Dykes told Creel that the built-in ceiling protected against the possibility of wet ground above, Creel said.

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Sources say that he also claimed to have been suspended from the ceiling by his arms, his toes barely touching the ground.

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In January the government suspended a long-awaited concession of 2, 600 km of federal roads on the ground that returns to investors of nearly 13%, the ceiling set by the government's audit court, would be too generous.

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They saw Republicans lose ground in the polls and with voters after precipitating the last debt ceiling crisis in 2011.

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