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Yet the consumer-price index separately out Friday could yet be the headline-grabber.
Tea Leaves Hard to Read on China's Growth Tom Orlik 2011
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Not a headline-grabber, not someone out to get her name put on buildings, but the kind of person who will stand beside you through thick and thin.
Don C. Reed: Boxer vs. Fiorina: Friends and Foes of Stem Cell Research and the Disability Community Don C. Reed 2010
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Johnson was a typical Labour headline-grabber and thought it would look tough to sack Nutt, who went off with his more robust colleagues to found an "independent scientific committee on drugs".
Britain's drugs hypocrisy is a giant self-inflicted wound Simon Jenkins 2010
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Britney Spears isn't the only headline-grabber who hit it big in the 90s to angle for a comeback this fall: Nearly a decade-and-a-half after the last big term limits push fell short, there's a new congressional proposal to cap the amount of time lawmakers can serve - giving US Term Limits President Philip Blumel new hope the idea's proponents may be able to put an end to the age of the career politician.
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But the NRA endorsement is likely the headline-grabber of the day, due to the state's evolving relationship with firearms and the NRA's change-of-heart about the candidate it once supported.
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Mervyn King's vision of the "sober" decade in prospect for Britain was designed to be the headline-grabber.
Sobering thoughts from Mervyn King Nils Pratley 2010
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The sources next tipdelivers a second headline-grabber of a story for Chris, and suddenly his career is looking a lot more like his dads.
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The headline-grabber is a recommendation that the ICC appoint a chairman, chosen on merit, with the presidency becoming an ambassadorial role.
A Woolf at Cricket Chiefs' Door Richard Lord 2012
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Granted, that "socialist" result is a headline-grabber, and it's the logical product of a year-long propaganda campaign on the right.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Obama's Vegas Blueprint: Create Jobs, Fight Banks, and Help Real Businesses 2010
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The headline-grabber statement was probably Greenspan's comment that "I was right 70% of the time and wrong 30% of the time," which is in his estimation a good performance.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: In the Dark: A Good Prosecutor Would've Pinned Greenspan Down 2010
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