Fellow viewer Mae Bourbage suggested bringing back the King Kong statue, which was built and positioned outside the Bull Ring in the early 1970s.

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So for those of us with dim memories of those far-off days, the harrowing early returns of spring training have a familiar ring.

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Mrs Brown said that when she first raised the issue of a paedophile ring in the area in the early 1990s, she was treated with "scorn".

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The affable Hawaiian-born Konishiki slapped all-comers out of the ring for a brief period in the early 1990s, prompting Japan's nationalistic sumo officials to worry that an avalanche of foreign giants might take the skill out of the sport of emperors.

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The ring fence was one of those anachronisms from the early days in the capitalization of Russia, when folks were still just a bit queasy about foreigners taking over the nation's patrimony.

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Aged 54 or 55, he is depicted by US prosecutors as the alleged spy ring's shadowy money man, visiting the US as early as 2004 to deliver bags of cash to its members.

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In the early 1960s, Aalto proposed an extensive city plan for this area, including a series of institutional buildings that would ring the bay.

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