South London Swimming Club: Tooting Bec Lido, Tooting Bec Road; 44-208-871-7198; slsc.org.uk.
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Driving off, I heard people clapping and tooting their horns.
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They're just not very good at tooting their own horn. Right.
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Back then, Tooting was a far cry from the melting pot it is today, when a Chicken Shop and the Honest Burger on Tooting High Street stand out as exotic among the succession of South Asian restaurants.
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Of course there's no plan, just a blowhard ceaselessly tooting his horn.
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In Tooting, subsidized public housing is scant and waiting lists are long.
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London's mayor almost always speaks fondly of Tooting, but there are exceptions.
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Some parts of yesteryear's Tooting, to be sure, are unworthy of nostalgia.
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The front door is still locked and Robert drives away, tooting his horn.
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Indeed, the Labour Party candidate's strategic use of Tooting did not go unnoticed.
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He was elected to Parliament, for an area of London called Tooting, in 2005.
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"Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable," the memo reads.
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In 2003, counterterrorism police arrested Babar Ahmad, a childhood acquaintance of Khan's, in Tooting.
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In Tooting, Khan goaded the activists with memories of the populist victories of 2016.
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The side-by-side Broadway Market and Tooting Market are worth a morning's wander.
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Continue east on Mitcham Road and you will hit the neighborhood's hidden gem: Tooting Commons, a park of over 57173 acres with tangled paths running through manicured lawns, and Tooting Bec Lido, the largest freshwater pool in England which was built in 1906.
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But Bill pulled a little one-up on Kenny by tooting his own iconic horn.
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In the general election, the Conservatives targeted Khan with a high-profile campaign in Tooting.
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If bragging sets you off, chances are excellent you struggle with tooting your own horn.
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Get out at Tooting Broadway station, by the century-old statue of King Edward VII.
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Walk north on Tooting High Street, which follows the line of a Roman-built road.
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Tooting, for its part, was left to bask in the light of Mr. Khan's ascension.
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Hosting a historic event is great, but Is it not embarrassing to keep tooting that horn?
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Did you like the bit in "Intro" when he mentioned local places like Lewisham and Tooting?
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Across from Tooting's northern subway station, Tooting Bec, is the Wheatsheaf pub, an old public house.
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He's always been a shepherd in my corner from afar without ever tooting a horn in public.
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Yeah, that's right, that's a crucified rabbit made wholly of toast, outside Tooting Broadway station #easter pic.twitter.
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Farhad: I'm pretty sure that what you just did is the definition of tooting your own horn.
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Days after Ahmad's second arrest, there was a meeting in Tooting, where Khan was the main speaker.
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While we might be shy about tooting our own horns, our friends love to sing our praises.
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An article last Sunday about the mayor of London's London referred incorrectly in two instances to Tooting.
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Mary is very opinionated and enjoys tooting her own horn, but so do the rest of the girls.
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I have nothing to do with Kordell 'TOOTING' his derrière to the camera for the world to see.
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TV people are tooting and Google is diluting, but first, a cartoon about a sticky climate change problem.
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A stunning 75 percent of voters in Wandsworth, the London borough encompassing Tooting, voted against Brexit last June.
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At fifteen, Khan joined the Labour Party; on Saturday mornings, he would hand out leaflets on Tooting High Street.
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In 2014, Tooting Arts Club staged its immersive version at Harrington's, one of London's oldest pie-and-mash shops.
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Tooting Market has been running since 1939, but some modern cafes, bars, and quirky shops have recently moved in.
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Scott calls it bird food, but hey, it gets the job done and it cuts down on flatus, a.k.a. tooting!
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As family members sit around the table, it's likely some form of recognisable music will come tooting from the speakers.
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Many workers feel uncomfortable with the idea of tooting their own horn, but think of it more as being informative.
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But have you ever had the occasion to attend it on the intimate terms provided by the Tooting Arts Club?
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More unusually, 0.4 percent of Tooting (63 people) identifies religiously as "Jedi Knight" — in reference to the "Star Wars" films.
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Later, he'll return to his aunt's house in Tooting, where he'll fall asleep underneath four life-size cutouts of the Vamps.
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They're in the middle of the road, cars swerving around them, tooting, and I saw the guy rip her wig off.
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Lovett, brought over with the production from London's Tooting Arts Club, were fine but both you and I found them screamy.
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Oddly enough for an institution that people think of as overconfident sometimes, we're not that good at tooting our own horn.
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It's fairly unremarkable, where houses cost a little less than in central Tooting, because they are farther from major transport links.
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"Prices have shot up in Tooting in the last couple of years," said Robin Chatwin of Savills, the real estate agency.
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House prices in Tooting have risen by 51% in the past five years, and the average home costs just over £670,000.
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One pictures crowns and carriages, trumpets tooting in the background, and maybe some falling snowflakes or a cartoon bluebird hovering over them.
