Lovelle - the name of the fictional town in the simulation - was a replication of a town in France where the training exercise had been carried out in real life, said Col Law.

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Christine Baranski plays the part of Diane Lockhart, a name partner at the fictional law firm of Lockhart Gardner.

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Paton christened his fictional family Kumalo, a common enough name among Zulus, roughly the equivalent of Smith or Jones in America.

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With the victim's name yet to be released, news organizations have given her fictional names such as "Nirbhaya, " or Fearless One, and "Damini, " the name of a Hindi movie about a rape victim's fight for justice.

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The hero is a gaunt, ghostly-looking junkie called William Lee (Peter Weller) a name Burroughs often used to designate his fictional alter ego.

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Activist investors, then called corporate raiders, have been part of the American business environment since the 1980s, when the fictional Gordon Gekko attacked corporate boards and executive vice-presidents in the name of public shareholders.

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That fictional scenario is the best way to gauge its real-world opposite, a scheme whose very name--Bluetooth--appropriately calls to mind the more depressing aspects of dentistry.

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