"Any company that dithers is increasing their costs," he said.
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And as America dithers, the global refugee crisis only gets worse.
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It's the lawful way to provide relief from ObamaCare while Congress dithers.
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Yet when it dithers, the rest of Europe squabbles and does nothing.
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The tailor dithers and dawdles, making one tiny change at a time.
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While London dithers over a new runway, Manchester Airport's expansion is already underway.
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While Angela Merkel dithers about Putin's criminal actions in Ukraine, Biden wants a fight.
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AS THE police in Venezuela shoot hungry looters, the Organisation of American States (OAS) dithers.
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In an inversion of the rule of thumb, while America dithers the European Union is acting.
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As long as Albany dithers, cities and localities have the power to enact many reforms themselves.
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Corporate America has an opportunity to make meaningful changes to the firearms industry while Congress dithers.
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Still, Congress dithers and if it continues to do so, DACA will expire, and Dixy will face deportation.
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Oil prices could be heading lower as OPEC dithers, the election raises fears and traders stand on the sidelines.
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About 400 miles away in Munich, an angst-ridden prince dithers and equivocates over the course of five acts.
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Just as with ObamaCare, while Congress dithers the administration should act to move the RFS in the right direction.
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It will likely continue for the next several weeks, as Congress dithers over whether to release the full Mueller report.
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In this telling, corporate America has taken action on gay rights, gun control, climate change, and the minimum wage—all while Congress dithers.
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Another important difference, says an ally, is that Mrs Kramp-Karrenbauer confronts tricky issues head-on, whereas Mrs Merkel dithers until her hand is forced.
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Dean goes from the East Coast to the West on a supposed business trip, and dithers around out there with his friend Eric (Rory Scovel).
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As the administration dithers on the appropriate federal response, the crisis claims the lives of 142 people each day and devastates communities around the country.
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In short, while the US dithers along in a cosmically stupid dispute over whether science is real, China is tackling climate change with all guns blazing.
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Markovits specializes in innocuous little moments of daily marital abrasion: You're late and hurrying, your spouse dithers over some detail, and a passive-aggressive barb triggers a testy response.
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A result of this visual flatness is that some sequences drag with clichés, as the camera dithers on hackneyed images like Lexi flushing her wedding ring down the motel sink.
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But I would counter by asking if it is any worse than leaving these detainees in deplorable, dangerous conditions -- a clear and present danger to international security -- while the world dithers?
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Of all those who have tackled Churchill onscreen, the majority tend to weight their words as though even badinage were an oration, but this new Churchill, sotto voce, dithers and huffs.
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He dithers, and a fair amount of screen time is devoted to a subplot in which he fraudulently jacks up the price of an Art Deco desk he's trying to sell.
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As Congress dithers, consumers and taxpayer-advocacy groups can show disapproval by identifying and publicizing the products made by inverted companies and similarly identifying and publicizing replacement products from less offensive competitors.
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The tax cuts look increasingly well-timed as the global economy slows and neighboring Germany dithers over whether to ease its fiscal burden while its economy teeters on the brink of recession.
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This video has apparently been circulating among the most credulous #MAGA types on Twitter and Facebook since at least April 2018, after which point the trail dithers off into an underbelly of social media spam.
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French policymakers are growing anxious as Germany, Europe's largest economy, dithers over how to pull itself back from the brink of recession, and they want Berlin to do more with its budget surplus to engineer a recovery.
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Thankfully creating the appearance of shading in 1-bit imagery is old hat for computer graphics, and an algorithm dithers and tweaks the picture so that more or fewer dots in various patterns create the illusion of a wider palette.
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Every day that Congress dithers and delays is another day Americans are being taxed too much, and another day the promise of success and prosperity has failed to materialize for the millions of American families eagerly waiting for tax relief.
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While the British government dithers about where to build London's first new full-length runway since the second world war, Turkey is busy constructing what is expected to be the world's largest airport, with a projected capacity of 200m, to replace creaking Ataturk.
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MALACCA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Leaders of Malaysia's ruling party on Sunday renewed a push for Anwar Ibrahim to lead the country, as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad dithers on the timing of the planned power transition he had promised to his former rival-turned-ally.
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While the nation's high court dithers (a ruling on two cases is expected some time soon), exasperated voters are seizing whatever weapons are at hand — ballot initiatives, lawsuits, YouTube mockery, mapping contests — to press the fight against blatant manipulation of election districts for partisan gain.
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While his father dithers and drinks, Jake goes down the rabbit hole and lands in a time loop where Miss Peregrine (a delightful Eva Green), welcomes him to 1943 with mad eyes and a Sherlock-sized pipe that she likes to clench between her pretty teeth.
