Scriptwriters insist on depicting reporters as unscrupulous, hard-bitten hacks who'd sooner sell their granny than miss out on a scoop. |
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They discovered the bar crammed full of newspaper hacks and TV presenters, tapping away at laptops and writing in notepads. |
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The dozen-or-so empty seats in the Media Centre could well have belonged to the hacks who suffer from arachnophobia. |
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While big budget often means lousy script and too many hacks spending the money, low-budget doesn't automatically mean quality. |
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Editorial and headline writers and the hacks at the television news outlets have no time for such contradictions. |
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Verily, we must be living in a golden age of journalism if the number of prize-winning rags and hacks is anything to go by. |
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And vote counters should be nonpartisan public servants, not secretive corporations or party hacks. |
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I was friendly with the Student Union hacks and lots of people in the debating society and law. |
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He's going to bring in a whole new batch of people rather than these political hacks who've destroyed our economy. |
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Lisa, you don't need the money and you certainly could find better ways to spend it than hiring unoriginal hacks with whom to collaborate. |
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I too think I understand them, and I think they are quacks, hacks, and lying charlatans motivated solely by greed. |
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As potent, according to both Lib Dems and Labour hacks, were the ultra local issues. |
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We road-tested the ice cream on various office hacks and it went down a storm. |
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And as Norm points out, you know, no one can accuse these people of being hacks. |
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This is what you get when you loan your hard-won credibility to hacks and charlatans. |
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Following the awards ceremony, most of the hacks gathered at the bar for further lubrication. |
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The story fed by his enemies in the Agency is that dedicated career intelligence officers have been replaced by Capitol Hill hacks. |
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Yes, some hacks under LulzSec were done for the lulz, but there are lessons learned from them all. |
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Meanwhile US hacks have convinced themselves that they're involved in a profession rather than a craft. |
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Everything from social engineering to fun explosives to Coke machine hacks can be found there. |
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Sadly, the cronies and party hacks who now fill his Cabinet and backroom offices fall some way short of that ideal. |
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The stables catered for hacks, hunters, carriage horses and carriages and the Georgian quadrangle was established as the ideal pattern. |
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They are quite often sent off on loan for someone to use as hacks or show jump them. |
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English breeders are turning their attention chiefly to hacks, hunters and heavy draft horses. |
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As to who of the above appeared on the sacred gallops on bicycles, who on hacks and who in motors, we can only surmise. |
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Lessons continued in her 21-horse centre, but the country hacks, popular with tourists, have stopped, bringing a massive loss of business. |
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At the weekend, he goes out and hacks savagely at the undergrowth of the garden. |
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I mean, he's the very most hackiest of the hacks, but he's also the child of two serious conservative intellectuals. |
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Oh well, they're both just the prime minister's hacks, recipients of his favours, obeyers of his orders. |
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The audience of hardbitten hacks and New Labour apparatchiks dissolved in laughter. |
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Polls tell us that we think they are out-of-touch, careerists, lying party hacks. |
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The result is that anyone who hacks into the database does not see the grade of any individual student. |
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Ten years ago, our nation's two leading rock critics declared the premier band of the era to be nothing but indolent hacks. |
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The hacks said Mrs Mungo's idea of Parma ham on ciabatta was much preferable to the usual bacon rolls. |
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Three big hacks later he had crossed the line at the other end to score what turned out to be the clincher. |
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To those hacks like me who find life littered, as it were, with cock-ups rather than conspiracies, this is rather more plausible. |
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During practice the team took a plethora of fungoes and got plenty of hacks, which prepared them for their three scrimmages. |
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I rather think he was hoping to be able to foil their wicked searches with cunning legal hacks and so on. |
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Barry, are you the office dogsbody who ends up doing the rubbish jobs the other hacks can't be bothered with? |
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Were all these hacks so low on the totem pole that they were unable to turn down the assignment? |
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The partisian hacks on both sides of the aisle are so blinded that they don't see this freight train of debt coming downing down the tracks. |
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Consuming an inordinate amount of bevvy has always been one of the qualities that makes hacks so irresistible to you fascinated readers. |
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I know few jobbing hacks in London who were keen on this particular assignment. |
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It will also deploy a Wi-Fi network to keep assorted hacks and photographers in touch. |
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Nothing cossets these hacks like the conviction that happy people aren't happy. |
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The editor is noted for addressing hacks at their end-of-term bash in a speech widely noted for its spectacular woefulness. |
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But actual nail-biting tension is something of a lost art among the newest members of Hollywood's hacks. |
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In slagging off the hacks in general, and Nicholas Witchell of the BBC in particular, His Royal Highness has committed an unpardonable sin. |
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The paid hacks are not nearly satisfied with making a living as mouthpieces of suspect leaders. |
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Private Aye predicts a photo opportunity and there may even be an interview granted to puffing hacks when he reaches the summit. |
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Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness. |
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To illustrate this point, assembled hacks would be encouraged to try new things, and would thus experience this neophobia first hand. |
