In a dizzying pirouette, acting for shareholders, he played Christie's against Sotheby's in the 2001 price-fixing scandal.

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To lighten the load, gadgets that can pirouette between different jobs are essential.

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"It was a very clever finish with a sort of pirouette that made it very hard for the goalkeeper, " Hogdson said.

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How did it pirouette from just barely producing 28nm chips in volume to nailing a 14nm node in less than a year?

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Then he pragmatically extended them, calling his pirouette a "substantial victory for middle class families" who would otherwise have suffered a tax increase.

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So long as that could be done without doing permanent damage to relations either with America or within Europe, France could sustain its pirouette on the world stage to some applause.

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Troy, in a wobbly pirouette, laughed out loud.

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