Numerous other European banks have attempted to break into Wall Street's elite ranks, only to slink away years later.

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I'm about to slink away when Mr St.

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Residents across the region, including farmer Michael Oxner of Bald Knob, Arkansas, have seen snakes slink to higher ground.

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With so many "big" books on the shortlist and well-known favourites like Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro, it was quite exciting to see John Banville slink off with the Man Booker Prize last night.

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At that point I would have been happy to forget the whole thing, and slink off home, but it wasn't to be: A rousing chorus of "Jerusalem" from opera singer Sean Ruane, and we too were pouring across the line.

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Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.

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