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tune-up

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1. I think it needs a tune-up.
2. When he gets up on stage to sing one of his out-of-tune solos, I get so nervous for him that I get sweaty palms.
3. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
4. As regards the R&D grants, Germany expressed the opinion that both projects qualified as industrial research and that their subsidisation to the tune of up to 50 % of the eligible cost was therefore compatible with the state aid rules applicable to R&D grants at the time the respective aid awards were made.
5. In the light of these data, the Commission would observe that, in view of the scale of its debt, France Télécom was forced to announce, on 21 March 2002, not only a major clean-up of its balance sheet through balance sheet provisions and asset disposals totalling EUR 27,2 billion (comprising disposals worth EUR 17 billion and exceptional provisions of EUR 10,2 billion), but also a substantial increase in the available cash flow to the tune of EUR 14 billion for the period 2002-05.
6. The French authorities have also referred to the reversal of the markets, which has led to successive debt plans not being implemented … In the course of 2000, the company thus financed its acquisitions massively on the bond and banking markets: France Télécom's total long-term loan issues reached €59 billion in 2000-01, and the “€15 G” credit line is itself no more than the partial refinancing of acquisition financing via bank loans set up in mid-2000 to the tune of €30 billion ... ’ (paragraphs 20 and 21 of the opening decision, unofficial translation).