Instead, angry former employers often fail to resist the temptation to use the U5 as a way to get in a few parting shots.

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Bourdain defected to CNN last year (his new show started Apr. 14) and took some parting shots at Scripps after the network reedited footage from his show to make it look like he was endorsing Cadillac.

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After the parting shots by Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, predicting a "dim and dismal" future for Nato if the other members of the alliance do not do more to defend their interests, it is apparent that extending the "Libyan model" of intervention elsewhere in the troubled region would be extremely hard.

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