To everyone's amazement, he also considered legal action against Mr Botin.

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To the wife's amazement, the smaller income turned out to be more than enough for their "have-to" costs, such as utility bills, and their "want-to" costs, such as entertainment.

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"After he woke up I was crying, I couldn't control myself, and he said, 'If you love me don't cry, '" Omar recalls, eyes slightly widening, acknowledging our amazement at his brother's strength.

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But many of the other journalists here were on their first - and there's been widespread and wide-eyed amazement along the press balcony at how little time is spent discussing things like whales, or even whaling.

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Frightened by the growth of new services and a price war, they recently forced the bosses of the four firms to take each other's jobs to discourage competition, to the amazement of some independent directors.

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It's been seven months, and much of that initial amazement still remains.

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But Mabel's most popular routine was much more intimate than that and never failed to leave the audience slack-jawed with amazement.

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