the failure might be to each of us, where is there a criminal act to be covered-up?
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Last year, I was the warm-up act for Michelle. (Laughter.) I just gave a big speech at the U.N. this morning, and so I will not subject you to another one.
The Judiciary Committee hearing, however, was just the warm-up act for the next day, when all five FCC Commissioners testified for four hours in front of a different subcommittee, this one part of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.
But instead of dropping price improvement or addressing customer problems, Lutnick slapped BrokerTec with a suit, claiming it had violated eSpeed's patents on such bond-trading conventions as the "work-up" (a practice that gave a trader, buying or selling at a given price, the right to execute all trading at that price until he's done) and "trading time" (the grace period a trader has to act under a work-up).
Playing point forward is less than ideal for Anthony, a six-time All-Star, because it makes him more deliberate and leaves him less opportunity to act as a deadly spot-up shooter.
Congress recently passed the 2, 319-page Dodd-Frank Act to clean up the financial industry and save us from another blowup.
"A decision may be unpopular but ultimately the state has to act responsibly in a grown-up fashion to protect all people sometimes from risks that they wish to impose upon themselves, " Mr Needham added.
New investment regulations put in place by the recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) act coupled with a shake-up in the traditional venture capitalist model could make it easier for social entrepreneurs to attract initial funding.
And at least in a couple of those cases, these conservative judges, despite their tough questions, ended up ruling -- ended up upholding the Affordable Care Act.
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Belgium's traditional blocks the Socialists, the Christian democrats and the (rather conservative) liberals, each divided into Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parties are doing their best to persuade voters that they have cleaned up their act since the Agusta-Dassault days.
Note: There's a strict 60-day grace period to set up the COBRA plan, so act quickly--miss that window, and you'll be tossed into the individual insurance market.
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