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Executives and investors of Exide Technologies, the firm that has owned a spectacularly polluting battery recycling plant in Vernon, should be bowing down to the American regulatory and legal systems right about now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

“He had everything handed to him. . . . Everything had to be about him — me, me, me, why aren’t you bowing down to me?”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2020

Stefan de Vrij put them in front with a header that defied physics, bowing down to shin height to divert a corner across his own body and over Gianluigi Donnarumma.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2020

I am bowing down, I'm on my knees.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2019

If you were a bird, you could imagine bowing down to him.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt


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