• Everything Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson touches these days turns to gold, from the film franchises he whips into blockbusters, to the diamond-encrusted WWE championship belt he drapes over his shoulder before he hits the ring to lay the smack down one more time in his triumphant return to the company.

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  • The current chairman, something of a legend in his own time, steps down January 31, after more than 18 years at the helm.

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  • Manning calmly leading his troops down the field in crunch time, this time 88 yards in nine plays, to give his club the lead for good.

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  • Fernando Alonso set Spanish hearts racing in the morning session by topping the time charts in his Ferrari, but was way down in 14th in the afternoon session, 1.201 seconds slower than Button.

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  • "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" features a down-on-his-luck time machine repairman, living in Minor Universe 31.

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  • Strauss backed away to smash Shoaib down the ground and record the 50 in the ninth over but he was reprieved next ball on 23 when the giant Mohammad Irfan, rather incongruously stationed at leg gully, could not get his 7ft 1in frame down in time and spilled the low chance.

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  • But with his own plane in a near-vertical, nose-down dive, the pilot and his crew had little time to think about the fate of the Chinese pilot.

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  • The overall number of city workers went down 3% during his time in office.

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  • He took another sip, which he kept in his mouth a long time, his eyebrows parting, moving up his forehead, then shooting back down into a collision of uncertainty.

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  • At that time he would drive down in his 1949 van to London to watch the likes of Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin in concert, then would sell one of his t-shirts to a band member afterward.

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  • In July 2008 it closed down the trading operations, and Gorman found himself jobless for the first time in his adult life.

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  • The Scottish Football Association has begun an investigation into Wednesday's events, but Mjallby played down his own involvement in the tunnel at half-time, when he appeared to clash with Rangers defender Kyle Bartley.

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  • In the time it took him to walk down his driveway in Fort Collins, Colorado, chat briefly with a neighbor and return to his house, Petersen got infected with a potentially serious mosquito-borne illness called West Nile virus.

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  • But while A Rod the human can while away his down time by flirting with pretty women in the stands, his equine counterpart has no such diversion to take his mind off his failure on the field of play.

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  • After all, Einstein, in his special theory of relativity, had shown that time slows down for objects moving close to the speed of light.

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  • Netanyahu cannot allow Mitchell to tie him or his senior ministers down for hours at a time in fruitless discussions about Obama's peace fantasies, or about which set of suicidal Israeli "gestures" might assuage the Obama administration's hunger for a confrontation.

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  • Either he will run to win, or he will serve out his time as mayor (he must stand down in 2009) and then spend his silver years giving away his gold.

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  • By the time he sat down to write his account in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom, " the railway was in tatters and Amman was capital of the new Emirate of Transjordan -- both thanks, chiefly, to Faisal and Lawrence's revolt.

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  • Writing in his autobiography, A Journey, Blair claimed that by the time he stepped down there were "over 2.5m more in work".

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  • He stepped down as co-chief executive in January and spends much of his time in Austria, where his wife, a fundraiser for George W. Bush, is U.S. ambassador.

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  • Wales were 16-6 down at half time in Gatland's first game in charge since his appointment in November.

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  • Trading tools break down, in real time, the positions of a single trader, his team and the entire firm.

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  • It's fun (every time Bond flashes his Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M in "Skyfall, " down a shot).

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  • Anderson does not see Strachan taking over Middlesbrough as a step down for the 52-year-old despite his time with Celtic in the Champions League.

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  • Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness.

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  • Froch had been outclassed by Taylor for much of the fight in Mashantucket and the Nottingham fighter was knocked down in the third, the first time he has hit the canvas in his career.

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  • Leicester just about kept Miles Benjamin out, and their resilience was rewarded when Flood cut the gap to one point during first-half injury-time despite his side being down to 14 men with Jordan Crane in the sin-bin.

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  • And he was involved in Saints's third try, his grubber on the stroke of half-time being touched down by Chris Flannery.

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  • By the time that Samaranch stepped down as IOC President in 2001 it was inevitable that his reputation had been tainted.

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