• Now the state's Indians are in the market for 44, 000 one-armed bandits, and they have long memories.

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  • For instance, he wants to install 3, 000 slot machines in a locale that has never embraced the one-armed bandits.

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  • It was the day the one-armed man came looking for my father.

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  • But at that time, at age twelve, it meant succeeding on behalf of my father and making sure the one-armed man never came back again.

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  • On my recent visit a one-armed man shouted nonsense at the top of his lungs and lurched past tourists who were looking for a bite to eat.

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  • Like gamblers playing a one-armed bandit, we persevere.

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  • From Peppa Pig rides to giant claws to one-armed bandits, every penny of turnover would be liable under the new duty, which, since it comes off turnover rather than profit, would be enough to sink many arcades.

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  • New to the game are Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a schoolmate with whom he falls in love, and Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), a one-armed scientist who, in an effort to while away those dull days, turns himself into a lizard the size of a plow horse.

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  • It thus drove Woody crazy when the 12th-ranked Stanford Indians, consisting of one rifle-armed Jim Plunkett and a supporting cast of California lulus, beat top-ranked Ohio State in the 1971 Rose Bowl.

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  • Whalen loves a good fish story, especially one the thick-armed, 41-year-old insurance broker from Capistrano Beach, Calif. lives to tell.

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  • But what they offered up for a vote instead was a one-line resolution penned by Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter that Murtha himself, as well as the rest of the Democrats, immediately disavowed.

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  • Is it against a nuclear-armed adversary or one with only limited long-range strike capabilities?

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  • Responding to his question on 14 March 2012, International Development Secretary Mr Mitchell said he "yielded to no-one in respect of the armed forces", having served in the army himself.

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  • Yet the Jones lawyers persisted in their somewhat strange course -- strange unless one asks whether armed with Ms. Tripp's intelligence, they purposely sought in some fashion to present the independent counsel a record that would permit just the sort of dark interpretation both he and the managers have (OFF-MIKE).

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  • With Germany divided and the cold war still being waged, France, both as a nuclear-armed ally and as one of the four powers occupying Germany, had a special leverage over the government in Bonn.

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  • It was his second stretch in prison, after doing one year of a three-year term for armed robbery.

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  • He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname "Belaouar" -- the "one-eyed" -- after his battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.

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  • He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname "Belaouar" -- the "one-eyed" -- after a battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.

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  • Few outsiders know the paroxysms Japan goes through in trying to reconcile its constitutional vow to not field a military with the reality of having one of the world's biggest and best-armed forces.

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  • Who, after all, could imagine the likes of Dickie Bird - an old-fashioned Yorkshireman, if ever there was one - emerging from a an ICC conference in Cape Town armed with a laptop computer, as the eight elite umpires did last March.

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  • That story drew an influx of European reporters, one armed with a pharmaceutical index to identify the knock-out gel.

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  • "In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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  • Hundreds of armed vigilantes have occupied a town in south-western Mexico after one of their leaders was killed.

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  • Much like the Reduced Shakespeare Company's performances of all the bard's plays in one evening, in 90 action-packed minutes units and display teams from the three armed services parachuted, charged, marched and drummed their way through a thousand years of imperial history.

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  • In the end, the play people will remember from Sunday is the final touchdown in overtime, the one in which Tebow hit Demaryius Thomas in stride 18 yards downfield before Thomas stiff-armed cornerback Ike Taylor and romped another 62 yards for the winning score.

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  • Miles of roads, including part of one interstate, around the convention site have been closed, thousands of security personnel -- many armed -- patrol the site, helicopters hover overhead, checkpoints dot the perimeter of the FleetCenter, and police cars are stationed at the many hotels housing delegates.

    CNN: Convention unfolds under extraordinary security

  • The barrel-chested special-operations Vietnam veteran was one of the first civilian pilots selected for the U.S. armed antihijacking corps, in 1974.

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  • Mr Sharif's strategy of co-opting some Islamists while cracking down on others is a perilous one, especially when dealing with armed groups.

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  • Detroit is a city of contrasts, but no one has captured the good and bad as vividly as an unidentified hobbyist armed with a cheap helicopter-like flying robot and a YouTube account.

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  • And one of the things I will continue to remind our friends and allies is the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran.

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