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  • Barack Obama gave a 53-minute interview over breakfast aboard a chartered jet that took him to Chicago, and he described to these New York Times reporters that he is going to get tough, that he's going to come down from his tower, as he's been not wanting to engage in mudslinging.

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  • And it's just - it's important to try to sort out all that rhetoric and really just get down to whether something is true or not.

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  • That's probably not going to survive if you get that rate down to 25 percent.

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  • And I think it's best not to get too far down the road on commenting on that until we get a chance to personally see the substance.

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  • He had clashed with Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico's former president, who had tried to get him to stand down as Tabasco's governor over claims that he had rigged his election in 1994.

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  • Having said that, what is also true is that unless businesses and global capital markets have some sense that we've got a plan, medium and long term, to get the deficit down, it's hard for us to be credible, and that also could be counterproductive.

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  • Although the goal came through the heart of the much-talked-about Chelsea defence, it was the midfield's failure to track Bowyer's run that allowed him to get on the end of Jerome's astute nod down.

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  • It's the fact that it's financial - the bit that really hurts is that there is still coal down there that we can get, but due to financial constraints it's put an end to it.

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  • That said, let's get down to some serious soothsaying.

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  • Well, let's get the ball moving right down field talking about Michael Vick pleading guilty and revealing that he's giving his life to Jesus, and not a moment too soon.

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  • Here's why that matters so greatly: When we get down to this small size, the classical laws of physics change.

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  • What's really more likely to happen is that if these bond insurers get down-graded by the rating agencies from their triple-A rating, that would cause all the holders of the bonds to also have down-grades, which would mean yet more billions of write-offs, yet more losses, yet more problems for the stock market and yet more ripple effect on the rest of the economy.

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  • Abramoff's big wrongdoing was in shaking down Indian tribes that wanted either to get casino licenses or to protect current casinos from competition.

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  • You need to be able to get down to other people's level and some great players can't do that.

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  • "If that's the case then I might just have to get down to the bookies and put a few quid on myself, " said the Portsmouth boxer.

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  • When someone in Kasia comes down with malaria, the relatives come to Mwelu's hut to get malaria drugs that are provided for free by the government.

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  • Because after all, gasoline is a major cost people incur in getting around cities, and as prices get higher, that's going to prompt more and more people to try to cut down the distance and the amount of time they spend driving around.

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  • But we haven't as yet found a way to get the debts down so that we can be confident that our economy's foundations are solid and sound again.

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  • "There are a lot of candidates who get completely run down, and they have to take a week off - and that's the kiss of death, " says Richard Ben Cramer, author of What it Takes: The Way to the White House.

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  • Vice President DICK CHENEY (Former Secretary of Defense): They would get mired down inside Iraq, in a conflict that's been raging for generations, in the interest of trying to dictate who's going to govern in Iraq.

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