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China splits the internet while the U.S. dithers As Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google — and no stranger to the operations of Chinese technology companies — noted last year at a private dinner (first reported by CNBC): [The] Chinese Internet is a greater percentage of the GDP of China, which is a big number, than the same percentage of the US, which is also a big number.
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Meanwhile, the industry's trade association dithers and the majority of car manufacturers — including giants such as Toyota, General Motors, Fiat-Chrysler and Nissan — remain silent, empowering the administration to move forward with an irresponsible replacement plan that could prompt a massive loading of a billion or more additional metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere between now and 2035 — more than the current annual emissions from countries such as Austria, Bangladesh or Greece.
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Julius C. Dithers is Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie. His wife is Cora Dithers. Mr. Dithers has a very harsh personality and is portrayed as a difficult and controlling employer. He continuously denies Dagwood's requests for a raise and frequently threatens to fire him.
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Dagwood purchases the wrong real estate property and Mr. Dithers promptly demotes him to office boy.
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C. Dithers), Elvia Allman (Mrs. Dithers), Frank Nelson and Harold Peary (Herb Woodley), Arthur Q. Bryan and Harry Lang (Mr. Fuddle), Dix Davis (Alvin Fuddle), Mary Jane Croft (Harriet), Veola Vonn and Lurene Tuttle (Dimples Wilson). Harry Lubin, Billy Artz and Lou Kosloff supplied the music.
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Some commentators described Martin's tenure as Prime Minister as unfocused and indecisive, with the Canadian correspondent of The Economist calling him "Mr. Dithers".
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They go to Dagwood and demand that he acts to put an end to the commotion, and get his wife to dissolve the group entirely. In another different turn of events, Dagwood's boss, J.C. Dithers, has been thrown out of his home, which is to be used by a delegation of soldiers visiting the area. Dithers flees the scene and takes up camp at a nearby hotel, and comes visiting Dagwood in his home. When Dithers is at the Bumstead house, a soldier from the delegation by the name of Herschel Smith comes to look for his host.
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The show was satirized on a 1976 episode of SCTV as Match Onto My Feet, with Joe Flaherty as Father John Duffy attending a Passover celebration of the Dithers family that ends up a disaster due to the misbehavior of the children, disagreements about the family business, and a misapplication of the rites by the family patriarch, Sid Dithers (Eugene Levy).
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"Domier details a stretched Do.328." Flight International, 29 October 1991. pp. 4–5."DASA dithers on Dornier 328 stretch." Flight International, 11 May 1993. p. 10.
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Blondie (also known as The New Blondie) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1968–69 television season. The series is an updated version of the 1957 TV series that was based on the comic strip of the same name. The series stars Patricia Harty at the title character and Will Hutchins as her husband Dagwood Bumstead. Jim Backus played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real life wife Henny Backus playing Cora Dithers.
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Although some bedroom and bathroom scenes still show him in polka-dot boxer shorts, Dagwood no longer wears garters to hold up his socks. When at home, he frequently wears sport shirts, his standard dress shirt with one large button in the middle is slowly disappearing, and he no longer smokes a pipe at all. Blondie now often wears slacks, and she is no longer depicted as a housewife, since she teamed with Tootsie Woodley to launch a catering business in 1991. Dagwood still knocks heads with his boss, Mr. Dithers, but now does so in a more modern office at J.C. Dithers Construction Company, where desks now sport flat-panel computer monitors, and Mr. Dithers, when in a rage, attempts to smash his laptop into Dagwood's head instead of his old manual typewriter.
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The group also consists of "Chairman Horns" (the Pointy- Haired Boss from Dilbert), Mary Worth, Uncle Duke from Doonsbury, and (until Horns brutally kills him) Mr. Dithers from Blondie. Pruneface, alongside the Brow, is one of the antagonists in Dick Tracy Forever.
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One of her more steady radio gigs was on the Blondie radio series in the part of Cora Dithers, the domineering wife of Dagwood Bumstead's boss. Allman became a familiar face to television viewers in the 1950s with numerous guest appearances on many programs of the era, usually situation comedies. She made multiple appearances on I Married Joan, December Bride, The Bob Cummings Show, and The Abbott and Costello Show, and three appearances on I Love Lucy. In 1957, she reprised her role of Cora Dithers in a short-lived TV adaption of Blondie. Allman had earlier played the role in the 1940s on several episodes of the Blondie radio series.
