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Following a jail stint for assault and theft, Mike gets a probation officer, a room at a hostel and a cook job at a shabby hotel.

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They have been losing finalists in the past two European Championships, while their record of a semi-final and a quarter-final in the past two World Cups is not too shabby either.

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"I mean there's been a general poor level at the moment. I thought the decision on Dewsbury-Hall was a really shabby decision."

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Beyond the shabby Soviet-era blocks of Chisinau city suburbs, a short drive leads to field upon field lined with grape vines.

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The young couple fall into lust, then love, over beers in a Latin American cowboy bar, Uyghur street food and then in a shabby basement apartment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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