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Having a guide dog allows a blind or visually impaired individual to experience the possibilities of life, not the limitations.
A guide dog allows the blind or visually impaired to experience a better life, not limit it.
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AMC’s Quiet Water Canoe Guide: Maine offers a chance to experience unspoiled quiet places, to observe wildlife in their natural habitat, to paddle and completely unwind.
AMC's Quiet Water Canoe Guide: Maine offers unspoiled quiet places to observe wildlife, to paddle and completely unwind.
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The enclosed copy of Wildlife Watch highlights what is involved in the major campaigns we ’re currently conducting for wildlife ... and the challenges that lie ahead.
The copy of Wildlife Watch highlights what is involved in our campaigns for wildlife and the challenges ahead.
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I would think that the words grand and stretch would be known to more people than two of the words the author gives as being familiar ( chippy and hootch ).
I think the words grand and stretch would be more known than the words the author gives ( chippy and hootch ).
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Although I greatly enjoyed Richard Lederer's article, I fear that one of his paragraphs is a load of brass monkey balls.
I enjoyed Mr. Lederer's article, but one of his paragraphs is complete nonsense.
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Because the USDA’s slow-acting pesticide takes three days to kill, its victims will likely fly many miles from the poisoned fields, before falling to the ground.
Because the USDA’s slow-acting pesticide takes three days to kill, its victims will fly many miles before falling.
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RS. For more information about the Guide Dog Foundation, or to become a Guide Dog Foundation volunteer, visit our website at www.guidedog.org.
For more information about the Guide Dog Foundation or to volunteer, visit our website at www.guidedog.org.
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For the purposes of this survey, the Wall Street Journal will be counted as a separate and distinct publication from the Journal's editorial page, because, in essence, it is.
For this survey, the Wall Street Journal will be counted as a separate publication from the Journal's editorial page.
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It’s a difficult problem, because we have to fight the well-financed and powerful agri-business and research industries, but we do our best to protect the animals.
It’s difficult because we fight the agri-business and research industries, but we do our best to protect the animals.
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What has your support of our campers meant to them and what have they been able to accomplish because you care?
Due to your care and support, what have our campers been able to accomplish?
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P.P.S. Check out our website at www.outdoors.org for up-to-date information and hot tips on where to go, what to do, and what to take!
Check www.outdoors.org for information on where to go, what to do, and what to take!
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And your support will help sustain our innovative Audubon Refuge Keepers program, and maintain our own network of more than 100 wildlife centers and sanctuaries.
Your support will help the Audubon Refuge Keepers program, and maintain our network of wildlife centers and sanctuaries.
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Here is a game just made to while away the hours on a commuter train with your favorite author, a perfect place to hunt for Puzzling Pronouns.
Pass the time on the train with your favorite author hunting for Puzzling Pronouns.
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At Goodwill, Michael's counselors felt that his personable demeanor could be a major attribute and identified for him a possible job-match where his people skills could shine.
"At Goodwill, Michael's counselors felt that his demeanor could be an attribute for a likely job-match where his skills could shine."
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We’ll tell you where to go for outdoor fun and keep you informed of the crucial issues affecting our mountain environment.
We'll inform you of fun outdoor spots and of the issues affecting our mountain environment.
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As a member of World Wildlife Fund, you know that our efforts are essential to preserving the astonishing, yet desperately threatened diversity of life here on Earth.
As a member of World Wildlife Fund, our efforts are vital to preserve the diversity of life here on Earth.
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A tax-deductible gift from you now of less than a nickel a day can bring you into the ranks of the most influential and effective marine conservation organization operating today.
A gift of less than a nickel a day can bring you into the most influential and effective marine conservation organization.
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Regional chapters from Maine to Washington, D.C., play a key role in introducing you to the activities and opportunities of AMC membership.
Regional chapters across the east play a role in introducing you to activities and opportunities of AMC.
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This book appears to have been diligently researched and has much to recommend it as an adjunct to most libraries, public and private, large and small, general and specialized.
This book has been diligently researched and has much to recommend it as an adjunct to most libraries.
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So if we don’t act right now, Alaska’s snowy tundras will once again become bloody killing fields for wolves in America’s “ Last Frontier. ”
If we don’t act, Alaska’s tundra will become death fields for wolves in America’s “ Last Frontier. ”
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Shouldn’t you watch hawks and ravens soar below you at AMC’s Lakes of the Clouds mountain hut perched 5,000 ft. high on Mt. Washington’s slope?
Shouldn’t you watch hawks and ravens fly at AMC’s Lakes of the Clouds retreat on Mt. Washington’s slope?
