In Poland Law and Justice has splashed out on a welfare bonanza.
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Three years later Facebook splashed out $18bn on WhatsApp, a rival messaging firm.
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In 203, the first year that the vanilla price jumped, everyone splashed out.
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Earlier this year, West splashed out on a $14 million ranch in Wyoming.
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High rollers at the Grosvenor chain had also splashed out less than expected.
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This time, the flame soared, splashed out of the canister and burned eleven kids.
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On a recent night, one of the heaviest, hundreds of Rohingya refugees splashed out.
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The firm operates dozens of fulfilment centres in America and has splashed out on automation.
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An earlier court hearing heard how she splashed out 150,000 pounds on jewelry in a day.
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So as the music industry celebrated its highest ever profit margin, it splashed out and spent.
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HNA and related units have splashed out tens of billions of dollars on acquisitions since 2012.
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Tom Holland splashed out on his brothers' 21st-birthday presents, buying them a piano and a Rolex.
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Rometty, meanwhile, splashed out too much in her $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat unveiled in 2018.
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He splashed out more than £22006m on the players who won consecutive league titles in 21999 and 22000.
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Another Chinese visitor, a retired professor of art, has splashed out over £2403 on T-shirts from Boss.
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But Adeyemi's novel also splashed out of the book circuit, with spotlights on Good Morning America, Shondaland, and more.
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Since HBO wasn't bringing a Watchmen panel to the con, the network must have splashed out on something memorable.
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Univision is also looking to build its online portfolio, but it has already splashed out on other companies recently.
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What can be said about WeWork that hasn't already been splashed out in excruciating detail across newspapers' front pages?
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He splashed out to acquire Pogba, yet has struggled to find a way to make the best use of him.
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Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal and other giants have splashed out on cutting-edge cosmetics in Japan and Korea, seeking clout and innovation.
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When Azerbaijan splashed out $76m in 2012, it poached the money from a fund meant to fix the country's crumbling waterworks.
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When Beijing hosted the Olympic games in 2008, foreign visitors splashed out a little more in China than Chinese did abroad.
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The Mail reported that Markle had "splashed out £5,000," or $6,400, on a copper bathtub, which Markle says does not exist.
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It also splashed out 51.95 million yuan on tellurium, although on that occasion Vital itself was named as the winning bidder.
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Her hair has been bobbed and curled, and she's splashed out on the sparkly pink drop-waist dress she wanted to buy.
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The Costco shopper who splashed out $600,000 on a diamond engagement ring just got a shoutout on the company's latest earnings call.
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Consumers splashed out on food, alcohol, clothes, household goods and communications while using less gas and electricity because of rising utility prices.
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In October, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum splashed out $4.3 million on a young colt with an impressive bloodline.
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Chinese companies splashed out at least $21bn on Brazilian deals last year, including the purchase of power plants, an electricity distributor and ports.
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A Costco shopper who splashed out $600,000 on a diamond engagement ring got a shoutout in the company's latest earnings call on Thursday.
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Ireland, flush with cash from its debt-fuelled "Celtic Tiger" economic boom, pumped out $1.32 trillion, and Hong Kong investors splashed out $1.7 trillion.
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If you've spent any time in Silicon Valley offices you'll see the ubiquitous bottles of Hint water splashed out along kitchen counters and desks.
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Huawei splashed out on international marketing campaigns last year, getting footballer Lionel Messi and Hollywood stars Scarlett Johannson and Henry Cavill as brand ambassadors.
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Lu Xianfeng, a little-known Chinese entrepreneur, visited not long after President Xi Jinping paid a visit and splashed out on Australia's largest dairy.
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Imported high-end beers saw a 60 percent jump last year as consumers splashed out on brews such as "Hop Zombie" and "Armageddon IPA".
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It splashed out $30 million last year to build the network beyond Malawi's three major cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu to outlying areas.
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Just weeks before the United States approved BeiGene's cancer drug, biotechnology giant Amgen splashed out $2.7 billion for a 20.5% stake in the company.
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The rally was led by consumer and transport firms seen benefiting from the long break when locals splashed out more on trips and consumer goods.
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Abu Dhabi had splashed out $800 million to own a 90 percent stake in the Chrysler Building at the onset of the 20173 financial crisis.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Asian-controlled leasing companies splashed out on passenger jets worth $25 billion at list prices to pick out bargains as planemakers Airbus (AIR.
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There was a sizable gap between the bottom of the curtain and the edge of the shower, which meant a lot of water splashed out.
