We were watching the Red Sox as we were flying home -- a nail-biter.

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We turn now to politics, where the presidential campaign, like Wall Street's current rollercoaster, has become a nail biter.

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Especially now, with Nasdaq at nail-biter heights and, more worrisome yet, with Greenspan's guns trained on stocks?

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Working in Utah County, most of my colleagues are BYU fans, excited at their nail-biter comeback the other night against Iona.

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Unlike the emerging Ankle Biter Economy, the industrial economy had massive barriers to entry and a wide variety of characteristics and factors that consistently rewarded bigness and institutionalized stability.

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He got into NCAA basketball prognosticating after watching his team, Georgia Tech, lose a nail-biter in 2002 when Tennessee hit a shot at the buzzer from half court.

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Each year, it was a down-to-the-wire, nail-biter speech.

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And this one looked like a potential biter.

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For example, a young nail-biter whose mother told her that the habit was unhygienic and might pose a health risk decided to examine whether more bacteria were removed during hand washing with soap or hand sanitizer.

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Its issues of historical accuracy aside (and conceded from the start by Affleck and others), the movie's a crisp little nail-biter that easily sells itself to the international marketplace, which remains the final frontier for American commercial cinema.

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