• After the bucket, Randolph and Griffin wrestled themselves to the court in a tangle of bodies.

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  • Occasionally he spotted an eroding baler or a rusting washtub in a tangle of overgrowing poison ivy, crabgrass, and morning glory.

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  • Family photographs from the time show the boy from Ferndale, Washington, swollen-faced and lying in a tangle of tubes in a hospital bed.

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  • Her invocations of Sinatra and Lolita are entirely appropriate to the sumptuous backing tracks, but, when it comes to lyrics, she and her collaborators get lost in a tangle of keywords.

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  • So for example, efforts to rebuild schools and hospitals, to repair damaged roads and bridges, to get people back to their homes -- they were tied up for years in a tangle of disagreements and byzantine rules.

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  • He has such a fine eye, and his travelling shots of horses and riders are a hint of what tremendous cowboy flicks he might have made, in a straighter age, but his films continue to be snared in a tangle of morality and style.

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  • This is not the first time that Swedish politics has been caught in a nuclear tangle.

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  • Their investigation focused in particular on a tangle of 2, 000 year-old bones, possibly those of a family, found in Slip Gill Windy Pit in the 1950s.

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  • One striking sequence shows Endurance buried up to her deck in ice, a tangle of rigging and splintered timbers, every surface thickly covered with hoar-frost.

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  • And by setting a single standard in place, rather than a tangle of overlapping and uncertain rules, auto companies will have the clear incentive to develop more efficient vehicles.

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  • There was a comedic tangle on Long Island, in which Suter got into a post-race fight with a rival and a furious uncle.

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  • In 1981, while living in Boston, Lynch got into a 3 a.m. tangle with two burglars in his apartment.

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  • The condition involves a kind of tangle in the brain called an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM.

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  • At Ta Prohm, to the northeast of Angkor Wat, strangler figs spill like liquid over 39 temples in various stages of ruination, creating a tangle of tipsy roofs and dark hallways.

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  • Now, one of the things that my administration has talked about is, is there, in fact, a bunch of -- a tangle of regulations out there that are preventing businesses from growing and expanding as quickly as they should.

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  • The rail-thin Thomassin, all angles and scars and wounded bravado behind his scruffy mustache, and Beaugrand, a tall, pale beauty who hunches her shoulders and bows her head and peers out from beneath her brow through a floppy lock of hair, energetically tangle and trade etched phrases and aggressive silences in fluid long takes that seem composed of a series of sculptural tableaux.

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  • Its the difference between soldering transistor after transistor into a tangle of wires and printing the whole design, in hundreds of copies at a time, on integrated circuit chips.

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  • Last year, he had a growth surgically removed from his brain, and, because the growth was lodged near a tangle of optic nerves, he lost the vision in one eye.

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  • Not only have both countries tried to protect manufacturing jobs with employment-protection laws, but a tangle of red tape also discourages the creation of new jobs in services.

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  • The international legal tangle between Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola has been settled with a licensing deal.

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  • TEMPLE-RASTON: That floor is at the center of a bitter court battle in the Kings County Supreme Court, as two businessmen, Vito Bruno and Jay Rizzo, tangle over who owns this piece of disco history.

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