The Harries sensibly put two fingers up, and opposition politicians are now calling for lower taxes at home instead.

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Over the next four decades, teddy boys, bikers, mods, rockers, hippies, punks, ravers and grungers put two pubescent fingers up at authority in their own fashion and took delight in watching the staid grown-ups flinch and frown.

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For example, rotating with two fingers turns the volume up or down, and a single-finger swipe changes channels.

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And in so doing, as they said in Lufkin, he had put up two fingers to the devil and at least some of his works.

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The Moroccan went clear in the final 30 metres and even had the luxury of easing up before raising two fingers, one for each of his Athens triumphs, as he crossed.

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He finally broke down and propped his left elbow up on the desk with two fingers pressed together, and pretended to smoke.

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Both parties have to register their fingerprints using a biometric scanner that's plugged into the washing machine, which will only work if it scans a different finger than the one used before (you could also trick the machine and use two of your own fingers when you first set things up, but you'd only be fooling yourself right?).

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But zinc fingers, because of their precision, could give Dow a significant leg up by cutting a year or two off the six to eight years it now takes to develop a modified plant and get it past regulators.

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