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...So there is a question mark whether some of those people sort of head back to their smaller parties, whether they just sit on the couch, don’t bother to vote at all....
...Greg Boutle, BNP Paribas’ head of US equity and derivative strategy, said data suggested some investors were placing “volatility compression” trades, albeit carefully....
...There are no couch potato three-years-olds: if they’re not engaged, they’re physically off.”...
...“The first glimpse I get of my father he’s spread out on a leather couch in a pair of tighty-whities, which reassures me that nothing significant in the Lockwood household has changed since my departure...
...These people aren’t simply couch potatoes. Many now spend games sharing thoughts, jokes and emotions with other fans on social media....
...“I don’t want to be that guy that goes to work and comes home and sits on the couch and wonders where his dinner is,” Adam says. “That guy isn’t me.”...
...Later that afternoon, Bernanke’s inner circle of advisers, including both Warsh and Madigan, gathered on the leather couch and chairs in the chair- man’s ornate workspace overlooking the National Mall....
...Despite the renovations we have had done – I’m turning the basement into a cinema, for instance – our architects, Abby and Greg of Randall Architects, have helped us keep many of the original features....
...His outing to the restaurant was a rare one: he spends much of each day resting on a couch. His wife, Laurie, told me he had been saving his strength for this meeting....
...“That, along with other visionary things, has created a situation that’s pretty unique,” says Greg Higgins, a celebrated chef and proponent of locally sourced organic food....
...Mr Dyke’s challenge, according to one private equity executive not involved in his consortium, is that most institutional investors are like couch potatoes....
...Some felt the winner’s choice of a protagonist that resembled the archetypal couch potato would merely reinforce refuseniks’ prejudices against too much television....
...I like Hugh Laurie as Dr Greg House - to go back to a couch-potato critic’s catalysing moment - because he and his antic casting make anything seem possible: anything except that stardom, on whatever size...
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