From the clouds, the little girl's spirit watched her family escape into the Laotian jungle, run around in circles for four years, and then surface on the banks of the Mekong River in Thailand starving survivors.

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He doesn't run around in big circles with a big footprint.

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There are obviously smart folks on the right and many conservatives who, no doubt, could run circles around me in terms of technical sophistication.

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Like Nintendo, the new generation of small fabless firms capitalise on some special skill (designing cheap but powerful computers in Akia's case) and then use their compactness to run circles around the heavyweights.

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