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BP, which is still engaged in its prolonged effort to permanently stop the resulting oil spill and clean it up, wasn't asked to join the strike-force consortium.
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Eager to reveal the latest wrinkle in a federal murder probe, the reporter Meg, played by Sally Field, prints information from a privileged government file — artfully leaked by Elliott Rosen, an obnoxious strike-force chief played by Bob Balaban.
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From the very onset his goal has been to create a global strike-force that operates as the enforcement-arm of the multinational corporations.
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Eager to reveal the latest wrinkle in a federal murder probe, the reporter Meg, played by Sally Field, prints information from a privileged government file — artfully leaked by Elliott Rosen, an obnoxious strike-force chief played by Bob Balaban.
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And I hope that we'll reconfigure them with greater strike-force capacity and greater intelligence capacity, but that's essentially what Hillary said in her e-mail.
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It is my belief that the torc factory strike-force should embark at once for Muriah via riverboat.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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We're not planning anything terribly major-some rapid deployment strike-force personnel working in conjunction with Pakistani forces.
Total War Ahern, Jerry 1981
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There were a few assumptions, one of them reasonable: the clockmaker's must be a safe-house or a radio-point or both, but nothing more: an organization capable of half crippling the Luftwaffe's front-line strike-force and removing the Army Chief-of-Staff and the Minister of the Interior from office wouldn't make its headquarters in Neueburg.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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Die Zelle was not only 'existing': it was in gear and on its way, knocking out the opposition on the other side of the wire - Feldmarschall Stockener and Bundesminister von Eckern et alia - and crippling the military structure so that West Germany would have to get out of NATO and surrender any claim to a nuclear role by virtue of an effective air strike-force.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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With Coloccini and central defensive partner Mike Williamson in imperious form against an impotent strike-force of Bent and Gyan, the minutes ticked away with little sign of an equaliser.
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