The experience ended unhappily, except for the great addition it made to the canon of city-based kiss-off songs (see above).

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The Yahoo kiss-off came ahead of President Hollande's announcement Monday of capital-gains tax breaks, special visas for foreign entrepreneurs and other measures designed to promote investment.

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"Go Your Own Way" was Buckingham's anguished kiss-off to Nicks.

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In 2011, she's still young enough to pull off gleefully bratty kiss-offs like ''Einstein, '' on which she does the math for a no-good boyfriend: ''Dumb plus dumb equals you.

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That weekend, Mr. Saied ran into Sheik Qaradawi as the luminary emerged from a crowded hotel elevator and attempted to fend off people trying to kiss his hand.

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They wanted to have one more drink, one more kiss from the barmaid, and be off for Paris.

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"There are a lot of candidates who get completely run down, and they have to take a week off - and that's the kiss of death, " says Richard Ben Cramer, author of What it Takes: The Way to the White House.

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Somewhat out of context, Mini brought in the original KISS with four band-personalized vehicles (below) to be auctioned off for charity.

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That same year saw her first on-screen kiss with Robert Stack and the news bumped war headlines off daily papers.

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"Rodin is a great sculptor, " he notes, before wandering off into a musing litany of works he owns: " 'The Kiss, ' 'The Thinker, ' 'The Shades, ' 'Eve, ' " he pauses.

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