• He's a big guy, he stood up and -- he stood up, I thought, man, that's a big guy, I better call on him. (Laughter.) Say you're big, too -- I agree. (Laughter.) Don't worry, I'm not saying you're not big. (Laughter.) All right, go ahead.

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  • And those investments include -- and he brought this up in Colorado -- the production tax credit, the wind energy tax credit that has broad bipartisan support in states like Colorado and Iowa, that is essential to 5, 000 jobs in Colorado.

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  • He is now concentrating on relatively non-controversial projects such as a city-wide clean-up (though he tactlessly, and unsuccessfully, asked the workers to collect the rubbish after hours without charging overtime).

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  • Born last December, the bear ignited a heated debate about hand-rearing after his mother rejected him and he was brought up and bottle-fed by Mr Doerflein.

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  • He came to her house, and armed with a modem, he set up an e-mail account and hooked her up to the university's computer system.

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  • He is an all-round striker - he can hold the ball up well, he is strong and he has a good touch - but the thing that stands out is his finishing.

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  • Bronx-born and Brooklyn-bred, he grew up in a federal housing project in the blue-collar East New York neighborhood and still betrays a Brooklyn accent.

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  • Mr Burnham argued that recent cuts to council budgets - of which social care makes up about 40%, he said - had driven up care costs and caused some local authorities to restrict services.

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  • Harvey said he wasn't happy with the number of balls he threw in his last outing - when he gave up a run and three hits in 2 2-3 innings - so he focused on throwing more strikes Thursday and relying on some help from his teammates.

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  • In midfield, Charlton's Nicky Bailey did as much as he could to try to get them promoted - ultimately in vain - but he never gave up and is a player you'd want on your side.

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  • He also said he had been given the position of immigration minister "to change perceptions" and raise the profile of the new points-based system - which he said was "tougher" and the biggest shake-up of immigration policy in 45 years.

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  • He scored on an up-and-under, a pull-up jumper and got to the foul line to get the Knicks back in the game.

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  • He needed a shaking-up, and he got one.

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  • With the help from the Grameen Foundation and a not-for-profit called OpenMind he staffed up a small call-center where mobile phone owners can call up and ask about weather, history, science, whatever they want.

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  • He believes this sort of approach will have far wider appeal than today's windows and mouse-based systems, and he has founded a start-up, called Perceptive Pixel, to commercialise the technology.

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  • Usually I do the all-night shift (one of our three kids is always up) and he does the super early wake-up-in-the-morning-with-the-baby shift.

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  • The better news for the prime minister, however, was the reaction he got from his backbenchers - and even Gordon Brown - when he defended his top up fees about-face.

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  • Filatov says he will continue to invest in art as long as his business -- which he built up in the 1990s and now straddles shipping, ports and infrastructure -- allows.

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  • Italy have named Kristopher Burton at fly-half, and he will line up alongside Benetton Treviso team-mate Edoardo Gori, who wins his third cap at scrum-half.

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  • As Brazil's caretaker president in 1992-94, he backed the inflation-beating (and election-winning) plan drawn up by Mr Cardoso as his finance minister, and he has subsequently felt spurned.

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  • He is keen to push ahead with even more esoteric products such as risk management and back-up financing, he says, and wants to expand into outsourcing.

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  • The psychiatrist from Talbot Green, near Llantrisant, had found two other historical artefacts during the two-and-a-half years since he took up the hobby, but this was the first one of value he had unearthed within Wales.

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  • So when my brother actually--because he was doing most of the work by himself, and I would think he was using a rammer--he woke up one Monday to go and finish the work before the police officers come again.

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  • He'll stop an intern struggling through a pile of carrots to show him how to hold his knife, he'll stick a spoon in a braise and give the cook a thumbs-up, he'll offer advice and jokes, whatever the situation demands.

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  • It was only two months ago when Snedeker was regarded the hottest player in golf when in three straight weeks he was runner-up to Woods, runner-up to Phil Mickelson and then won at Pebble Beach.

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  • The second set went with serve until a Srichaphan error put Henman 5-4 up and he sealed his 6-3 6-4 win with an ace.

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  • He is 41 and feels the muffin tops a-piling up, so he buys a running machine and gives up drink and puddings.

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  • Ex-Rangers striker Charlie Miller came on at half-time and he set up Migen Memelli's winning goal on 68 minutes.

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  • To keep up with demand, he had to come up with a new and non-surgical solution which he could train staff in the country to perform as well.

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  • Jones admitted the fight would be his last as a light-heavyweight and that he was hoping to line up just one more fight - with Mike Tyson.

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