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He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.
But further thought brings the shuddery visions of a governor's race being run in the next Legislature, the spectre of big spending programs, the ooze of mudslinging before the campaign should even begin.
Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.
A big arm swing is also usually not advised in badminton because bigger swings make it more difficult to recover for the next shot in fast exchanges.
The next big growth occurred with the advent of World War II, when large numbers of people moved to the Bay Area to work in the many war industries, such as the immense Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond.
Freelance writers and authors who aspire to be the next Stephen King and Dan Brown are known to submit manuscripts of their latest literary creations hoping for their big break are only to be bombarded with numerous rejection letters from major publishing houses.
Sullivan's failure to scoop the TV industry with Presley made him determined to get the next big sensation first.
* Mary Midgley ( 2001 ), Gaia: the next big idea
With Bauhaus flying in on similar wings could it be the next big thing ?".
Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
In the 1830s, John Jacob Astor foresaw that the next big boom would be the build-up of New York, which would soon emerge as one of the world ’ s greatest cities.
Dixit's next big performance came in Umesh Mehra's hit Mujrim and Aziz Sejawal's directed movie Ilaaka in both movies Dixit continued against super dancer and fiter hero Mithun Chakraborthy.
The small blind is placed by the player to the left of the dealer button and the big blind is then posted by the next player to the left.
Peckinpah was next signed to direct The Cincinnati Kid, a gambling drama about a young prodigy who takes on an old master during a big New Orleans poker match.
Meanwhile, the game was a chance for the Cowboys to lose their nickname of " next year's champions " and their reputation of " not being able to win the big games ".
The Cowboys entered the season still having the reputation of " not being able to win the big games " and " next year's champion ".
A January 2005 Newsweek article suggested that Internet telephony may be " the next big thing.
After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.
He has four close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man ; Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith, who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life ; Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for " the next big thing "; and Vizeen Nurney, a 20-something lounge singer who, despite her rebellious image, has an optimistic and sympathetic nature.
When she falls because of the pain she notices that she was on the row 5 of the store so she makes a big effort to move to the next row, just in this moment, Forney ( who watched her go into the store at closing time ) jumps through a plate-glass window and helps deliver her baby.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.
While praising the film's first two hours as " compelling ", the Toronto Star remarked, " But when Cameron takes the adventure to the next step, deep into the heart of fantasy, it all becomes one great big deja boo.
The next big occurrence in fishing rods was the introduction of the fiberglass rod in the 1940s and were developed by Robert Gayle and a Mr. Mcguire.
The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

next and champion
If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.
1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the semifinals and defeated then-four-time champion Pete Sampras the next day in straight sets.
In the next seven weeks the Saints beat talented teams such as the eventual Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants, Detroit Lions, and Atlanta Falcons, bringing their season record to 12-3.
Aside from the historical significance of these events, they also carry larger prize funds than any other tour event and are worth double the number of ranking points to the champion than in the next echelon of tournaments, the Masters 1000 ( men ) and Premier events ( women ).
The winner is then considered the champion for the next four years until the next World Cup.
If the champion failed to start the car, it was not eliminated from the round, but was available again if the champion returned the next day.
The contestant with the highest money total at the end of the game is the champion, keeps his or her earnings and returns on the next show.
He went on to score a podium finish fifteen seconds behind his triple world champion team-mate during the next weekend at Suzuka, his first career podium.
Their next Grand Slam meeting was at the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 1993, where Agassi was the defending champion and Sampras was the newly minted world number 1.
The Clippers won 12 of their next 14 games, including road wins over the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Western-Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder, clinching only their fifth playoff birth since their 1976 conference semi-finals loss to the Boston Celtics ( the last time they made the playoffs as the Buffalo Braves ) before a dominating home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 16, 2012.
" The Explosive Thin Man " suffered an unavenged first round TKO loss in his 1968 professional debut, but then won 36 of his next 38 bouts, which then led him to a world Featherweight championship bout against experienced WBA champion Ernesto Marcel of Panama in Panama.
In his next bout, he defeated former champion Juan Laporte by a twelve round unanimous decision.
In his next bout, Chavez defeated three-time champion Tony Lopez.
In his next bout, Chávez defeated former champion Joey Gamache in his 100th career bout.
From 1884 through 1911, the tournament used a challenge system whereby the defending champion automatically qualified for the next year's final in which he would play the winner of the all-comers tournament.
Syrian born Mustafa Hamsho, who won his shot in an eliminator with Wilfredo Benitez and would later defeat future world champion Bobby Czyz, became Hagler's next challenger, put up a lot of resistance but was finally beaten in 11 tough rounds.
His next fight made him a two time world champion.
The Cardinals won their next home game, defeating the defending Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins 30-21.
In order to gain respectability, the WBO next elected former world light heavyweight champion José Torres of Ponce, Puerto Rico, as its president.
Serrano's next fight was against world champion Deirdre Gogarty.
He kept trying mightily as he could to regain his former condition as a world champion and even retained his British middleweight title a few times in his next ten fights, but he lost two of them to obscure opponents.

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