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You either go into a shell or you puff your chest out, take it on the chin and get on with it.
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When she speaks, she says she literally runs of out puff after a few minutes and needs to take a moment to recover with a few deep breaths.
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Besides, the baroness herself ran out of puff after her industrial privatisations: she never seriously tried to prise the welfare state out of public hands, and only just succeeded in slowing the growth of overall state spending.
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The government used to be keen on overhauling education but it has run out of puff.
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Chinese tour boats take you past Sinuiju's decaying factories whose smokestacks, locals say, haven't let out a puff of smoke in years.
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The extravagantly far-right demagogue, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has run out of puff.
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The older manappeared to be out of puff.
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The fight against corruption is also out of puff: it was made clear this week that self-exiled Bettino Craxi, a former prime minister hitherto wanted on several charges, would face none if he came home.
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You simply sweep your whole pile of chips into old-economy stocks, then puff on a cigar and wait out the coming convergence of valuations.
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However, I can't encourage you enough to search out an all-butter puff pastry at a local specialty store.
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Native American-made pipe tomahawks from the 19th and early 20th centuries are supreme examples of all-in-one technology: The metal tomahawk blade was topped with a neat little tobacco bowl, and the wooden handle was hollowed out so the warrior could puff when he wasn't whacking someone.
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For instance Bill Gates, who one would assume has no reason to puff up his Twitter status has, according to StatusPeople, 41% fake and 38% inactive users out of his total 8 million followers.
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