Garcia has been especially adept at feathering his own nest with Ugly Duckling's assets.

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Agents (ie, managers) were feathering their own nests rather than serving the interests of their principals (shareholders).

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They were fine, tall, stout matched blacks with some feathering on their lower legs, a mix of some kind.

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Mahmood does for Arafat with a slower ball, the Pakistani batsman feathering a catch to Sutton behind the timbers.

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Meanwhile, disillusioned Ukrainians fear that the new government will be as preoccupied with nest-feathering and back-stabbing as the old one.

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Perhaps I was, in some obscure way, feathering my own nest.

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Third: The media is tarring and feathering Rick Perry, we now see, for agreeing with Nobel laureate Giaever and a host of other prominent scientists.

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Pietersen should have been on his way to the pavilion after making only 15, though, feathering a delivery from Kaneria straight into - and out of - Kamran Akmal's gloves.

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The India skipper edged O'Brien's first ball after the interval just short of Jesse Ryder in the slips before feathering another to Brendon McCullum behind the stumps two balls later.

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Shahid Afridi decided to bring back seamer Mohammad Sami and it paid off instantly when his second delivery resulted in Ross Taylor feathering catch to the keeper and at the half-way mark, New Zealand were precariously placed at 61-4.

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