Unlike Frey's past heroes, though, he's not a Wall Street hotshot but a paper products sales rep trapped in a dead-end job.

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Selfishly reluctant to pass the torch to the next generation, he's also trapped in a dead marriage, partly of his own doing, and compulsively flirts with much-younger women.

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Five of the dead were trapped inside the sunken SUV.

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That leaves Romney trapped in a policy dead-end.

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Last year, a barn owl was found dead after apparently becoming trapped in a lantern on a farm in Berkeley.

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And dazed and trapped, he was as good as dead.

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"At this stage I don't think we can get any survivors, those who are already trapped, I believe they may be dead now, " local police commander Supt SK Buabeng was quoted as saying by the Joy Online website.

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Sadly, it was found dead in 1988 after it drowned whilst trapped by fishing lines.

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It was found dead in 1988 after it drowned whilst trapped by fishing lines.

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He was initially reported to be injured and trapped under the rubble, but it was later announced by the UN that he was dead.

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