• Politicians usually become infatuated with Hollywood only when they have to disguise failed policies with star power: the decline of the Clinton presidency can be dated from the time when the celebrities started outnumbering the Ivy League professors at White House dinners.

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  • Disguise your laptop with a PowerPizza and reduce the risk of getting it nicked.

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  • The sensor is capable of detecting alcohol even in cases where the driver has attempted to disguise his breathe with gum or mints.

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  • Regulators did not bother to disguise their irritation with Mr Schumer's intervention, but they cannot ignore the broader message: a lack of liquidity kills.

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  • Prime Minister David Cameron made little attempt to disguise his irritation with the warnings - private and public - about overstretch which have emerged from both military and political sources over the past months.

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  • Nominally socialist China is a capitalist nation, they quip, while Japan's market capitalism is actually the world's most successful socialist model in disguise, pointing with pride at the nation's narrow wealth gap, broad prosperity and bureaucrat-driven infrastructure spending that has paved their islands and endowed the nation with, among other things, an impressive rail network.

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  • He also claims to have brought 232 criminals to justice - including arms dealers and immigration racketeers - by conning them with his disguise.

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  • It's like in a movie where you do something abrupt with one production element to disguise a transition into another.

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  • Maybe, then, the A199 will make its way to the US eventually, albeit with a fresh name and brushed metal disguise.

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  • Despite being inundated with nearly 1, 000 complaints, the then South West Water Authority (SWWA) insisted the water was safe to drink and advised customers to disguise the "foul" taste by mixing it with orange juice to make it more palatable.

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  • Symptoms may start with a dull pain in the chest or disguise themselves as indigestion, nausea, shortness of breath or heartburn.

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  • Since the finance ministry had long decreed that no big bank would go bust until May 2000 and had pretended that many were solvent, it is a safe bet that the men from the ministry connived with the dodgy banks that were trying to disguise their losses.

    ECONOMIST: Shooting the messenger

  • That will make it much easier to make comparisons with the last general election and harder to disguise the true depth of the Tories' plight.

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  • This political disaster turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Mr Patten, who was rewarded for his election efforts with the governorship of Hong Kong.

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  • The filmmakers embedded themselves at East Middle School for a year, and filmed many children, so as to disguise their real purpose, which was to see how Alex copes with his predicament.

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  • Many non-vintage champagnes--many delicious ones--are essentially "vintage" wines in disguise, made almost entirely from lesser lots of current harvests, with a modest lick of older, reserve wine to steer the blend toward the house style.

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  • But where, we might ask, is the comic purpose when a white, British, college-educated comedian adopts a camp disguise, goes on a combustible daytime TV show, and toys with the more conservative prejudices of an audience largely composed of working-class black women?

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  • The government would consider dismantling "the targets in disguise" - such as Key Performance Indicators - and would stop burdening forces with short-term "initiatives and gimmicks", she said.

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  • It turns out that some folks came up with the idea that they could structure support payments under the decree to disguise non-deductible settlement payments as alimony payments.

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  • One survivor said she was ordered to take her own life (and locked in a room with a bottle of bleach) by her father, who sought to disguise his daughter's failed murder as suicide.

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  • After spending their careers blurring truth and fiction, many retired agents are challenged by life after the CIA. Mendez has focused his energies on painting, on his book, and on spending more time with his wife, also a retired CIA agent and former chief of disguise.

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  • She's cold with Howie (Aaron Eckhart -- also excellent), can't disguise her contempt for group therapy (she quits before they throw her out), and she mortifies her husband when she gives away their son's wardrobe without a word of warning.

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  • Instead, he died from a crushing sadness and disappointment after discovering that Zhu, whom he had courted as a handsome man with beautiful eyes, turned out to be a woman under her man's disguise.

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  • He also believed that he could disguise his age, in this particular setting, by wearing a two-tone swimsuit with the right leg lime green, the left leg purple.

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  • The defendant Mr Clarence is also charged with aggravated vehicle taking causing the death of Constable Reynolds, the burglary of a house in Fountain Hill and assisting an offender with intent to impede his apprehension or prosecution by changing clothing in an apparent attempt to disguise identity.

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