With his unfettered wavy white curls and unshaven jowls he fittingly resembles a sea captain off-duty.

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As she struggled on, other consumers--or one other consumer, anyway--continued to fall under the spell of the spoon-thrusting sea captain.

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Jean-Yves Delanne, who is known by the nickname Captain Haddock for his salty sea-dog appearance, said he thought justice had been done.

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Voters wanted a change, they blamed the socialists for Romania's corruption, and they saw the plain-spoken Mr Basescu, a former sea captain and mayor of Bucharest, as a rare honest man.

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When De Sole left, his longtime Italian employees at Gucci showed their devotion with a solid-silver statuette featuring him as a fearless sea captain steering a wheel made of Gucci 'G's.

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He wants these bond-buying programs to bail out every foundering captain on the sea.

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Captain PES Finney, who was based in Rhos-on-Sea, was told the double agents would travel by car, under armed escort, and would need accommodation.

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