One player in the Angels dugout wore a rally cap folded in half, with the bill sticking straight up like a mohawk.

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Newcomer Jacqueline (Charlotte Rampling) is also something of an angry ghost: once married to a gay man, she brusquely asks whether Bill is straight before letting him pick her up.

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Reportedly, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has offered the option to his colleagues of voting on an amended version of the bill or a straight up or down.

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The bill passed on a straight party-line vote.

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Bill: If the market goes straight up, as it did in the first quarter, the protective positions will cause the portfolio to underperform.

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Meanwhile, a petition has been started by Eddie Kurtz, a straight former Scout urging the California Legislature to pass the bill.

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The sharia bill, he points out, is a straight copy of one presented to the National Assembly, without ever becoming law, by Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister.

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Suppose Microsoft didn't have any stock options -- poof, all gone -- and had to compensate all of its employees, from Bill Gates down to the lowest-paid stock clerk, with straight salaries.

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Two-thirds of the revenue raised by the proposed bill from the sale of carbon permits is to go to reducing electricity customers' bills straight away.

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Loading his rosters with young players and castoffs who came cheaply and fit the bill on the new stats wave, he got the A's into the playoffs for four straight seasons from 2000 to 2003.

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