He ripped open the silver foil bag and started munching.

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The winner in this prediction sweepstakes was clearly the Republican punching bag, Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight blog.

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Delegates walking past the Brighton Centre were surprised to be handed the gift of a sapling silver birch tree in a bag.

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The China data can be read as a mixed bag for gold and silver.

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Holmes, who until six days ago had a bag full of global bronze and silver medals to show for years of effort, has now been catapulted into the ranks of the greats.

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Fill up this bag with a sheet of tin, a few grains of gold, a gram of silver, some plywood, a pork belly and some palladium.

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Frequent fliers get free ID cards and Q Bag Tags, with bag tag colors denoting status level at the airline (black for platinum, gold, silver and bronze).

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