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He always addresses Dagwood somewhat disrespectfully by using only his last name "Bumstead" Despite the frequent disputes at work, Julius and Cora are frequent dinner guests at Dagwood's home after work. On these occasions, the relationship is more cordial, with Mr. Dithers addressing Dagwood by his first name.
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The nurse states, "Weak children can be taught by strong children and strong children learn compassion." Dagwood shows his architectural model to the girl's father who decides to purchase the building. As a result, Dagwood, who had been fired by Mr. Dithers earlier, is promised a nice bonus.
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Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Corps. Hale is most well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the Blondie film series in the 1940s. He is also notable for playing Inspector Fernack in various The Saint films by RKO Pictures.
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Hanley Stafford (born Alfred John Austin, September 22, 1899 - September 9, 1968), was an actor principally on radio. He is remembered best for playing Lancelot Higgins on The Baby Snooks Show. Stafford also assumed the role of Mr. Dithers, the boss of Dagwood Bumstead on the Blondie radio program. He is commemorated by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Hart was memorialized in a May 14, 2007, strip of the comic strip Mother Goose & Grimm. In the June 20, 2007, Blondie strip, the last panel shows Mr. Dithers saying, "Boy oh boy, that Johnny Hart sure knew his stuff, didn't he?" Bruce Tinsley honored Hart in his Mallard Fillmore strip of July 10, 2007. A July 10, 2007 Mallard Fillmore tribute.
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Dagwood assumes the parcel contains a bomb, and that the man is about to blow up the dam. He starts chasing the man to stop the sabotage, forgetting about his own predicament for a moment. He catches up and struggles with the man for control over the parcel. Just when he gains control over the package, Blondie, Dithers and the two soldiers arrive at the scene.
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Brissot accepts, but then takes it back after Irène is cold to him. The little man tells him that his offer still holds, but the price doubles every day. Brissot dithers until the 23rd day, but when he tries to pay the current price, he does not have quite enough money. Later, Irène telephones, telling him she has the money he needs, but is murdered before he can get to her.
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Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip Blondie. He debuted in the first strip on September 8, 1930. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married Blondie née Boopadoop, a flapper whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J. C. Dithers Construction Company as office manager to support his family.
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Seeing the soldier and aware of Dagwood's predicament, Dithers comes up with a plan to disband the Housewives of America once and for all. He urges Dagwood to borrow the soldier's uniform, and go to the camp where the women's group are staying overnight on a training mission. Dagwood is to inform Blondie that he has enlisted in the army. When Dagwood arrives to the camp all the women are already gone, except for Blondie.
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He is often suspicious of her dates and keeps a close watch on them when they come to the house. Other characters in his universe include Elmo Tuttle, a pesky little neighborhood kid who wanders in and out of the Bumstead house, next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Lou, the sarcastic cook in a local diner, and Mr. Dithers' domineering wife, Cora. Dagwood's birthday is July 20, and/or April 21.
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"York U will grab Pan Am stadium if Hamilton dithers", Toronto Star, June 9, 2010 Numerous institutions across Hamilton, Ontario are named in his honour, including the David Braley Athletic Centre and the David Braley Health Sciences Centre at McMaster University, the David Braley Athletic and Recreation Centre at Mohawk College, and the David Braley Resaerch Institute at the Hamilton General Hospital. In 2012, Braley was elected into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
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Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is forced to receive a college diploma in order to remain a worker at the Dithers Construction Company. He goes to school with his wife Blondie (Penny Singleton), until they get the news married couples are not allowed. They decide to pretend they aren't a couple. A dilemma starts when Laura Wadsworth (Janet Blair) begins to flirt with Dagwood and Big Man on Campus Rusty Bryant (Larry Parks) does the same with Blondie.
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There are lyrical moments, taking turns with the running motif, and a hymn-like melody to conclude. Clyne packs a lot of emotions into its 12-minute length." Scott Cantrell of The Dallas Morning News was more critical of the piece, however, remarking, "Fourteen minutes long, it's certainly a loose-strung stream of consciousness. Restless scrambles from lower strings evoke the opening of Wagner's Die Walküre, then various chatters and dithers work their way through the orchestra.
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Jason appeared on stage in London in the farce No Sex Please, We're British playing Brian Runnicles for 18 months in 1973. Jason appeared in variety shows in support of stars such as Dick Emery and his performances caught the attention of Ronnie Barker. Jason was recruited to appear in Hark at Barker (LWT, 1969), starring opposite Barker's Lord Rustless, as Dithers, the hundred-year old gardener. There was also a sequel, His Lordship Entertains (1972) for the BBC.
