But, honestly, I believe that some day it is--something is going to happen.

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One thing seems more certain: In an automobile, when you put the accelerator pedal to the floor, something is going to happen.

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And we worry that some 14-year-old is going to get stalked and something terrible is going to happen because of our phone.

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But "it is not absolutely a cause for alarm that if your child is born prematurely, something terrible is going to happen to it", said Dr Geeta Swamy of Duke University Medical Center, who carried out the research.

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Whether you have a house and a good mortgage, you still worry that something else is going to happen.

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Getting to the next level is going to require something big to happen.

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Something is going to have to happen to slow down health spending.

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You hear it on the streets, but it's something that you really don't think is going to happen to you and...

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"This is so good, something bad's going to happen to me, " Mayer reflects after playing a lick from "Bigger Than My Body" off his new album.

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The only way that is going to happen is for America to invent something new and big, and fast.

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These are the people who wait to see what is going to happen, hoping that somebody else solves the problem for them or that something happens and miraculously changes the situation.

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