Yesterday, the federal election commission went with the new technology and threw aside the old rules.

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She threw the blankets aside and rushed to the window.

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In 1990 Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America's foremost novelists, enraged by a government attempt to nationalise his country's banks, cast aside his pen and threw himself into politics.

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