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Why go to all that trouble only to leave said toast rabbit discarded outside Tooting Broadway station for the pigeons to ransack?
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Initially I was praying, studying, and performing 'Nuttah,' so I was doing the call to prayer at my masajid [mosque] in Tooting.
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As you move north from Tooting Broadway, and then off the main streets, the houses — mostly late Victorian or Edwardian — grow larger.
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He was sighted in Utah trying to draw attention to himself by cynically tooting the Democratic dog whistle, calling Trump a racist.
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He walked back toward the Tooting Broadway tube station, stopping every minute or so to shake hands, or to pose for a selfie.
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Instead of tooting your horn at every single success (icky), identify specific achievements or successes that support a goal you're striving to achieve.
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"You're paying for the name" at other supermarkets, said Lucy Deacon, a 27-year-old who was shopping at the Aldi in Tooting.
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The area's ability to evoke urban nostalgia is perhaps why Mr. Khan's childhood in Tooting featured so prominently in his early campaign addresses.
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Since then we've grown, conceiving tiny content babies that have grown into leading industry voices (see us, here—Noisey—recklessly tooting our own horn).
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During this time, Khan also represented the Tooting area as a Labour party Councilor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006.
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In the May 2005 general election he moved to the national stage after winning the vote to become the Member of Parliament for Tooting.
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Tooting your own horn may be uncomfortable for you, but if you want to earn more, you need to demonstrate why you deserve to.
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"Automakers aren't as good as technology companies in tooting their own horns," Tony Trippe, principal author of the report, told Reuters in an interview.
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At the Lidl in Tooting, stacks of vegetable boxes run down the middle of the store, while bright orange signs overhead advertise price cuts.
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Two weeks before the election, speaking in the House of Commons, Cameron accused Suliman Gani, Khan's former imam in Tooting, of supporting the Islamic State.
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But they're not tooting their horn about it, which seems a little odd, since the whole point of these things is to market Apple Music.
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Over the silence of an evening without traffic, the clanging of metal, the tooting of horns and the popping of firecrackers reverberated across the city.
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As even the briefest exposure to Dhaka's cacophonous parade of tinkling cycle rickshaws, tooting three-wheelers and honking SUVs reveals, this is a country of bottlenecks.
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The fifth of eight children, Mr. Khan was born in Tooting, South London, to recent immigrants from Pakistan, and grew up in a public-housing project.
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Tooting is part of the borough of Wandsworth (London has thirty-three boroughs, each with its own elected council), which was heavily dominated by the Conservatives.
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The great thing is it seems to foster a lot more trust and celebration among the group than if you are always tooting your own horn.
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But their bark is mighty — which is perhaps why many people apparently want to replace their loud, tooting car horns with the sound of a duck quacking.
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Trump has two complaints about Cabinet members: Either they're tooting their own horns too much, or they're insufficiently effusive in praising him as a brilliant diplomat, etc.
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Current job: Member of Parliament for Tooting, in South London, since 2005; was minister of state for transportation from 2009 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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He served around 60 people every month until the venue closed, but will soon open a new place in Tooting Broadway, in the south of the city.
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Of the 16,239 Tooting residents counted in the most recent census (2011), nearly half were born outside Britain and 53 percent identified as mixed race or nonwhite.
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It must be said that the Tooting Arts Club's deftly, uh, executed stunt of a show, which originated in London, delivers on its ingenious, if limited, objective.
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The book, published around 1963, speaks to Finlay's interest in tooting tugboats, which in turn reflects his fascination with the sounds of words regardless of their meaning.
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Last year, he won his Tooting seat for a third straight term and offered lukewarm support to Jeremy Corbyn, the new left wing leader of the U.K. opposition.
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In retirement, Khan's father, Amanullah, became a muezzin at the Balham Mosque, in Tooting, the scrappy, polyglot South London neighborhood where the Mayor grew up and still lives.
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When Sadiq Aman Khan was born, in 1970, the family lived on the Henry Prince Estate, a housing project in Earlsfield, a mile or so northwest of Tooting.
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Alex: I had to end things with this girl because she lived in Tooting Bec, in south London, and no one would take us there in a cab.
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NOEL WILLIAMS, 0003, SOUTH LONDONA former heroin and crack dealer I was selling heroin and crack on my estate in Tooting from the age of 2000 to 228.
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Tooting was a safe Labour seat, and in early 2004 Khan was among more than a hundred candidates to replace the outgoing M.P., Tom Cox, in the next election.
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He would cross the road to avoid skinheads in bomber jackets, members of the National Front, a far-right organization that had a strong presence in Tooting and Earlsfield.
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The Japanese do not go around tooting their own horn; when foreigners mention the island nation it is usually to rave about a great holiday or a curious pastime.
