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2. Bad behaviour is a sure-fire way of getting people's attention.

3. They soon learn that bad behaviour is a sure-fire way of getting attention.

4. In San Francisco, lilacs are a sure-fire conversation stopper.

5. A sure-fire hit on your turntable.

6. But this weekend, her sure-fire heartbeat demanded that she spend every moment possible with Lucy.

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13. Unfortunately, it's also a sure-fire way to embarrass yourself for months to come.

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15. A sure-fire way to mess up a working system is to accidentally delete some critical files.

16. One solution would be to make the cities more habitable, but a much more sure-fire way is cooking the books.

17. Their experts are not infallible, as when the World Bank boosted tourism in the 1960s as a sure-fire multiplier of development.

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26. Thus, the latest foreign acquisition by "India Inc.", as the country's private sector is known, is a sure-fire splash.