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  • However, as those who bet against dotcom stocks in 1999 discovered, it can be a lonely business waiting for a bubble to pop.

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  • The sanctuary, which is on the site of a former cement factory, plans eventually to get the help of the Kenya Wildlife Service to place Owen with Cleo, a lonely female hippo in a separate enclosure.

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  • Mr. QUAMMEN: We're very far from that, I think the real point is understanding cancer better, understanding the biology of cancer, and that will, I hope, ultimately, make it a less lonely disease and a more treatable one.

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  • We had our, we had each other, we had a sense of appreciation of dialogue and discussion among each other, you can be lonely in a crowd but if you ask the question they give it as clear as I can give it, absolutely just grey.

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  • She also digs up charming incidental anecdotes: a lonely-hearts ad in a Bavarian newspaper brought together the parents of Pope Benedict.

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  • Cheap, lonely, a little bit dirty.

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  • BBC, whose commercial arm snapped up a 75% stake in Lonely Planet, a travel publisher.

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  • Italian actors picked up the best actor and actress categories - Luigi Lo Cascio won for Luce dei miei Occhi (Light of My Eyes), about a lonely young man and his obsession with a single mother.

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  • His funeral pyre, lit under gloomy skies in a lonely corner of his country, resembled a small garbage heap -- a makeshift pile of truck tires, soiled mattresses, a solitary chair and a few other of his meager possessions.

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  • Mr Campbell concludes that it was more probably a lonely time, during which the grocer's daughter made a few contacts as president of the Conservative Association but may have read little and was traumatised by the snobby condescension she met from the progressive young things at Somerville College.

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  • On a large lonely wooden cross on top of a hill in Antarctica, overlooking a route taken to the South Pole, someone inscribed the words "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".

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  • Being a leader of a large company can be a lonely existence and so surrounding yourself with people you know and like is a positive thing.

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  • The details of his life that have emerged so far suggest a lonely, loveless and circumscribed existence: no wife, no close friends, a cheap apartment.

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  • And that's how it plays out, as Mann drinks a lonely Guinness while it's still light out and awkwardly hooks up with a male acquaintance when it's not.

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  • In calm and workaday Lisbon, Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a lonely, low-key, middle-aged social activist, gently pursued by a gentleman artist, finds her elderly neighbor, Aurora (Laura Soveral), a capricious faded beauty, in decline and struggling under the loving care of a home attendant.

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