When the cover was whisked off that afternoon in northern California, there was a collective gasp in room.

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Moore and his boys are trained in the art of helicopter deployment and are soon whisked off to Vietnam.

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But the most irking thing imaginable is, as Meer points out, the purgatory that is the overflow server, where sad saps who no longer fit in their home servers are placed to adventure in a much more lonely space until a spot opens up and you can be whisked off to more crowded environs.

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What is so disturbing about fraud on Wall Street is the notion that a devilish character like Bernie Madoff, who stole from the rich, is whisked off to jail, while those who steal from lower to middle class individuals and families tend to fall into a familiar pattern of getting caught, paying fines, skipping jail time and walking away with bonuses worth millions of dollars.

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No sooner had Thai police arrested Mr Hambali than American agents whisked him off for interrogation.

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So she called 911, and within minutes the paramedics came, gave her an EKG, told her she'd had a heart attack, and whisked her off to the hospital.

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Clad in black sunglasses (though it's 10 o'clock at night), a rumpled Tommy Bahama shirt and a tan blazer--and accompanied by a perfect platinum blonde less than half his age--Leach gets whisked to a coveted table just off the dance floor.

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