• He was seen wiping the helicopter's windows with a cloth shortly before take-off and complained by radio that he was having problems with visibility.

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  • It said before take-off, the pilots had also listened to an automatic terminal information service broadcast about the runway, "but it was reportedly in heavily-accented English".

    BBC: Essex

  • Shortly before take-off last April, Ms Ankour, a 30-year-old nursing student, was asked by an Air France employee whether she had an Israeli passport or was Jewish.

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  • Just before take-off, fire ants emerged from an overhead compartment.

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  • It is a bit like learning the safety instructions on a plane before take-off: you hope you will never need them, but you know it would be unwise to miss the lesson.

    ECONOMIST: Idea

  • Warwickshire were struggling after losing Trott, but Ambrose and Clarke launched a counter-attack to take full advantage of a let-off for Ambrose before he had scored.

    BBC: Ambrose and Clarke rescue Bears

  • Maybin is looking for his first European Tour victory, after missing an eight-foot putt to take the South African Open five months ago before losing the play-off to Richard Sterne.

    CNN: Maybin breaks course record for Italy lead

  • The rocket had been due to take off on Wednesday, but lift-off was cancelled three hours before launch after fire extinguishing fluids were detected leaking from parts of the equipment.

    BBC: South Korea rocket 'explodes' moments after take-off

  • Icahn thinks that Michael Dell wants take his company back cheaply before that new cloud-computing investments start paying off.

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  • "I love Chelsea, I love this stadium, I love these people but I am a professional, " stated Mourinho, who emerged from the tunnel before his players to take his seat in the Stamford Bridge dugout ahead of kick-off.

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  • The lesson of big banking busts, such as Japan's in the 1990s, is that debt-laden balance-sheets must be restructured and troubled banks fixed before real recoveries can take off.

    ECONOMIST: Saving the banks

  • In the hotel where I was staying in Cardiff, some of those supporters were drowning their sorrows before casting envious glances at the television to take in Ireland's World Cup play-off against France.

    BBC: Storm clouds gather over Scots

  • It will take a while before the new-issues market recovers, and in the meantime some companies will die off.

    FORBES: The McCaw Mafia

  • There was even greater surprise when, 14 years later, the former party functionary with no current party post, no elected national office and little government experience (just four years as education minister, between 1988 and 1992), not only imposed himself as the Socialists' presidential candidate, but went on to take the lead in the first ballot, before winning a thoroughly creditable 47% in the run-off.

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  • Before reacting to a high-profile tragedy, marketers need to ask themselves whether their messages will take the edge off during a tense time, or sharpen the blade.

    FORBES: Free Advice: Don't Peg Marketing Plans To Natural Disasters

  • That would leave a brief lame-duck session after the elections as the only opportunity to head off the cuts before they take effect, and nobody is counting on that happening.

    FORBES: Connect

  • "I wish to God that she had had an M-4 in her office locked up" so that she could take "his head off before he can kill those precious kids, " he said.

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  • Israel demands three years from its men and two from its women, after which some would-be undergrads take what the English call a "gap year" to travel the globe before heading off to college.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But before he could take his breather, he had work to do, and he struck nine fours, favouring the off-side with some beautifully-timed shots, and one tremendous six off Dale Steyn's slower ball.

    BBC: England win seals one-day series

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