• Each day, they'd open the tubes with the tug of a string, letting the containers tumble into a concrete gully.

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  • For all of Lewinsky's fantasies of a blossoming emotional relationship, a merry tumble into love with "Handsome, " the account portrays the President as a varsity cad.

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  • The military timed its shootdown attempt so that resulting debris would tumble into the atmosphere and not interfere with other satellites, said Christina Rocca, a U.S. diplomat and expert on disarmament.

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  • At the rainforest-shrouded Chishimba Falls on the Luombe River in the Kasama District, three successive falls tumble into one another at a site that is revered as sacred by the Bemba people.

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  • But with most markets where MSFT competes shrinking these days, and investment in those markets doing little to prop up cash flow, MSFT could well tumble into a lousy cash position amazingly quickly.

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  • In the room-sized installation, where the skin-coloured floor, ceiling and matrix of columns are all made of silky Lycra tulle, you stumble, clutch at the soft columns and finally tumble into the squishy floor.

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  • He was all but forgotten when he died, in poverty, in 1840, but, still today, looking at a Friedrich can feel like a sideways tumble into a mental state that you may recognize against your will: hypersensitive, enrapt, and dire.

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  • And cascading bank failures are exactly the thing that will tumble us into a new depression.

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  • The clever thing about Mr Rutan's aircraft is that it can tumble back into the atmosphere and glide down to land without any fancy computerised guidance.

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  • Housekeeping slits open the end of an old pillow, emptying the down filling into a tumble chamber.

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  • He had been caught trying to climb into the tumble dryer on a previous occasion and knew how to operate it, she added.

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  • The authors even identified a universal "tipping point" in the life cycle of new words: Roughly 30 to 50 years after their birth, they either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse.

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  • Directing our eyes up the slope, we see the monastery complex's 12-story tumble of geometry come into focus: the Little Potala, as it is called, after the original in Lhasa, all stepped roofs and cantilevered walls, scaling the crag like a fairy-tale medieval fortress.

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  • The danger for Lockheed Martin is that if orders start to tumble, the F-35 could go into a death spiral.

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  • The actual is sliced, diced and winched forward, only to tumble off time's assembly-line into the great slag-heap of now.

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  • In these deals, Ribotsky invested cash in thinly traded public companies, in return for securities convertible into discounted common shares, often causing the stock price to tumble.

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  • Back in early September, Pandora Media shares took a 22%, two-day tumble after the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was planning to jump into the streaming music business where Pandora has been the dominant player.

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  • But after WorldCom's collapse, many would-be vultures swooped too early, tearing into the discounted bonds of cable and telecoms firms, only to see them tumble further.

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  • The REITs that have seen great share price leaps and raised lots of public equity and corporat debt have seen their share prices tumble, eroding buying power and pushing debt levels up just as the faltering economy bites into operating gains.

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  • For example, if you think REITs are poised to take a tumble and gold is set to rise, you can trade out of your REIT position and into gold in a matter of moments at any time during the trading day.

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  • Murray's crash landing in the ninth game of the third set came shortly after a similarly spectacular tumble by a ballboy, whose foot clipped an advertising awning as he chased a ball, sending him splattering into a photographers box.

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