• When I scanned the QR code for that business, I was given a reward for a free hook-on hat band from their Detroit location.

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  • Whoever came up with the idea that trillions of dollars should be handed over to funds managed by political hacks and government employees--with taxpayers on the hook for any deficits--must have been out of their minds.

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  • No one gets off the hook on this one -- from governments to schools, corporations to nonprofits, all the way down to families sitting around their dinner table.

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  • The Lions did finally get on the scoreboard when O'Gara - on for Hook - banged over a straightforward penalty after 27 minutes, but they continued to struggle until the interval.

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  • Fly-half James Hook converted Wyn Jones' and Thomas' tries, while Treviso belatedly got on the scoreboard through a 30th-minute penalty from Hook's opposite number Andrea Marcato.

    BBC: Treviso 16-36 Ospreys

  • Morkel twice beat Collingwood's outside edge and, in between, Pietersen was dropped by a back-tracking Ntini at mid-on after again top-edging an attempted hook, this time off Nel.

    BBC: Pietersen ton puts England ahead

  • Replays confirmed a no-ball, and England looked well set to get through to stumps without any further drama - until Pietersen, on 36, top-edged a hook off Johnson.

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  • Euro-zone members and the International Monetary Fund would also be on the hook if Greece repudiated its bail-out loans.

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  • The plan would transition Medicare from a defined-benefit system, in which the government is on the hook for whatever services seniors desire, to a defined-contribution system, in which the government pays out a dollar amount for health services, growing with inflation, incentivizing all participants in the system to prioritize health spending to those services that are most valuable.

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  • And Citi is on the hook for billions-worth of loans for leveraged buyouts.

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  • He lines up in a reshaped back division that sees James Hook at full-back, Morgan Stoddart on the other wing and fit-again Jamie Roberts forging a midfield partnership with Jonathan Davies.

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  • The Ospreys' 26-cap fly-half Hook, who took a bang to the head in training on Monday, has no full-back experience at the highest level.

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  • Julian, who has autism, was goose-stepping and counting every coat hook on the wall aloud.

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  • Rather than charging top euro for delicious content, pay-TV distributors are trying to hook Germans on technology.

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  • He's pretty special when you could throw cutter, sinker, four-seam, hook, changeup, and on both sides of the plate.

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  • Hook is primed for centre or full-back on Wales' summer tour to north America at the end of a frustrating season for him and the misfiring Ospreys.

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  • In modern times, the hook is becoming less important as commercial fishing ventures rely more and more upon massive nets, although certain industrial fishing techniques--such as longline fishing--still depend on the humble hook.

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  • There were three other mirrors in the house: the mirror over the sink in the upstairs bathroom, the mirror over the sink in the downstairs half bath, and the small circular mirror with a wooden handle that hung on a hook beside the upstairs-bathroom window.

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  • The administration figures that Alaska is just enough to get the Democrats off the hook on the issue of defending America--and that the Russians will see an Alaska defense as so weak that they might agree to allow it by mildly amending the ABM treaty.

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  • Connacht captain John Muldoon was sin-binned on his 100th cap for Hook's third penalty before the break.

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  • Earlier, when Aussie debutant Phillip Hughes fell with just 18 runs added to his overnight century and Neil Dexter edged a mis-hook to slip to depart for 72, Middlesex looked as if they might even be forced to follow-on as Garnett Kruger bowled Glamorgan into the ascendancy.

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  • Although those figures have likely changed as the bill has been modified, the message is the same: The government-sponsored mortgage buyers would be on the hook for a hefty sum of money.

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  • Mr Autor and Mark Duggan of the University of Maryland propose emulating the Dutch, who have made disability insurance less of a one-way street by putting employers on the hook for the first few years' payments.

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  • Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.

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  • SageCrest is still on the hook for much of its art loans--5% or so of its total assets.

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  • Nikki Walker and James Hook were on hand to feed Parker and two percussive hand-offs later the Wales centre was over for the first try of the night.

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  • There is indeed no two-year contract, but if you should stop your service with T-Mobile, you're still on the hook for the rest of the value of that phone.

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  • If they can trace the compulsion to specific ingredients such as fat or high-fructose corn syrup, they might have the evidentiary equivalent of nicotine--a substance manufacturers may have manipulated to hook their customers on food.

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  • But Hook went on to keep his head and tremendously kicked a 52-metre penalty.

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  • Warwick and James Hook kicked early penalties and the Munster fly-half struck another score on 63 minutes.

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