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[00:00]robe

[00:02]She even played the part, looking like a sea goddess

[00:05]with golden hair, dressed in an aqua gown with a lacy

[00:09]robe flecked with glitter.

[00:13]rod

[00:15]Just a few weeks before December's pre-budget report,

[00:20]Alistair Darling effectively called for the government to

[00:24]go faster in reducing borrowing again-made a giant rod

[00:28]for ministers' backs.

[00:31]rot

[00:33]The result, some authorities hypothesize, is that it may

[00:36]be more lucrative for some Calabrian landowners to let

[00:41]their harvests rot on the tree and collect the subsidies than

[00:45]to pay pickers.

[00:47]trot

[00:49]Manufacturers will use the show in Las Vegas to trot

[00:53]out the devices they hope will keep consumers opening

[00:56]their wallets, despite high unemployment.

[01:01]rub

[01:03]There is only one difference between an old man and

[01:06]a young one: the young man has a glorious future before

[01:09]him and old one has a splendid future behind him; and

[01:13]maybe that is where the rub is.

[01:16]tub

[01:17]As far as I am concerned, many models of washing

[01:20]machines don't allow the door to be opened if a small

[01:24]amount of water is left in the tub.

[01:27]ruby

[01:29]The reason we're celebrating the laser this year is that 50

[01:32]years ago, Theodore Maiman, a researcher at the Hughes

[01:37]Research Labs, built the first one, using a ruby crystal to

[01:42]produce a beam of red light.