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And in June Ocado, a British online grocery, splashed out £17m ($21.3m) on vertical-farming businesses to grow fresh produce within its automated distribution depots.
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The other promoted side, Middlesbrough, have splashed out, with the presence of the former Real Madrid defender Aitor Karanka in the dugout presumably proving a draw.
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The incumbent Republican governor, Bruce Rauner (pictured), who splashed out some $50m on his campaign, saw off a strong challenge from a right-winger, Jeanne Ives.
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This year they've really splashed out, by having it in the office canteen, but it starts at 4 PM so you kind of have to go.
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A billionaire car enthusiast splashed out £390,000 (over $500,000) on a vintage Porsche before seeing it — and now, he&aposs experiencing some serious buyer&aposs remorse.
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His fee is 5 million dollars more than that paid for Ivorian Eric Bailly: Manchester United are said to have splashed out almost 40 million dollars for him.
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The Philippines splashed out $22016 billion on the 33-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, but mothballed it after the collapse of a dictatorship and the devastating Chernobyl disaster.
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When they splashed out of an inflatable dinghy to examine Coral Castles closely, they were greeted with a vista of bright greens and purples — unmistakable signs of life.
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But that would not have come with a big Chinese loan or the cash that was splashed out on subcontracts and the land purchases needed for the new line.
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Abramovich, who's worth $11 billion according to Forbes magazine, also splashed out some $400 million for the world's second-largest yacht in 2010, which he named Eclipse, ironically enough.
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Australian construction spending boasted its biggest rise on record last quarter as miners splashed out on major engineering projects, a surprise that could lift economic growth well above initial expectations.
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Top selling daily Bild splashed "OUT!" across its website after the defending champions' 2-0 defeat by South Korea, calling it a nightmare but adding "We didn't deserve any better".
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The latest reports indicate that Beijing is now scrutinizing loans to Wanda in efforts to assess debt risk, something that has also impacted other major firms that splashed out overseas.
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One of the candidates to score the cleanest hits on Buttigieg was Klobuchar, and donors impressed by her performance splashed out $1 million to her campaign coffers following the debate.
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One of the first big boosts in NHS spending came in 1962 when Enoch Powell, an early champion of the free market, splashed out on 90 new and 134 refurbished hospitals.
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My wife splashed out in part because its covered carousel was the only thing that could feed our cat, Mowgli, wet food when we went away, for up to five days.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian construction spending boasted its biggest rise on record last quarter as miners splashed out on major engineering projects, a surprise that could lift economic growth well above initial expectations.
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Another one of the rare SVX Concept Defenders went under the hammer last month with a whopping $320,000 estimate - meaning it&aposs likely Ramsay splashed out more than $250,000 for the car.
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Australian shoppers splashed out on clothing and at department stores in May in a much-needed fillip to consumption, while a strong month for resource exports also augured well for economic growth.
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Over the past few years, Chinese companies have splashed out on many prominent properties - China Investment Corporation bought several office buildings in Sydney and Brisbane, and Aqualand purchased waterfront property in Sydney.
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According to new data from AdAge, the consumer electronics and appliance maker splashed out $11.2 billion for advertising and sales promotion last year, compared with P&G, which spent an estimated $10.5 billion.
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But rather than use all this extra cash to pay down Britain's public debt, as the Tories' robust rhetoric on righting the public finances might have suggested, a grateful Mr Hammond splashed out.
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Sanderson Farms made a record payout last year while Pilgrim's Pride, in which Brazil's JBS has a 78.5 percent stake, splashed out with special dividends totaling $8.52 per share in 2015 and 2016.
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Symptom A: Albertsons buying Rite Aid to gain scale and enter the pharmacy business Symptom B: Walmart's online sales growing just 23 percent in the fourth quarter, after it splashed out on Jet.
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That marked the fastest expansion in more than three years as shoppers splashed out on durable goods, an encouraging sign that consumer spending is no longer the weak spot in Japan's economic outlook.
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How this stacks up is yet to be seen, but Google has been investing heavily in AI and splashed out around $500 million for a U.K. firm called DeepMind with expertise in this technology.
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ESPN is part of new packages like Dish Network's Sling TV. Iger splashed out $20063 billion for a one-third stake in Major League Baseball's streaming technology, with the option to buy it out.
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Temasek splashed out some $5.7 billion for a quarter of the business and a say on the board, amounting to an enterprise value equivalent to a punchy 13 times that year's EBITDA, Goldman Sachs reckons.
