Japan has been called the lead goose in that V-formation.

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It's a win-win situation, except that Chicago Tribune ace reporter Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger) has been assigned to cook the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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The ancient Egyptians ate goose, and it has been popular in Europe since the Middle Ages.

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For remote airports such as Goose Bay and Gander, which have been largely bypassed in recent years by jetliners' longer range capabilities, fueling stops can bring in tens of thousands of dollars in landing fees and other revenue a month.

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They shoot a lot of movies there: My heart throbbed when we saw the 13th-century kitchen into which Sophie Marceau rode on horseback in La Fille de d'Artagnan, but it could have been the onset of arteriosclerosis from that day's ration of goose fat.

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But defence barrister, Julian Goose QC, said it was not true Mr Piper's company had been engaged as the "single point of contact" for such a wide-ranging task.

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