Furthermore, most Yemenis knock off work at 2pm, abandoning their afternoons to chewing.

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"It's a source of marriage breakdown, of stress, of people being ill, being off work - the knock-on effect of people wrestling with unmanageable debt in their lives can be massive, " he says.

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"Knock-off shows that are lame imitations usually don't work, while innovation does, " Realityblurred.com's Andy Dehnart wrote in an e-mail.

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Federal prosecutors gave Sidley Austin a pass because, they said, most of Ruble's illicit work was done pre-merger and because post-merger he was told to knock it off but didn't and kept his activities hidden.

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During his second stint at Atari, in 1975, Jobs worked on a "Pong" knock-off called "Breakout" with the help of his longtime friend Wozniak, who did most of the engineering work on the video game, even though he wasn't being paid by Atari.

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