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When England trudged off the field at Headingley, disappointment hung in the air for several reasons.

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“In the ‘morning’ the air is thick; it hangs in a clammy, damp mass that you can all but grasp with your hands.

The aborted deal also leaves Lukoil’s global network—a portfolio spanning major refineries in Europe, oil fields in the Middle East and gas stations around the world—hanging in the balance.

But “not when the funding of the federal government, and all the lives that are impacted by it, hang in the balance.”

Furthering the sickly mojo, Gustav wants to stage his version of the hanging in the very room where it happened.

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

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