Rizzi was stuck, unable to move, taking in gulps of smoke, feeling the gaseous mix burn his lungs.

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Instead of fighting the campaign against Big Gulps, the soft drink industry should be looking for the next big opportunity.

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Sadly, this is a mess, with stranded stars, dialogue composed of gulps and stutters, and laughs expiring in the empty air.

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In the classroom next door, 21-year-old Dechen Dema gulps hard as her tutor, Dawa Tshering, presents the artwork she must attempt to replicate.

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Now he talks fluently with occasional gulps to catch his breath.

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Bloomberg's insistence on dictating consumer choices has a more direct connection to an assumption that government should control our access to health care than obesity has to a couple of Big Gulps.

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It says much for the tenor of Russian politics that this and other confusions of the moment were swallowed with barely a murmur of disquiet by the financial markets and with no more than a few uneasy gulps by international opinion.

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