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Because I planned on having a few of these over the course of the night, I splashed out extra to get it in an obnoxiously large plastic cyclone souvenir thing for the sake of refillability.
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Prosecutors have introduced evidence suggesting Manafort oversaw transfers of funds directly from offshore accounts to vendors and merchants, and splashed out on flashy, big-ticket items like a $15,000 ostrich jacket and a $21,000 watch.
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In the winter of 2016-17 alone, teams in the decidedly mediocre Chinese Super League splashed out more than $400 million on international stars like Carlos Tevez and Oscar, outspending even the English Premier League.
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ESPN is part of new packages like Dish Network's Sling TV. Mr. Iger splashed out $1 billion for a one-third stake in Major League Baseball's streaming technology, with the option to buy it out.
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So while tourist spending stagnated in 2015, businessfolk splashed out 7% more in Britain than the previous year, according to the Global Business Travel Association, an industry body, which forecasts further growth of 6% this year.
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Whereas other emerging markets and developing countries devoted around 215% of GDP to public-sector wages, a report from the IMF found in 2015 that in the GCC (plus Algeria) they splashed out closer to 12%.
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SYDNEY, July 4 (Reuters) - Australian shoppers splashed out on clothing and at department stores in May in a much-needed fillip to consumption, while a strong month for resource exports also augured well for economic growth.
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Read more: Someone splashed out $400,000 on a diamond ring at Costco They discussed perks like cash-back offerings, the upside of the Kirkland brand, and a number of surprising products you can buy at Costco.
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SYDNEY, March 1 27 (Reuters) - Australian business investment suffered a surprising slip last quarter as miners spent less on buildings, yet other sectors splashed out more on plant and machinery in a positive sign for economic growth.
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So while tourist spending stagnated in 2015, business folk splashed out 7% more in Britain than the previous year, according to the Global Business Travel Association, an industry body, which forecasts further growth of 6% this year.
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GENEVA (AP) — Car lovers from around the world splashed out more than $27 million at an auction Sunday for dozens of luxury cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's president in a Swiss money-laundering probe.
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LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - Britons splashed out in bars and restaurants at the expense of retailers in the Easter holidays last month, surveys showed on Wednesday, and there were signs that households were turning less worried about Brexit.
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In a battle for the world's largest mobile payment and retail market, Tencent has splashed out billions forging alliances with new partners like Carrefour and subsidizing merchants to lure them onto its payment-to-messenger super app WeChat.
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Cronos said it would spend more in the second half than the $28.5 million it splashed out in the first, as it invests in its Israeli research facility and boosts production capacity for its medical marijuana brand Peace Natural.
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Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A. and you can think of nothing sweeter than crawling back to your cramped flatshare and downing a glass of that £7.99 Pinot Grigio you splashed out on last payday.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Cellnex is still looking to buy assets, its chief executive said on Thursday, two days after the Spanish towers group splashed out 2.7 billion euros ($3.02 billion) on 10,700 mobile towers owned by French tycoon Xavier Niel.
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Volkswagen (VW) has for years splashed out shareholder money in a bid to build a top soccer team even as experts questioned the business case because VfL Wolfsburg have only limited revenue streams and lack an international fan base.
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He'd splashed out at a time when the Chinese government was implicitly a fan of overseas mergers and acquisitions — seen as a way to increase China's clout — buying up Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment and movie theater chain AMC Entertainment.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)4) Check you're getting the full 4K experienceIf you've splashed out on a full 4K-capable Xbox One X console, then you want to make sure that all those pixels are getting pushed to your television set.
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China has splashed out billions of dollars in subsidies to promote greener cars, creating a gold-rush among unknown start-ups, but is now tightening its grip on the world's biggest electric vehicle market to weed out weaker domestic firms.
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When he landed his big role as Charlie Wu, the former flame of major character Astrid, in "Crazy Rich Asians" pre-production sequel "China Rich Girlfriend," Shum said he splashed out on not one, but two, electronic skateboards, known as Onewheels.
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The final price—which is more than the MSRP for a 2018 Subaru Outback—broke the previous record for Yubari melons; in 2016, a supermarket buyer splashed out ¥3 million ($27,240) to score his own set of the coveted fruit.
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Over 203 billion yuan, or $41.6 billion, was spent on product development, sales and marketing, general administration and cost of revenue last year, a 86.2 percent increase in renminbi terms from 2017, when the company splashed out 149.7 billion yuan.