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Herschel arrives at the Housewives of America camp just as Blondie is about to renounce her membership in the group. Following behind him are Dithers and two M.P.s, who are looking for their AWOL soldier. The M.P.s mistake Dagwood for their lost soldier and begin to chase him, as he runs for the woods and up the mountainside. Running toward the dam, Dagwood catches sight of a little suspicious looking man, climbing up the dam with a parcel under his arm.
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It again also starred David Jason as the 100-year-old Dithers and Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates, two actors who would go on to have long working relationships with Barker. In fact all of the regular cast reprised their roles from Hark at Barker. Barker wrote all the scripts under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald. . He liked to refer to the show as "Fawlty Towers mark one" as it appeared on television three years before that other hotel bound sitcom.
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These pieces were eventually compiled into a series of books, including Nuts in May, Dithers and Jitters, Excuse It Please!, and The Ape in Me, among others. In a "comprehensive study" of Skinner's work, G. Bruce Loganbill (1961) refers to Skinner's scripts as "monologue-dramas," which were extensions of the "linked monologues" developed by Ruth Draper. Skinner's work differed in structure and content however, creating and performing full-length monologue-dramas that were based on the lives of historical figures.
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The series was filmed in two separate production blocks consisting of 26 and 13 episodes, which are considered as the first and second series. The final 13 episodes employ refurbished puppets and sets, and are copyrighted 1962 Wonderama Productions on the end credits (the first 26 episodes omitted any on-screen copyright information). Various puppets from the series were re-used in later Roberta Leigh productions including Wonderboy and Tiger and Send for Dithers. These colour films reveal the fact that the Gabblerdictum was bright pink.
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Helped and hindered by Rustless' secretary (Mildred) Bates, his Butler Badger, his bad-tempered Cook, his incoherent gardener Dithers and (in Series 2) his buxom, near-mute maid Effie, these lectures invariably degenerated into farce, and were frequently interrupted by comic sketches on film or videotape which also starred Barker in various roles. Barker reprised the role of Lord Rustless in the BBC series His Lordship Entertains, and played very similar characters in Futtock's End and the Two Ronnies specials The Picnic and By the Sea.
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His favorite things in life include his wife Blondie, his kids, naps on the sofa, long baths, and food. Dagwood is famous for concocting tall, multilayered sandwiches topped with an olive on a toothpick, and the term "Dagwood sandwich" has entered American English. He frequently has problems with door-to-door salesmen, rude telemarketers and store salespeople, crashing into the mailman (Mr. Beasley) as he rushes from home, getting ready before the carpool leaves without him, getting to work on time, his boss J.C. Dithers, and Cookie's many dates.
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Roberta Leigh was an assumed name for Rita Lewin (née Shulman) (22 December 1926 – 19 December 2014) who was a British author, artist, composer and television producer. She wrote romance fiction and children's stories under the pseudonyms Roberta Leigh, Rachel Lindsay, Janey Scott and Rozella Lake. She published her first novel in 1950 and was still actively working on new titles until a year before her death. In addition, she wrote and produced the children's puppet television series Sara and Hoppity, Torchy the Battery Boy, Wonder Boy and Tiger, Send for Dithers and Space Patrol.
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She created eight puppet TV series, including The Adventures Of Twizzle (1957), Torchy the Battery Boy (1958), Sara and Hoppity (1962), Wonder Boy and Tiger, Send for Dithers, and Space Patrol (1962). The latter - syndicated around the globe and achieving the highest ratings of any children's show up to that time - chronicled the year 2100 adventures of Captain Larry Dart of the spaceship Galasphere 347. This was followed by Paul Starr (1964) and a live-action colour space adventure series, The Solarnauts (1967). For these two later series, however, only the pilot episodes were filmed.
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Kora's and Eros's feelings intensify, but Kora dithers on whether she wants a relationship with Eros, which leaves Eros feeling heartbroken. Kora and Eros learn that Eros is actually the descendant of the previous Sira (the ruler of the planet), and that Eros is the rightful heir to the throne. They also learn that Roma, the current Sira, intends to wipe out all of humanity in a genocidal nanite attack. With the help of Roma's good-natured brother Serek, they are able to thwart Roma's plan and disable the world's nanites, but not before many humans die.
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The events of the episode prove so exhausting or over- exciting for Malcolm that his mother always offers to ring work for him and get him the following day off. The central event of each episode is the visit from friend of the family Arthur Capstick, played by UK sitcom veteran Brian Murphy, who mentions something to Mrs Merton (usually about the death of a neighbour) and then forgets he's said it. He has a cup of tea and is offered a snack, but dithers over which one to have, despite the fact that "they're all the same, Arthur". He then says he'll pop up to see Mr Merton, but forgets to go and has to be prompted.
