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As an added fillip, the judge let it slip that Mr. Simon had been cut out of his parents' estates.

(In another 21st-century fillip the album's best song, "Shackler's Revenge," appeared first in a video game, Rock Band 2).

While the pictures will provide a much needed circulation fillip, the Vivienne and Knox special edition will not come close to Hello!'s all time best seller.

No matter how great a fillip the NBA has received in recent months, it has yet to fully scale the heights of before.

Germany, which itself struggled in the early euro years, can now spread its better fortunes more widely, argues Holger Schmieding, an economist at Berenberg Bank.Yet despite that fillip, the weak economies may continue to flounder.

Sometimes boosters even mention the fillip the games will give to Canada's athletes.What Mr Campbell and other supporters are really hoping for, however, is a replay of the success of Expo'86, the world-transport exhibition.

Even the crowds coming out of the feelgood fillip of the packed finals of the beach volleyball on Copacabana were a reminder of the corporatism that is hardwired into the Games.

Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.

And even with the fillip of the new poll, at nearly 63 he cut an oddly anachronistic figure on the station platform, bundled up in an overcoat and scarf despite the bright April sunshine.

India's software and China's hardware are poised to provide the fillip to the remarkable possibilities.

The demonstrators played a tape of bubbling cauldrons and vile belches, and the perfect fillip was the stench that hung in the air -- which was not even their idea, just dumb luck that a sewer crew was working nearby.