After a few attempts it ignited into the places it was supposed to ignite!
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It was supposed to be anonymous, but it didn't end up being the case.
But someone plainly forgot to tell the economy that it was supposed to be in trouble.
It was supposed to be opening day for tax season at the Internal Revenue Service.
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It was supposed to be inspired by Norway's oil fund, most of which is saved.
"WikiLeaks has become a political player, which is never what it was supposed to be, " he says.
And we had a three million illegal alien problem, and it was supposed to solve that problem.
Nor is the Republican-dominated Congress proving to be quite the boon that it was supposed to be.
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"It was supposed to be a contrast with all the scripted speeches because I'm Joe Citizen, " he said.
We were celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cirque, and it was supposed to be a great festive year.
"When the chainsaws stopped, it was supposed to be very quiet, " he says.
The original act described the world in categories that no longer fitted the industry it was supposed to regulate.
Failure to do so could mean that your venture enriches you while impoverishing those it was supposed to help.
It was supposed to encourage greater transparency and in theory at least, bring agency fees in line with actual service.
It was supposed to be a relatively minor procedure, but she died in a Detroit hospital at the age of 35.
But if you look at the past 11 years when it was supposed to be temporary, who knows where it's going.
It was supposed to be a breakthrough victory for Harlem residents and a model on how to settle raging land-use disputes.
So the F-22 had to be stopped at a hundred and eighty-seven airplanes when it was supposed to have seven hundred.
The original mandate of the IMF said that it was supposed to take corrective action once currencies moved beyond 1% of par.
"My biggest mistake was when I turned up at school wearing my uniform when it was supposed to be a non-uniform day!"
It was supposed to turn the many did-you-hear-about discussions into did-you-see-that conversations.
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Pickens' brain lit up in exactly the spots it was supposed to.
It was supposed to be about a two-minute walk, but in the unfamiliar dark I missed my house and continued on past more stilt houses.
If anyone could see trouble ahead, it was supposed to be Greenspan.
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It was supposed to be just high-end residential, but Ciputra foresaw that tony retailers would want to be near such a place.
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First, it was supposed to change the subject of the electoral campaign.
She and Rich used to drink red wine every day in reasonable quantities because it was supposed to be good for your heart.
It was supposed to be a convertible, but the concertina metal bits that supported the canvas top were too rusted to fold back.
While it helped out 1 million homeowners, that number fell far short of the 3 to 4 million it was supposed to reach.
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It was supposed to blunt the effects of a massive pile on by traders in a vulnerable stock and prevent predatory bear raids.
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