Investors are understandably bone-tired after seeing one accounting calamity after another splattered across the front pages.

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After Jeremy Bray's stumps were splattered, solitary slip Yusuf Pathan collected two excellent catches.

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In past seasons, Mr. Giorgetti irreverently splattered giant hearts, thick umbrella striping, and 3-D geometrics on his clothes.

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Of the various mechanics The Unfinished Swan offers, this is the most successful next to the paint-splattered starting areas.

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But once it splattered in a rush of headlines, did it make sense?

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He got facially splattered with baked beans but after an apology and an explanation from Chris he has forgiven him.

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" It also calls to mind Tom Hanks' tobacco-splattered line from A League of Their Own: "It's supposed to be hard.

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The tension abides, with the affection, but like Mr. Heinzerling, you never want to leave the dinner table in their paint-splattered Dumbo loft.

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The next wicket gave the north-east faithful exactly what they wanted to see when Harmison splattered Fidel Edwards' stumps with a fast, straight delivery.

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Since the transcripts are often leaked to the media, even before charges are laid, innocent people can find their most private remarks splattered across the press.

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To be splattered and distorted across the ether by the great Dvorak ( "Microsoft, the government and Karlgaard") is rather like being the subject of a one-eyed Picasso portrait (as Saul Bellow might have put it).

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