"We've had enough of losing money and we look forward to having the cash register start ringing, " said Meyer, who took over the top job at AMD in July from Hector Ruiz.

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They've had a ringing endorsement from Fifa President Sepp Blatter who says they will not be banned.

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There has never been a player in the history of the game who has performed better with the boos of their own fans ringing in their ears and by all accounts Eboue was inconsolable in the dressing room after the game.

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Carter, who was named man of the match, ended the Test with jeers ringing in his ears after a high tackle on Martin Roberts which could land him in further trouble.

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She will play Corden's mother in the series about two lowly office workers who become caught up in a criminal conspiracy after one of them discovers a ringing phone at the scene of a major car crash.

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"The phone is ringing all the time, " said Czarnek's mother, Victoria, who signed up for the university's mobile alert system.

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Those opposed to METI argue that broadcasting signals into space announcing the location of Earth is tantamount to ringing a dinner gong for any carnivorous, colonising or anti-social aliens who might be listening.

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Once British politicians started questioning Ofcom, the communications regulator, about its powers to disqualify media owners who were not "fit and proper persons" to own a television license, alarm bells would have started ringing at News Corp. headquarters.

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But the folks who are actually going to be on the air for another hour weren't able to give the move a ringing endorsement.

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"It starts ringing and it becomes an instant reminder that this person is human, that they have friends and family who care, " he said.

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