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Nonetheless, it seems the MP for Tooting is comfortably ahead of Zac Goldsmith, his thoughtful but posh Tory rival—by 45% to 35%, according to a recent poll by YouGov.
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Nora Mackay, 15, a student at Graveney School in Tooting, south London, said her school's administration had discouraged students from attending the protest, "but everyone is here anyway", she said.
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The risks of Trump-distraction are great, because the 45th president is such a spectacle—a tooting, puffing, brass-and-steam-whistle commotion liable to draw all gazes, all the time.
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Supporters of Turkmen and Sunni Arab candidates paraded through the city center on Thursday, tooting car horns and waving flags, but no such fanfare was seen in the quieter Kurdish neighborhoods.
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You'd have to imagine one of Rioux's parents is probably tooting the thing, which brings us to the real question at hand: How did their son end up in this league?
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In British newspapers, Tooting is sometimes referred to as "the new Shoreditch" in reference to the slick East London neighborhood that was also, once upon a time, down on its heels.
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There's nothing wrong with tooting your own horn a bit when you hit a number like 2359 million, and that's what Microsoft did this morning to kick off its Build developer conference.
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In always tooting his own horn, Trump is a familiar American type: the eternal salesman, a hustler who won't take no for an answer and will say anything to close a deal.
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Her roles included a trumpet-tooting waif in "La Strada," a prostitute in "Nights of Cabiria," and a housewife visited by fantasies in Fellini's first color feature, "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965).
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Still, it's hard not to see Brexit and Mr. Trump as populist repudiations of what Mr. Khan stands for, symbolically, as a Tooting-born "son of a Pakistani bus driver"-turned-mayor.
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In the late '2208s, the area entered Britain's collective consciousness in the form of Wolfie Smith, the protagonist of the wildly popular BBC comedy series "Citizen Smith," which was set in Tooting.
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LONDON — At the vast Sainsbury's grocery store in south London's Tooting Broadway neighborhood, a basket of milk, eggs, bread, cornflakes and butter will cost shoppers four pounds and 252 pence, or about $21.
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Nvidia has certainly been tooting the horn of this technology, but there have been some doubts whether this is just another technology that's still a few years out from popular adoption amongst game developers.
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After regaining his Tooting seat in 2010, and with his party now in opposition, Khan then set about running the successful campaign to appoint Ed Miliband as the next leader of the Labour party.
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This is a shift from Microsoft tooting its own horn every chance it gets to show how innovative it is; it's a humble new company with a more holistic vision of a connected world.
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Dr. Rosena Allin-Khan, a Labour member of Parliament for Tooting, released her own ad inspired by the movie in late November in which she is depicted convincing a Conservative voter to support her.
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That number brings Tooting in line with Greater London, just 45 percent of which identifies as "white British" — down from 58 percent in 2001, and compared with 80 percent for broader England and Wales.
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In the film, the sweet-potato vendor has company: the garbage collector swinging a hand bell; the knife sharpener tooting a pan flute; the honey seller hollering as if calling for a lost dog.
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In Tooting, Khan stood on a small table plastered with red-and-yellow placards to fire up a crowd of about a hundred Labour activists penned into the narrow courtyard of a local business center.
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When the Dominican Republic went undefeated during the 2013 W.B.C., its fans made cavernous Marlins Park in Miami feel more crowded than usual with the tooting of horns, waving of flags and beating of drums.
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Celebrations broke out immediately after the final whistle of Sunday's match in the heart of the Russian capital, with cars tooting their horns and fans gleefully dancing in the streets, bringing traffic to a stand-still.
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That old adage about "tooting" has given beans a bad reputation, but look past it and you'll realize that the bean is the humble star of the bulk bin, the can aisle, and the pantry shelf.
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For the sake of journalism, I bucked up and asked bloating expert Tamara Duker Freuman — MS, RD, and the author of The Bloated Belly Whisperer — questions about tooting, burping, and pooping in order to relieve trapped gas.
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Tooting has been settled since Roman times, but it was little known until the 17th and 443th centuries, when an influx of Huguenots — French Protestants fleeing religious persecution — arrived and set up shop as hatters and dyers.
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Mr. Khan was born at St. George's Hospital in Tooting in 2672, the fifth of eight children, seven boys and a girl, in a family of Pakistani immigrants that came to London shortly before Mr. Khan's birth.
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But, for the moment, he's in full flow remembering his formative years as an only child—of Indian-South African (mom) and Iraqi (dad) parentage—raised by his mother in working class Tooting in the 1970s and 1980s.
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He will reinforce the awesomeness of the presidency and how humbled he is to have this responsibility, while at the same time tooting his own horn that he is and will be the most successful president since Reagan.
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Evidence shows that tooting your own horn doesn't help you get a job offer or a board seat, and when employees bend over backward to highlight their skills and accomplishments, they actually get paid less and promoted less.