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The rest of the time, it's the result of under-paid hacks looking for the exclusive story that might just up their cheque for the month. |
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Without such an advisor, of course, the bench could potentially become crowded with no-account Liberal hacks of no discernible talent or skill. |
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It is still unfolding, even as hacks and ex-advisers rush to sum up or cash in. |
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But what makes the piece so powerful is that he performs it with a dangerous charm flashing smiles of complicity at the neutered hacks. |
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The play was a little chippy, with what looked like Pippen taking some strong hacks at Celtics players. |
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Woeful defending from Niclas Alexandersson almost lets Rooney in, but Olof Mellberg hacks the ball over the bar to concede a corner. |
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Kuffour chases him, similarly ignorant of the referee's assistant, and hacks him down. |
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With Farfan bearing down on him, Dida rushes to the edge of his area and hacks the ball clear. |
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The red tops, as we hacks warmly refer to the tabloids, bravely sallied forth against all restrictions European, bureaucratic or otherwise. |
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Meanwhile, a huddle of hacks tried to write down his thoughts in the downpour. |
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And there were always enough hacks about to swallow and regurgitate the disinformation they were fed daily. |
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Cabrera sat down in between prodigious hacks in the batting-practice cage and said he had a lot to learn. |
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Caden's red practice jersey matches those of the players taking hacks in the batting cage, hours before a game against the Padres. |
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So, Jude chopped it down with only a few hacks from his hatchet and he and Josie carried it home. |
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It might be more than fair to wonder where the points are going to come from when so many bumps and hacks aren't whistled. |
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Both share Lord Black's opinion that hacks are a shiftless lot of ignorant and opinionated deadbeats and the fewer the better. |
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The firm is helping federal special agents to search the internet for any evidence that may led the FBI to the people behind the hacks. |
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We can now overclock video cards with registry hacks, and software such as Powerstrip. |
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The best way to keep sites simple is to use the most efficient way of coding an effect, avoiding both CSS hacks and JavaScript objects. |
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We tend to be very suspicious of the paid hacks, the yeasayers and naysayers who generally act like a bunch of blackbirds on a telephone wire. |
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Seems that the upgraded firmware, hacks, and possibly GTA are the only major factors getting any real attention. |
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In the early years, designers used tricks like animated GIFs and table hacks in clever, interesting and horrible ways. |
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No, both the Labor and Liberal Parties have always used their patronage system to sometimes stack the board with party political hacks. |
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Technically, both were easily customizable hacks built on open-source software and generic hardware. |
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Not all of the techniques will work cross-browser without some CSS hacks, and some of the hacks will cause your code to be invalid. |
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This is one of the most useful sites on the net in my opinion, offering good life hacks for better use of your time and your technology. |
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Linksys, now owned by Cisco, not only doesn't mind your hacking the box, they are including some of those hacks in their revised firmware. |
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The economy models make excellent alternatives to keyboard hacks, providing the functionality of a keyboard hack with less effort involved. |
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If someone hacks me off now I have to tell them, because resentment leads to anxiety which leads to depression. |
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Well, there was a whole heap of hacks and they were hacked off for a whole heap of reasons. |
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He cites the eminence and experience of the writers, showing that they are not mere hacks but people with a reputation to maintain. |
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It's an important issue for us women, and for a man, any man, to feel uncomfortable about her discussing it hacks her off. |
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A handful of idealistic hacks questioned the journalistic ethics of accepting freebies, but they no longer work at the paper. |
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Once this is done, with appropriate hacks for Internet Explorer, vertical centering is achieved. |
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Meanwhile, literary hacks and Grub Street writers produced popular pot boilers for the masses. |
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Their slow-burning songs bear enough resemblance to Cave to have music journalists and PR hacks throwing around big nice words. |
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It was an era before distrust, cynicism, agents, and chequebook journalism permanently soured the relationship between footballers and hacks. |
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The article and accompanying cartoon were projected on a screen in front of a room of hacks and sub-editors, as the master dissected it. |
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It's become clear that Web page authors must move beyond the current grab bag of hacks and workarounds and learn to write compliant and efficient markup. |
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I'd already drafted a bitter, bilious, bombastic broadside against the right-wing hacks on the Republican Court. |
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All I heard were some anonymous weasel words written by a bunch of corporate hacks who realize they can no longer defend or obscure one of their more egregious lies. |
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The purity of these wines can be lost, or if you prefer diluted, in a blend, which is why most wine hacks like varietal whites, but drink blended reds. |
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On the most politically charged issues, like crime and welfare reform, hacks thought wonks were from Pluto and wonks thought hacks were from Uranus. |
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We run chromexperiments.com, we create a lot of demo hacks, art projects, and other things. |
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In fact, if he means to keep it up, newspapers may want to send a mixed party of philosophers and wranglers, instead of complaisant hacks, to his next party conference. |
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I imagine for a week or two I'll carry around a stack of index cards bound with a bulldog clip, and read obsessively looking for the latest life hacks. |
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One of his favorite hacks is to put on the fluorescent vest of a maintenance worker. |
