Yet in this case, it's not a liter of liquor but a container of urine from Blake's long drive -- a sign of his degradation, emptied in a slosh of yellow liquid in the parking lot of the next crummy stop on his two-bit road tour: It's the by-product of a man pissing his life away.

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Still, the reservoir behind the dam was emptied to relieve pressure on the structure, the state-sponsored Chinese business news magazine Caijing reported.

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According to the affidavit, it contained the emptied fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently enrolled.

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Whereas Mr Suharto was sternly authoritarian, Mr Habibie has been ready to reform: he has given freedom to the press, emptied the jails of political prisoners and offered self-determination to the people of East Timor.

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Because of the grant that went to this company, we can hear the sounds of machines humming and people doing their work, instead of just the ghostly silence of an emptied-out building and the memory of workers who were laid off a long time ago.

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Right before the start--after I'd warmed up, changed jerseys, swallowed some energy goo and hydrated--I emptied every last drop from my water bottles.

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As the building emptied, I ran into David Dreier, a California Republican who was retiring from Congress after thirty-two years.

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Daniel Nava added a three-run homer in the eighth inning that emptied the crowd.

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