Honda officials say half-jokingly they're trying not to sell them until a cost-competitive Fit can be built in Mexico beginning in 2014.

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Viktor Chernomyrdin, the new Russian ambassador to Ukraine (and a former prime minister), is referred to, only half-jokingly, as Mr Putin's viceroy in Kiev.

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"You could say that Uruk is to blame for bureaucracy, " Mr. Wartke said half-jokingly when referring to the city's penchant for validating and recording goods.

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Half-jokingly, Habib says that he imagines everyone still looks like Cyndi Lauper and Boy George celebrities from the last time he was able to see.

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The system starts with your choice of the professional Scarlet or "master professional" EPIC brains which can then be bunged into about 2, 251, 799, 813, 685, 248 possible camera configurations, RED only half-jokingly chides.

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"I'm still on message, " he said, half-jokingly, of course.

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During a private reception at Pendleton, Mr. Schwarzenegger marveled when marines showed him a 14-ton armored vehicle the size of a small suburban home, noting half-jokingly that he'd like one for his personal use.

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin said only half-jokingly back in 2002 that his company aimed to create the equivalent of the intelligent computer HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but without the bug that resulted in it, you know, killing people.

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