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The only way we can continue to provide guide dogs, at no cost, to someone who is blind or visually impaired, is through your support.
The only way we can give guide dogs to those who are visually impaired is through your support.
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won a major court victory that closed thousands of square miles to U.S. longline fishing because of its threat to the survival of Pacific leatherback sea turtles.
Won a court victory that closed thousands of miles to U.S. fishing because of its threat to the survival of sea turtles.
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In this trousers category, Thompson must share the limelight with Coleridge by virtue of the line in Kubla Khan: As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing.
In this trousers category, Thompson must share the limelight with Coleridge by virtue of the line in Kubla Khan.
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Join in this wonderful event and help Jameson Camp continue to provide the year-round support that gives kids a chance to create dreams.
Join this event and help Jameson Camp provide year-round support which allows kids to create dreams.
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In all, nine birds on the Federal threatened or endangered lists and 11 birds on Audubon’s WatchList of imperiled species could be found in these killing fields.
Nine birds on the Federal lists and 11 birds on Audubon’s WatchList could be found in these killing fields.
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I hope, too, that they remind you just how much danger these beautiful marine species and their ocean habitats are in right now!
I hope they remind you of the danger these marine species and ocean habitats are in!
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But I also hope you will help us keep alive the promise behind these labels and become the newest member of National Wildlife Federation today.
I also hope you will help preserve the promise behind the labels and join the National Wildlife Federation.
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Or, more slap-stickish, E.F. Benson's action picture in Lucia in London ( Chapter 8 ): Georgie stepped on a beautiful pansy.
Or, more comic, E.F. Benson's Lucia in London's action shot: Georgie steps on a lovely pansy.
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So let me urge you to do your part by supporting a group that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “ one of America’s most respected and influential conservation organizations.
So I urge you to support a conservation group that the San Francisco Chronicle calls "most respected and influential."
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When you do, you’ll extend your commitment as an esteemed partner with WWF -- the largest and most effective international conservation group in existence.
When you do, you'll extend your commitment as a partner with WWF -- the largest international conservation group.
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And Audubon will draw upon its century-long track record of highly effective conservation work to make a real difference in other key areas:
And Audubon will draw upon its highly effective conversation work to make a difference in key areas.
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Please sign your Citizens’ Advisory Ballot to demonstrate to our Alaska allies that you’re behind them; and send an urgent donation today to help them win this effort.
Please sign your Citizens' Advisory Ballot to demonstrate to our allies you're behind them, and send an urgent donation.
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Also in Newsweek , an article about David Helfgott, subject of the movie Shine : It says he is a wretched pianist.
Also in Newsweek, an article about David Helfgott: It says he is a wretched pianist.
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Cohen points out that movie theaters' seemingly perverse pricing mechanism is also used in a few other branches of the entertainment business:
Cohen points out that movie theaters' crazy pricing is also used in other entertainment business'.
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Also in Newsweek , a piece pegged to the movie Volcano says that volcanoes threaten 500 million people worldwide, but not the citizens of Los Angeles.
In Newsweek, a piece says the film Volcano says volcanoes threaten 500,000,000 worldwide, but not LA citizens.
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Time explains why the anti-sweatshop movement is growing on college campuses: The AFL-CIO has jump-started the protests by lavishing student activists with internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions.
The AFL-CIO sends students to poor countries for internships, and this has helped the anti-sweatshop movement grow on college campuses.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center says the CCC is "the reincarnation of the racist white Citizens Councils" that battled integration in the 1950s.
The Southern Law Center says the CCC is "the reincarnation of the racist white Citizens Councils".
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For the second time in a week, a NYT front-pager about Congress' performance this year is brutally frank, appearing under the headline "HEALTH INDUSTRY SEES WISH LIST MADE INTO LAW."
Yet again, NYT speaks out on Congress' performance with a front page story: "HEALTH INDUSTRY SEES WISH LIST MADE INTO LAW."
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Miss Norman said the remark, which she insists she never made, held her up to ridicule, mockery, and contempt, and conformed to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."
Miss Norman said the remark held her to ridicule, mockery, contempt, and to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."
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I am prepared to go Lincoln one better and to assert that you could not prove Euclid's proposition to be false even by calling him a Microsoft employee.
I am prepared to assert that you could not disprove Euclid's proposition even by calling him a Microsoft employee.
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"Let's go over there and get Tiger's divot," I heard a fan say one day, referring to the tiny chunk of grass and dirt that Woods had scraped from the fairway on one of his shots.
