Bumptious, boasting and egocentric, he didn't age 40 years between part one and part two, or persuade us of all the exotic, dubious things he had supposedly done during those years.
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That led to a generation of companies trying all sorts of exotic treatment approaches.
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Those were the days of folks buying and flipping houses, or running up the mortgages on their bloated homes, and of dabbling in all sorts of exotic investments (which few understood).
These future networks handle data far better than today's mobile networks and make it possible to offer customers all manner of exotic services that give them access to music tracks, video clips and interactive web tools.
We've all got our exotic quirks.
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That's a day that occurs four times a year when contracts for stock options and other exotic securities all expire at once.
Most exotic of all were America's people, whom Columbus named los Indios, Verrazzano called la genta de la terra, and the early English referred to as the Naturals.
Rates were not available for all models, particularly exotic cars.
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So to Germans, Richard Branson is completely exotic, and all the better for that.
Some, though not all, of the more exotic fauna in Brazil's political jungle seem headed for extinction.
In the couple of years leading up to the market's late-2007 peak, hedge funds and other exotic vehicles were all the rage.
As a newcomer to America at 16, she says, she found herself explaining herself to fellow students, all deeply curious about the exotic life they imagined she had lived in India.
Exploration of the New World was all the rage, and the exotic content of "Robinson Crusoe" seemed deftly suited to the times.
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After all, real estate prices in exotic locales like Hawaii for instance tend to be quite lofty and often outpace the national average.
More are proposed and touted by entrepreneurs all the time--such as exotic new genetic tests and whole-body scans.
"We are moving organisms and disease and pathogens - all over the planet weeds and other exotic species are proliferating like crazy!"
Let's put aside the sorry record of Moody's and its brethren in inaccurately assessing the creditworthiness of all those packages of subprime mortgages and other exotic instruments.
Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.
People from our planet may dismiss this film as silly, contrived, self-enchanted or flawed in the terms of its own exotic logic, and it is all of the above (or below.) Yet I fell for it by rising to the bait of its design beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else as well as its audacity in going all the way with a madly chancy concept.
It's forgiving, then, in a way that exotic cars used to not be at all.
Rembrandt's "Man With Feathered Beret" is a handsome display of his mastery of light and shade, his virtuoso brushwork, his love for exotic costumes and his ability to make all human faces look thoughtful and real.
When homeowners began defaulting on their mortgages the affect was nearly detrimental to all the financial institutions that shared the risk through these exotic derivatives.
The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.
Now, with a contract signed in early April, calls from would-be imitators are flooding into the Exotic Dancers' Union and to Local 790 from all over the country.
The bottom line: To achieve great things, you must posses the creative power of Eros, the passion for the good and beautiful the new and the exotic, the perfect and the immortal, the source of all our happiness.
That all-too-familiar computer screen gaze at flashing photographs of friends in exotic places around the world is apparently enough for daydreamers to start packing.
All mainstream offshore banking centres have committed themselves to the OECD rules, as have exotic upstarts such as Liberia and Brunei.
While we've seen some exotic PC mods in our time, most of those still dutifully stuff all the computer parts into a box, hiding them from the outside world.
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Cottonwood Heights police cited Thomas Cobb a week ago for failure to have an exotic pet permit and told him he had until Friday to get rid of all but one of his 29 boa constrictors.
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