You may find yourself asked to pass along a love letter, caressed by a pretty young thing, temporarily share a table with an actor or watch a shot of vodka slammed down on your table by a drunken soldier.

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The bonus points secured by the visitors, promoted from Division Two last season, took them temporarily to the top of the Division One table.

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Among the sparks for the White House session was House Speaker Newt Gingrich's plan to temporarily take his party's sweeping tax cut demand off the table, putting his energy first into reaching a balanced budget agreement.

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That option is off the table and left-right polarisation has returned, at least temporarily.

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Crusaders had Richard Moore sin-binned at the death, but that did nothing to dampen the euphoria of a win that, temporarily at least, lifts them from the foot of the Super League table, while Huddersfield were knocked off top spot by Warrington's 60-0 thrashing of Salford.

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