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In the early 2000s, when 53G technology made web-browsing feasible on mobiles, operators splashed out more than $100 billion on radio-spectrum licences, only to find that the technology most had agreed to use was harder to implement than expected.
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Unlike others, however, he has not splashed out on star players to boost his profile, but has invested for the long term, spending £100m on infrastructure, such as a training ground and youth academy, and on scouting for overlooked talent.
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British media said United splashed out a world record fee of 89 million pounds ($115.98 million) on the 23-year-old, eclipsing the 100 million euros ($13 million) Real Madrid paid for Welshman Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013.
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British media said United splashed out a world record fee of 89 million pounds ($115.98 million) on the 20133--year-old, eclipsing the 100 million euros ($110.84 million) Real Madrid paid for Welshman Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013.
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Run by billionaire boss Bernard Arnault, LVMH has more often opted to grow through purchases, and it splashed out $3.2 billion at the end of last year to buy hotel owner Belmond in a bid to branch into upscale hospitality.
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Meanwhile, mainland clubs have splashed out huge sums but are unlikely to make a good return: match-day receipts and broadcasting and advertising sales are slowly climbing, but not fast enough to offset the huge costs of poaching high-profile coaches and players.
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At least, in these uncertain times, people were still buying high-end contemporary art — just as they did the previous night at Christie's, where the Japanese Internet billionaire Yusaku Maezawa splashed out $81.3 million on five trophy works, including a $19423 million Basquiat.
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It appears Justin Bieber is taking his 2015 hit "Love Yourself" quite literally: The Canadian singer-songwriter has splashed out on some new high-end wrist candy as a wedding present to himself — he did make it down the aisle twice, after all.
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Active buyers include brewer Asahi, which in July splashed out $11 billion on Anheuser-Busch InBev's Australian arm and drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical, which last year completed the country's biggest outbound deal: the takeover of UK rival Shire for $77 billion including debt.
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If you want to be able to speak frankly in a non-scandalous manner that would nonetheless be problematic to see show up splashed out of context on Drudge Report, you need to bear some of the inconvenience of shifting to a verbal communications medium.
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Here are some others that emerged with gold stars: Car companies: From Jeep's visual tribute to Audi's emotional spot featuring David Bowie's "Starman", automakers splashed out some of those record profits this year to prove there's still emotion tied up in the idea of American's automobiles.
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At the height of music industry excess, the artists had such a healthy credit rating that they splashed out on theme parks, imported safari animals, and dubiously expensive holistic therapies alongside the usual vacuous shit mega-rich people do, like owning eight houses and seventeen vintage cars.
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Black holes are a one-way gate to gravitational oblivion, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, but they can only swallow so much, depending on their size; the rest of the matter and energy gets splashed out across space, producing the fireworks popularly known as quasars.
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Read more: The 11 highest-spending soccer clubs in Europe right now have already splashed out $2 billion this summerThe 20173-time La Liga champion has already spent $331.7 million to recruit five new players, including Belgian forward Eden Hazard who joined from Chelsea in a $109.5 million deal.
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Some 30 other princes were also arrested, mistreated, humiliated and stripped of their wealth, even as MbS splashed out on palaces, a $500 million yacht, and set a new record in the international art market with the purchase of a painting by Italian Renaissance engineer and painter Leonardo Da Vinci.
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The candidates burned through $15.6m in the past three months, led by J.B. Pritzker, a self-funded billionaire businessman running for the Democrats, who splashed out $11.1m, mostly on television advertising, followed by Bruce Rauner, the self-funding Republican incumbent, who spent $2.6m, even though he has not confirmed yet that he is running for re-election.
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The paper trail appears to show that President Trump's former campaign chief paid $2470,22016 for a home karaoke and audio-video system, loaned a quarter-million bucks to an antique carpet store in Virginia in exchange for half-a-million bucks worth of oriental rugs as collateral, and splashed out $003,200 on less than two years' worth of landscaping at his home in the Hamptons (including over $215,22018 for hydrangeas and $8,000 just to keep his lawn mowed).
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The paper trail appears to show that President Trump's former campaign chief paid $46,000 for a home karaoke and audio-video system, loaned a quarter-million bucks to an antique carpet store in Virginia in exchange for half-a-million bucks worth of oriental rugs as collateral, and splashed out $153,000 on less than two years' worth of landscaping at his home in the Hamptons (including over $9,000 for hydrangeas and $8,000 just to keep his lawn mowed).
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