Then Christmas Eve and Christmas passed, as had Henry Cleary's eighth birthday.

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Then last November, on the eve of Aloha's exit from Chapter 11, Giuliani Capital decided it deserved a bigger payday.

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Then on New Year's Eve, the drill barge Kulluk had to be cut loose in a severe storm while being towed back to its winter home port in Seattle.

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With all he has to do Santa will be in the Shipwreck exhibit on the weekends and even on Christmas Eve until 8 p.m. then he must get on his way to deliver the presents to the good little girls and boys around the world.

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If Greeks reject the 50% controlled default on the debts they owe to the banking sector, then the arithmetic I revealed on Newsnight on the eve of the Euro summit comes into play - without a 50% haircut, and a further 130bn euro bailout, on top of 110bn, Greek debt spirals out of control and the country goes bust.

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Mr Roberts said that on Christmas Eve Mr Aleksiunas confronted the couple and asked them to get in a car which he then drove around Scunthorpe.

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In the euro area, for instance, it has grown by one-third since the eve of the crisis in August 2007, even though interest rates are barely lower now than then.

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But when Italy striker Fabio Quagliarella left Udinese to join Juventus on the eve of the 2009-10 season, former head coach Pasquale Marino opted to field Di Natale, then 31 years old, as a center-forward.

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