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In fact, establishing anything concrete at all is proving surprisingly difficult, even for hacks of the quality of the Evening Press's own rumour-monger. |
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Unfortunately, you tend to pepper it with the best intentions but you deal with a lot of ham-fisted hacks. |
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The school campaigners saw that this was dominated by a few senior hacks, time-servers who have earned their recently doubled expenses through loyal voting records. |
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There were women in various stages of undress, aged hacks bellowing out nationalist folk songs, several figures slumped in corners and enough booze to float a battleship. |
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In the media center, the hacks who had anointed Hillary took it personally. |
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Given the zeal with which he attacked the curling motorkhana course, you'd think it was a serious competition rather than a fun contest against a handful of hacks. |
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And it is hard to imagine big players like the Poles not wanting to showcase Warsaw or Krakow and ply visiting hacks with free slivovitz and customised briefcases. |
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It is always immensely humbling for we hacks to be in the presence of the Chancellor, given his facility for talking expertly about, apparently, everything under the sun. |
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They hurl themselves around in hedonistic spasms, a gangly sprawl of boots, limbs and hair, clad in more skin-tight black than a roomful of rock hacks. |
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The way they're both playing tonight there's only ever going to be one winner of that contest, and the Liverpool centre-half hacks the ball clear. |
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I hope his girlfriend breaks up with him today, his dog runs away and someone hacks into his AOL account and uses it to send threatening emails to the president. |
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At the moment, banks and building societies usually cover the costs of crime, and will refund any losses if someone clones your credit card or hacks into your online account. |
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As some of you may know, the source code was leaked before launch, so Valve is re-writing portions of it to address the potential problems of front-end hacks. |
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The hacks are getting very huffy about still being banned from the bar. |
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Keyboard hacks can be an extremely low-cost way to go, and can either be fun or infuriating to build depending on your temperament and soldering skill. |
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We geeks who buy the latest and greatest will often gleefully trade work-a-rounds, hacks, or other tidbits of information needed to make things work. |
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I had no business bidding anyway and it's better I lost, but the winner, a woman with money who's cornered the memorabilia market, hacks me off all the same. |
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As you will sure agree, what follows is some of the most illuminating journalism since those two hacks at the Washington Post brought Watergate down on Nixon. |
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But is her secret, as some rivals are sniffily suggesting, simply to have let tabloid newspaper hacks loose in the more respectful world of magazines? |
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Whether these journalists are hacks or heroes is not the issue. |
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When his company probes management structures, exposing the fact that bosses are party hacks or people appointed because of connections, the clients often balk. |
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A lot of people see you as talentless hacks, ripping off the Ramones. |
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The fact that such a meeting will enable people to concentrate on issues without the party political hacks breathing down their necks is sufficient reason, I'd suggest! |
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Wandering through the Conference Hotel late at night, one could not move for clearly affluent young people in suits and lean and hungry aspiring hacks. |
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Jigging amongst a bevy of beautiful hackettes and not so gorgeous hacks, George was able to shimmy and twist so that his head was level with most other folk's ankles. |
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Every year, since it started, British hacks have had a choice of charabancs and chemin-de-fers to take them to the gruesome National Exhibition Centre just outside Birmingham. |
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The danger is people listening to the moaning of disillusioned hacks and venerating a chocolate-box version of the past instead of seeking out new music. |
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Sam is famous for cuddling up to favoured hacks with a stream of tips. |
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With the passive agreement of the American press, she managed to escape the attention of the American paparazzi and the US equivalent of Grub Street hacks. |
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The event kicked off with Rourke running away from the assembled hacks towards the sea, dropping to his knees and engaging in what appeared to be a silent prayer. |
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But, for some crazy reason, most of the assembled ruddy-cheeked hacks and hackettes were chasing the Queen of Pop. |
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What happens is that we hacks, eager to sell papers or attract viewers, confect a story out of whatever result the race throws up. |
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It's a rat's nest in there, the same gang of talentless hicks and hacks that rejected the amendment 10 months back. |
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Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude. |
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Lenient registration restrictions on certain ccTLDs have resulted in various domain hacks. |
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The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum. |
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The rest of the guys took bigger hacks, making less consistent contact, but driving horsehide further when they did. |
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Tagg is often portrayed as a curmudgeon by Stateside hacks more used to glad-handers, and he seems to relish playing up to the preconceptions. |
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He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out. |
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In addition, around 1,800 riders go out into the outpack, a natural preserve which covers nearly 80 per cent of the park, on group hacks or otherwise. |
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Topics cover productivity and object hacks, user interaction, data munging, working with modules, debugging, developer tricks, the code, and other Perl ideas. |
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She's made a life for herself as a resourceful barkeep, and hacks for goods on the black market with her best friend Wynne, a computer genius and part-time stripper. |
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Hershel is bitten in the leg by one of the undead, and a quick-thinking Rick hacks off the infected limb in the hope that the zombification doesn't spread. |
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By her own admission Anne's distinctive features were crafted in places like the journalists' bar El Vino's, where newspaper hacks and hackettes used to gather. |
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