• "The punch-up with Lord Rothermere was the best thing for me, " says Desmond.

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  • That is because it scuppered plans to add an inspection protocol (the proximate cause of the near punch-up in 2001).

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  • Yet it remains a deeply divisive issue - as Russian MPs found the first time it was debated in parliament last year, when the discussions ended in a punch-up between opposing deputies.

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  • McNaughton is looking for something else, and spends the whole film not getting there: it sets off violently, tries a few jokes, changes tack to a mooching sadness, and finally settles for an old-style punch-up.

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  • Frustrated that his cast couldn't fit the dialogue into a single shot, Mr. Eastwood took a cue from Howard Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedy to punch up a brooding Boston-set crime melodrama.

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  • One guy yelled, "too soon, " which I thought meant I didn't take a long enough pause between the set-up and punch line.

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  • But before a single war room phone rings, and prior to the donning of any brand new Nike team caps, a week at the scouting combine in Indianapolis (February 20-26), gives football fans the chance to punch up the NFL Network and join stopwatch-toting GMs in evaluating the latest crop of linemen as though they were livestock.

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  • Opposing locks Mike Voyle and Chris Stephens were sin-binned for a punch up, but both had returned before Bridgend claimed their only try, gleefully touched down by Ringer.

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  • The man who said in 1994: "I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose, " lit-up the dull 2001 general election by, well, punching a man on the chin.

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  • But when I needed to punch it up to zip around a lumbering tractor-trailer on the freeway, the Focus Electric takes off like a rocket.

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  • And we all dress up, and we make dry-ice punch at home, and it's really, really fun.

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  • Police are reminding members of the public in the run-up to New Year celebrations of their One Punch campaign.

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  • Three months ago, Toshiba president Sato Fumio unveiled the SD Super Density Disc, which is no bigger than a music CD but packs a double punch: it can contain two full-length films dubbed in up to five languages and subtitled in eight more.

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  • There will be crowds, there will be bruised toes, and audio guide-wearing visitors acting like automatons might even cause a punch up, but it is a must see. (For some peace and quiet, aim to go first thing on a Monday orTuesday).

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  • Simpson's defense team wrapped up its final arguments with a verbal one-two punch: one aimed at jurors' hearts, the other an appeal to their heads.

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  • "Jersey Shore" didn't end because New Jersey residents complained about the negative depiction, especially of Italian-Americans. (I'm half Italian so I was keenly aware of this issue.) No, the shows ended when America got bored with seeing people covered in self-tanner get drunk and hook up in a hot tub or punch each other in a Seaside Beach bar.

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  • Pick up a receiver on the rarely used phones that still dot the New York streetscape, punch 1-855-FOR-1993 and you will hear a notable resident recounting what life was like on that block 20 years ago.

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