"Let's go over there and get Tiger's divot," I heard a fan say, referring to the grass and dirt that Woods scraped from the fairway.
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The WP front reports that high tech companies appear to have prevailed in the long-simmering debate about whether or not national security concerns should prevent them from exporting software that encrypts electronic communications.
The WP front reports that high tech companies have prevailed in the long-simmering debate about national security concerns.
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Prudie isn't sure how to square your complaints with all the news stories about grade inflation and college-level courses such as "The Structure of the Soap Opera" and "The History of Beads."
Prudie is unsure how to resolve issues with stories about grade inflation & courses like "Structure of the Soap Opera" & "History of Beads."
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Yes, the story in Lemann is well researched, indeed impressively so, but the issues are left hanging without sustained analysis, which would have been possible.
Yes, the Lemann story is well researched, but the issues are cited without sustained analysis, which was a possibility.
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3. " 'More than anything else, Silicon Valley is on the 50-yard-line of the political spectrum,' Mr. Randlett of Technet said."
Silicon Valley is on the 50-yard-line of the political spectrum, Mr. Randlett of Technet said.
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A study conducted at Oregon State University (where the maraschino cherry was invented) about 25 years ago found that blue was almost universally disliked as a food color.
A study at Oregon State University found that blue was almost universally disliked as a food color.
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Forget about saving the whales: Time reports that the overfishing of sharks for fins (an Asian delicacy) and cartilage (mistakenly thought to prevent cancer) has brought several species to low population levels.
Time reports that the overfishing of sharks for fins and cartilage has brought several species to low population levels.
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Participants were invited to devise a sequentially trumping topical triad--rock, paper, scissors--along these lines: NATO, Milosevic, Albanian refugees (NATO planes crush Milosevic, Milosevic drives out refugees, refugees give NATO fits).
Participants were invited to devise a sequentially trumping topical triad: (NATO planes crush Milosevic, Milosevic drives out refugees, refugees give NATO fits).
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A Palestinian girl suffering from cancer says she was cured after Mother Teresa appeared in her dreams and said, "Child, you are cured."
A Palestinian girl with cancer says she was cured after Mother Teresa appeared in her dreams.
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( Frosh , by the way, seems to have come from the German for "frog"--it was a 19 th -century nickname for members of an entering class of German university students.)
Frosh (German for frog) was the 19th century nickname for members of an entering class of German university students.
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No visible wedding ring could imply availability for dating or recklessness at the poker table or that it's time to break down and buy a decent television.
No visible wedding ring implies being single, recklessness at the poker table, or that it's time to buy a new TV.
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The Wall Street Journal 's "Washington Wire" reports that some twenty lawmakers who voted this week to restrict satellite exports to China had previously urged Clinton to export satellites there.
The "Washington Wire" reports that some 20 lawmakers who voted to curb satellite exports to China had urged Clinton to export them there.
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A nice ambiguous remark that participants would do well with, but it refers to too trivial a story, children of former officials--Bush/Dodd/Kennedy--going into the family business.
A nice ambiguous remark, but it refers to too trivial a story, children of former officials going into the family business.
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Later in the program, Russert interviews evangelical minister and former football star Reggie White, author of the conservative-values book Fighting the Good Fight (buy it here):
Russert interviews evangelical minister and former football star Reggie White, author of the book "Fighting the Good Fight".
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The Shopping Avenger will undoubtedly return to the sorry state of affairs at U-Haul in the next episode, but now on to this month's airline debacle.
The Shopping Avenger will return to the state of affairs at U-Haul, but now on to this month's airline debacle.
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"You may be interested to know, Harold, that a few Republicans, who are well situated, think McCarthy has gone far enough."
"You may be interested to know that a few Republicans, think McCarthy has gone far enough."
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Participants are invited to provide a postelection headline that, in a just universe, would run Wednesday in the media outlet of their choice.
Participants are asked to provide a postelection headline to show on the media outlet of their choice.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that when President Clinton recently visited players before a Washington-Seattle NBA game, Supersonic Greg Anthony drew cheers from teammates by asking when the capital gains tax cut takes effect.
The WSJ reports that when President Clinton visited players before an NBA game, Supersonic Greg Anthony drew cheers by asking when the capital gains tax cut takes effect.
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C. Apologetic tennis great Martina Hingis seems to resent her absent mother, although I've not actually seen her in a clinical setting.
Martina Hingis seems to resent her absent mother, although I've not seen her in a clinical setting.
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Restaurant entertaining is becoming fashionable, however, and Prudie would recommend that for you if that choice would not come from shame, and if you would have a better evening yourselves.
