Happily for Bush, the only folks in an equally squirmy position were the reporters raising the questions.

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Yes, there are lots of squirmy arms and rolls on the floor, but they're all distinct personal expressions.

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The 9-year-old turned her headlamp toward the dried brown leaves and braved the prickly bushes to pick up the squirmy toad.

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"If it gets into trouble we know exactly which nest to bring it back to, " Nadareski said as he banded one of the squirmy youngsters.

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But the financing market for leveraged buyouts is getting squirmy, the music business itself is harder than ever to value, and with new tenanting prospects in double-dip-recession limbo as an ebullient recovery in office-building investment slows, the tower may become part of the collateral damage caused by the shuddering fall of EMI.

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