Everyone who works in Hollywood knows that the studios will try to screw you out of money.

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In the memoir, Allen claims Bill Gates tried to screw him out of shares in Microsoft when the firm was in its infancy.

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Batsmen feel under pressure when they are forced to play out a string of maidens and you really feel the screw tightening all the time.

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Groupon is certainly not the only company where one or more phases of screw-up-lie-die are being played out.

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But Toulouse then turned the screw and after Kelleher, Heymans and William Servat were stopped short, Glasgow ran out of tacklers as Jauzion went over for the visitors' second try.

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Inside the mediocre lobby we staked out a position near the numbered boxes, innocuously pretending to screw up our change-of-address forms so that we had to start over again a dozen times.

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