Restaurant entertaining is becoming fashionable, and Prudie recommends that if that choice isn't from shame, you would have a better evening.
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In other 80-year-old-recluse news, Simon & Schuster announced the impending publication of The Dream Catcher , the memoirs of Salinger's 43-year-old daughter, Margaret.
Simon & Schuster announced the impending publication of The Dream Catcher, the memoirs of Salinger's daughter, Margaret.
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Although all the coverage describes the last-minute legal maneuvering, no one explains how it was that this open-and-shut case took fifteen years to resolve.
Although the coverage describes the legal maneuvering, none explain how this open-and-shut case took years to resolve.
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3 Unbeknownst to the credulous public, the DSM is not truly a scientific document but the product of crude politicking and cynical compromises.
3. The DSM is not truly a scientific document but the product of crude politicking and cynical compromises.
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But before we get to the science, let me introduce a pet theory of mine: that there was an ancient link between the Northwest Indians and the Norsemen.
Let me introduce a theory of mine: there was an ancient link between Northwest Indians and Norsemen.
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The Washington Post goes local with a report that neither Democrat nor Republican candidates have come up with a workable solution to northern Virginia's traffic problems, a key issue in the state's upcoming legislative elections.
Washington Post reports that neither Democrat nor Republican candidates have solved northern Virginia's traffic problems.
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Liberal Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ) frames the weekend's dull center, imploring Janet Reno to get to the bottom of Chinagate by appointing an independent counsel to investigate campaign-finance violations.
Liberal Al Hunt asks Janet Reno to get to the bottom of Chinagate by appointing an independent counsel to investigate violations.
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Participants are invited to find a sentence in an actual publication that embodies conspicuous consumption and fatuousness better than the following, from last week's New York Times "Home" section:
Participants are invited to find a sentence that embodies conspicuous consumption and fatuousness better than the following, from last week's Times.
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I wore a black knit hatso I could be undistinguished in the warand carried a small bagso I could be mistaken for a doctor,
I wore a black hat so I could blend in in the war and had a small bag to look like a doctor.
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While Lindbergh's crossing certainly captured the public imagination (as some of today's balloonists have also), it did little to advance the technology of aviation.
Lindbergh's crossing captured the public's imagination, but it did little to advance aviation technology.
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WWW : Some guy on Fox TV that nobody ever heard of calls it "the hippest, funniest action movie of the summer."
Some guy on Fox TV calls it "the hippest, funniest action movie of the summer."
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You do not say suspected by whom . If the transgressor is called on the carpet by his wife, the Bible's admonition is the one to follow.
If the transgressor is accused by his wife, the Bible's admonition is the one to follow.
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One could argue that a passenger might have "personal" feelings about an airline after said airline messed with his head while he was traveling to his mother's funeral.
A passenger may have bad feelings about an airline that messed with his head while he was traveling to his mother's funeral.
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Near where I used to live in Australia, there is a road along the bottom of a cliff where a series of signs says:
Near my old home in Australia is a road at the bottom of a cliff where a sign says:
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The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy.
The idea that union members are being forced to help finance this union campaign is a Republican fantasy.
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There are many options for attacking the logic of this cosmological argument, and contemporary opponents of theism have tried them all.
Contemporary opponents of theism have used all options for attacking the logic of this argument.
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In a story that's sure to develop in the days ahead, the WP off-lead reports that U.N. investigators have evidence that before the Gulf War, Iraq put nerve gas into missile warheads.
The WP reports that U.N. investigators have evidence that before the Gulf War, Iraq put nerve gas into missile warheads.
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I quote from The Church Visible: The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the Roman Catholic Church , by James-Charles Noonan Jr., Page 395:
From The Church Visible: The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the Roman Catholic Church, by Noonan:
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4. "Malaysia finally lifted the capital controls it imposed in the wake of the drastic devaluation of its currency and the collapse of its economy last summer.
Malaysia lifted the capital controls it imposed in the wake of the devaluation of its currency and economy collapse.
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A line drawn in rainand clay and the roots of wild broom--behind it the makings of a city,beyond it rumours of a nation--by Dalkey and Kilternan and Balallythrough two ways of saying their names.
A line drawn in rain and clay and the roots of wild broom--behind it the makings of a city, beyond it rumors of a nation.
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How'd you like to be in the powder room with them when she and Linda Tripp bump into each other next time?
How'd you like to be in there when she and Linda Tripp bump into each other?
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Prudie hopes, by the way, that the recipient of the bagels and cream cheese is not also a friend of Sue's, because the cream cheese in the closet would be a disaster.