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Gamma correction test image. Only valid at browser zoom = 100% This procedure is useful for making a monitor display images approximately correctly, on systems in which profiles are not used (for example, the Firefox browser prior to version 3.0 and many others) or in systems that assume untagged source images are in the sRGB colorspace. In the test pattern, the intensity of each solid color bar is intended to be the average of the intensities in the surrounding striped dither; therefore, ideally, the solid areas and the dithers should appear equally bright in a system properly adjusted to the indicated gamma. Normally a graphics card has contrast and brightness control and a transmissive LCD monitor has contrast, brightness, and backlight control.
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Back in the studio during the week, Joel phones Miles but Stella answers; she invites him to a dinner and theatre party because her husband will be flying to a big Notre Dame game. Joel cautiously mentions the invitation to Miles, who dithers jealously then decides to take Stella himself, but on a whim invites Joel too. "Joel could not get to the dinner. Self-conscious in his silk hat against the unemployment, he waited for the others in front of the Hollywood Theatre and watched the evening parade: obscure replicas of bright, particular picture stars, spavined men in polo coats…" Stella appears, stunning in a sparkling ice-blue dress; Miles had decided to fly to the game after all, and she's just got a telegram to say he's starting back.
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The Government of Assam faced difficulties in defining Assamese people for Assam Accord, due to linguistically and culturally heterogeneous population. Though there is a political dispute over the definition of Assamese people, in general; the people belonging to the state of Assam are referred sometimes as Assamese people or more appropriately as People of Assam. The lack of a definition has put stumbling blocks in implementing clause 6Clause 6 of Assam Accord: "Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social and linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people." of the Assam Accord, an agreement signed by the activists of the Assam Movement and the Government of India in 1985.Assam dithers over Accord, The Telegraph, 15 July 2004.
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Yet, the most remarkable thing about it is its promise of the expected arrival of a 'Message from stars' that has all the knowledge of Cosmos hidden in it. Spread over six days of teleconference, the young scientist then lays before the world hundreds of arguments, from different disciplines of science, showing to humanity that this 'logically predicted Message of the Design' is not a thing of the future, but is already here, and in order to save the planet, humanity is only required to unravel the information coded within it... But humanity dithers. And as the ice age tightens its talons around the planet, and organic life groans under the increased sufferings, the young man himself decides to work on the Message. Once again he gets help and presents before the world, the ultimate argument, its anomaly and its solution...
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The Quebec Agreement of 1943 paved the way for the two countries to develop atomic weapons side by side, the UK handing over vital documents from its own Tube Alloys project and sending a delegation to assist in the work of the Manhattan Project. The US later kept the results of the work to itself under the postwar McMahon Act, but after the UK developed its own thermonuclear weapons, the US agreed to supply delivery systems, designs and nuclear material for British warheads through the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement. The UK purchased first Polaris and then the US Trident system which remains in use. The 1958 agreement gave the UK access to the facilities at the Nevada Test Site, and from 1963 it conducted a total of 21 underground tests there before the cessation of testing in 1991.'Time Runs Out as Clinton Dithers over Nuclear Test', Independent On Sunday (20 June 1993), p. 13.
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Celebrities impersonated by Levy on SCTV include Perry Como, Ricardo Montalbán, Alex Trebek, Sean Connery, Howard Cosell, Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin, Bud Abbott, Milton Berle, John Charles Daly, Gene Shalit, Judd Hirsch, Jack Carter, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tony Dow, James Caan, Lorne Greene, Rex Reed, Ralph Young (of Sandler and Young), F. Lee Bailey, Ernest Borgnine, former Ontario chief coroner and talk show host Dr. Morton Shulman, Norman Mailer, Neil Sedaka and Howard McNear as Floyd the Barber. Original Levy characterizations on SCTV are comic Bobby Bittman, scandal sheet entrepreneur Dr. Raoul Withers, "report on business" naïf Brian Johns, 3-D horror auteur Woody Tobias Jr., cheerful Leutonian accordionist Stan Schmenge, lecherous dream interpreter Raoul Wilson, hammer-voiced sports broadcaster Lou Jaffe, diminutive union patriarch Sid Dithers ("San Francisckie! Did you drove or did you flew?"), fey current-events commentator Joel Weiss, buttoned-down panel show moderator Dougal Currie, smarmy Just for Fun emcee Stan Kanter, energetic used car salesman Al Peck, guileless security guard Gus Gustofferson, Phil the Garment King (also of Phil's Nails), and the inept teen dance show host Rockin’ Mel Slirrup.
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