Bradner: I expect some burps in the power grid over the first few hours and days.

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Yet if the email system burps for 30 minutes, people freak out and heads often roll.

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Week after week, on Louis Rukeyser's TV show, one guru belches 8100 while another burps back 14, 200.

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Other uses include a toy that can tell whether it's being rocked or patted and it sleeps or burps accordingly.

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She screams, she runs, she burps on command, and if Riva is the doyenne of the Best Actress category, Wallis certainly the bright spot.

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You know, fly a big twin-engine, 600hp Beech Baron that eats avgas by the half ton and burps carbon dioxide like a sumo wrestler on yeast pills.

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Rene Colwell, 50, of New York, says "fish burps" turned her off to supplements after her 2006 heart attack, but she tries to take at least half of the four capsules her doctor recommended.

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