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This immersive Tooting Arts Club production, a transfer from London that's been playing in New York since February, situates the action of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's well-loved and lyrically dexterous musical in a functioning pie shop.
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In Tooting, not far from the Baital Futuh mosque, apartheid-like episodes of discrimination in which Ahmadi are refused employment by other Muslim businesses or not served food in restaurants have been widely reported by members of the community.
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He insisted that the drivers hadn't been honking at us but had been tooting hello to people they knew; it turns out that Bermudians use their horns with the friendly abandon of a politician waving from a parade float.
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At an election event at the Tooting Islamic Centre, the Conservative candidate, Mark Clarke, who is mixed race, had to be locked in a room for his own protection, after being mistaken for Butt; Butt was advised to stay away altogether.
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In Stephen Sondheim's 1979 mid-career masterpiece, "Sweeney Todd" (a Tooting Arts Club production, at the Barrow Street, under the direction of Bill Buckhurst), the title character's misanthropy drives some of the plot, but it is not a cynical work.
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So delicious that the first time I ever had one, in a cafe in Tooting back in the late 90s, I insisted on going all the way back the very next day for more, before breaking 80 percent of them in my rucksack home.
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You will ride the bus in an arc, across the Thames River to Tooting: the southwestern neighborhood where Mr. Khan was born and grew up, attended school and mosque, served as a member of Parliament and still lives, with his wife, a lawyer, and two young daughters.
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Yikes Moore can't resist tooting his own horn from time to time (at one point, he plays a 9-1-1 call in which Moore is apparently described as a "weapon"), and he gets in a couple of showy stunts, including a half-hearted attempt at a citizen's arrest.
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On the terraced Victorian streets of SW16, Mr Khan was just "Sadiq", the guy from the neighbouring constituency; the machine politician who had made Tooting—a mix of hard-up estates and comfortable suburbs—relatively safe for Labour when a lesser practitioner might have lost it to the Conservatives.
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"I like Bernie, but I'm just afraid him tooting his socialist horn so much is going to hurt him," said Karen Griffin, 66, a volunteer for the local Democratic Party here who remains undecided about which alternative to Sanders she will vote for in Saturday's South Carolina primary.
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Gomez, a 36-year-old center who was the N.H.L.'s top rookie in the 1999-2000 season, had two assists for the Hershey Bears in that game, a 22012-213 win over the Syracuse Crunch here on Saturday, and the sellout crowd of 230,227, including dozens of children tooting vuvuzelas, went home happy.
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Dark Tory warnings about his sympathies looked paranoid when set against his broadly liberal record: the MP for Tooting had supported gay marriage (for which he received death threats), fought to keep a local pub open and had condemned recent incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour with a vigour conspicuously unmatched by its leadership.
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This eight-episode series, written by Dan Franck, is a game of spot-the-trope: the brooding, smoky title sequence (practically a parody of the one from "True Detective" Season 1), the cocaine-tooting protagonist ("Vinyl"), the ambitious young female web reporter ("House of Cards"), the carefully art-directed breasts (pick a show, really).
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Letter from Europe LONDON — With a blend of rose-glow nostalgia and incredulity, some baby boomers of a certain vintage here recall vacations in Europe long ago when the sight of a rare British license plate on the arrow-straight roads of northern France inspired much waving and tooting of horns in mutual recognition.
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That suggests, perhaps, that for half the population, nostalgia is defined more by a hankering for a go-it-alone Britain to regain a possibly apocryphal notion of self-reliance outside the European Union than by any recollection of shared history — and certainly not by tooting car horns or people with very long memories.
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Five people were left trapped inside the tram after it came off its tracks in a tunnel near Sandilands tram station at about 6 AM. Three of those people are freed, but it's believed that two people remain trapped as of 1 PM. Ambulances took 51 people to St George's Hospital in Tooting and Croydon University Hospital, some of whom are seriously injured.
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And in the fall, he backed a grass-roots campaign for a historic plaque to memorialize the one-time Tooting resident Sidney Lewis, the youngest British soldier to serve in World War I — joining up at age 12 and fighting in the Battle of the Somme, before his mother tracked him down and arranged for the Army to send him home.
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This throng was increased by drivers who left their milk wagons, their newspaper wagons, by men on their way to work, by taxicab chauffeurs, by streetcar conductors, and by many other folk who had heard the tooting of sirens in their neighborhoods and who arose from their beds to find out just what was the latest event of a day that will be marked forever in history.
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Some aspects have remained fairly stable: Spain, Belgium, and Holland are still the main arrival points for cocaine from South America, and cocaine consumption remains relatively high in Europe compared to the rest of the world, especially in the heavy tooting nations of Spain and the UK. But in terms of trafficking routes into the continent, much like the global drug scene as a whole, it's a story about diversification and proliferation.
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