Another thing that warrants further explanation, apparently, is the whereabouts of Haider's left shoe.

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If, for example, there are relatively few low cards left in the shoe, the player is at a disadvantage and should lower the bet or even take a timeout.

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"It could, if the pattern on the base of that shoe exhibited or left a pattern just like Levi jeans, " said Deedrick.

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As she stood in her small closet undressing for bed, Elizabeth Shaler was annoyed to find some mud left behind by a running shoe that she now put away.

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The Italian vote left the market place wondering when the next shoe will fall in the EU debt crisis that remains a serious matter in the world market place.

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It's the broken shoe lace when there is no time left that sends men completely out of their minds.

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That has left Jones to assemble a squad on a comparative shoe-string budget, making their march to the Cup final all the more impressive.

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When he left L.A. Gear, few people in the shoe biz expected to see him again.

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He left school at 16 to join the accounts department of a Northampton shoe factory, but became interested in economics through reading John Maynard Keynes.

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What should you do if you find yourself with a blank tax return form, a shoe box full of receipts and just a few weeks, or even days, left?

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