Prudie hopes that Sue's friend wont recieve the bagels and cream cheese, because the cheese in the closet would be a disaster
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I love the story you told about Doug Flutie's daughter Alexa looking at Michael Jordan and Mia Hamm in that "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" commercial and saying, "Who's the guy with Mia?"
I love your story about Doug Flutie's daughter looking at Michael Jordan and Mia Hamm in that commercial and saying, "Who's the guy with Mia?"
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2) Many of the poorer rural communities that have applied for the subsidy lack the high speed phone lines that make the Internet worthwhile, keeping them Internet have-nots.
Poorer rural communities that have applied for the subsidy lack the proper phone lines that make Internet worthwhile.
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Which of these is a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float from a proud corporate sponsor kids love, and which is one of the New York Public Interest Research Group's 20 Most Dangerous Toys?
Which is a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float from a corporate sponsor kids love, and which is of the NYPIRG's 20 Most Dangerous Toys?
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Starting at the Friedrich Hayek Scholar's Page, click Research resources--archives, societies, funding, web resources, etc. , which will lead you ...
At the Friedrich Hayek Scholar's Page, click Research resources which will lead you ...
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Time's profile of Trent Lott reaches the same conclusion as numerous earlier profiles of the Senate majority leader: Like Clinton, Lott is a compromiser.
Time's profile of Trent Lott reaches the same conclusion: Like Clinton, Lott is a compromiser.
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I'm reminded of Dilbert's boss, who was outraged to find that 40 percent of company sick days were being taken on Mondays or Fridays.
Dilbert's boss was outraged to find that 40% of sick days were being taken on Mondays or Fridays.
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In the '60s it happened to 95 percent of American boys; today it's down to 60 percent, and a policy just announced by the American Academy of Pediatrics is meant to make it happen even less.
In the 60s, it happened to 95% American boys; today it's down to 60% and a policy by the American Academy of Pediatrics makes it happen less.
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The facts fit the Panglossian economist's vision quite nicely: Emerging economies do typically run trade deficits, wages do rise with productivity, and actual experience offers no support at all for grimmer visions.
The facts fit the economist's vision: Emerging economies run trade deficits, wages rise with productivity, and experience offers no support for grimmer visions.
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"I have a very clear memory of the meeting," declares one central figure (Bill Clinton) in Washington's ongoing sexual and legal battles, "and I told the truth."
"I [remember] the meeting," says Bill Clinton in Washington's ongoing sexual and legal battles, "and I told the truth."
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Everybody fronts an illustration of Charlie Brown, in honor of yesterday's announcement that cartoonist Charles Schulz, aged 77 and ailing with cancer, will retire right after the first of the year.
Everybody fronts an illustration of Charlie Brown, in honor of yesterday's announcement that Charles Schulz, 77, ailing with cancer, will retire.
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And what fun if a youngster misunderstands the custom just a little and imagines she will grow up to marry Winnie the Pooh.
What fun when a youngster misunderstands and imagines she will marry Winnie The Pooh.
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[Chatterbox didn't have the heart to add that he thought There's Something About Mary was pretty funny, especially the joke about "the franks or the beans."
Chatterbox didn't add that he thought There's Something About Mary was pretty funny.
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According to the USAT "Snapshot," California, the top state for PC use, expects to have half of its home phone traffic be PC rather than voice by 2001.
California expects to have half of its home phone traffic be PC rather than voice by 2001.
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Letting slower white American runners into races just because they're white Americans is precisely analogous to letting blacks and Latinos with poor SATs and low grades into colleges just because they're blacks or Latinos.
Letting slower white Americans into races just because they're white is like letting blacks and Latinos with low SATs into colleges just because of their race.
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c) Clinton assumed they would find Willey and Lewinsky but also assumed Willey and Lewinsky would stay silent, because his women usually do.
Clinton assumed they'd find Willey & Lewinsky but assumed they would stay silent because they usually do.
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All the papers lead with weaker-than-expected Hurricane Bret, while continuing to front updates on relief efforts in the Turkish earthquake zone.
Papers lead with weaker Hurricane Bret, while continuing to front updates on relief efforts in Turkey.
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The slickness and pervasiveness of the campaign conceals one flaw: The message--that all drug use leads to disaster--is a baldfaced lie.
The the campaign conceals one flaw: The message--that all drug use leads to disaster--is a lie.
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Pace Hillary Clinton, the NYT points out that this legal conflict between the Starr and Jones camps shows that there's not a united anti-Clinton front.
The NYT points out the conflict between the Starr & Jones camps shows there's not a united anti-Clinton front.
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