Making the pre-game odds all the more obvious, the expectation race was pretty well locked into place when, during the traveling clown show referred to as the Republican presidential candidates debates, Mitt Romney invited Governor Rick Perry to join him in a friendly wager among friends involving ten thousand dollars.

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Labor has so much power and courts are so friendly to labor, one of my friends basically had to close down his business when a waitress sued him for a larger share of the tips.

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And I would like to say to the friendly American people that the American people are friends of Saudi Arabia and its people, and they are friends of the Arab and Muslim people, and they are also friends of humanity.

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Friends said he was a "quiet, friendly" man who was a keen sportsman and credit to his community.

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Rather than dark and mysterious, it is bright and friendly, the kind of place people meet and become friends through their love of the treasure hunt.

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The reason he has a circle of powerful friends may be that he is, by nature, friendly.

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"Sean is not the stereotypical cop who is kind of intimidating, but rather a friendly and down-to-earth kind of guy that you would want to be friends with, " David Hou, an MIT sophomore, told CNN.

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Despite their less-than-friendly sounding names, referring to sections of the U.S. tax code, these programs are your friends.

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Guy Garner and his six friends weren't out to cross the law last January when they sat down for their regular friendly game of poker in a cabin at the Chickasaw State Park near Jackson, Tenn.

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