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The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.
The cities are busy and over populated.
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Sad organ music is suddenly replaced by an upbeat, jazzy The owner opens the drawer and takes the package.
The owner wants to give the package to someone.
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The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric.
Reagan cut big government in half.
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In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.
There was a study that asked teen-age girls if they liked a painting better by a local artist.
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The development of Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 is long overdue, and I for one would like to offer my services as a volunteer beta tester.
I would like to offer my services as a beta tester for Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 which has been long overdue.
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The idea, Leger claimed, was to prove that machines and fragments of them, that ordinary manufactured objects, have plastic possibilities.
Machines will soon able to move completely harmoniously
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Scientists were once ostracized for holding religious beliefs but can now worship without embarrassment.
Scientists would previously hide their religious sentiments.
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This triathlon kills Churchill, who wins the defeat-totalitarianism contest but flunks the liberation-and-justice contest.
The liberation-and-justice and defeat-totalitarianism contests were won by Churchill.
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If NBC wanted to clone its sitcoms, you think it could aim higher than Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth , says USA Today 's Matt Roush.
NBC typically clones its sitcoms ideas.
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Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.
The demand side thinking was used last week as well.
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But you could very well make the opposite argument.
You could argue the other side.
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American Justin Leonard's 45-foot birdie putt on the 17 th hole set off a celebration on the course before his European opponent finished playing.
Justin Leonard is an American golfer.
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In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand declares that [t]here is nothing unconventional about this story.
Louis Menand is a critic for published books.
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In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.
He delivered a speech to endorse someone a spot in public office next to him.
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It's like campaign-finance reform--the people who control it are products of the system, says online voting evangelist Marc Strassman.
Marc Strassman discourages voting online.
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Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something.
All the surges and stumbles will matter in the fall and winter.
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Fischel is also the author of The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs.
Various Ivy League colleges are partnering with for-profit companies for their online offerings.
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Unless you can go back in time, cutting the tax rate on existing capital gains cannot possibly increase investment in productive resources.
The investment in productive resources will not be positively affected by cutting the capital gains tax.
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For years the store has declined to sell stickered music, i.e., pop songs whose lyrics are too saucy for your mall.
The store felt that pop songs with suggestive lyrics should not be sold in their establishment.
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The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now.
Saying I don't want a divorce because of how long I was married was definitely the worst one.
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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.
No one has ever voted for this Miss America.
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Later in the piece, Brill writes that Schmidt and another reporter declined all comment on their sources.
Schmidt and the reporter actually took all comments on their sources.
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The Kodak-Fuji case was, as innumerable press accounts have pointed out, the most important case to come before the WTO in its two years of existence.
Press accounts still regard the Kodak-Fuji case as the most important after the WTO was created.
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It runs several new pictures of Lewinsky, including two that are embarrassingly revealing.
A new tell all book of Monica Lewinsky includes many new pictures including two embarrassing ones.
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We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices.
Everyone likes the new version of the email auto-delivery systems.
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That fragmented system without oversight had its deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills).
The broken project was run with no supervision.
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(Quayle--that tax-and-spend liberal--would set it at a whopping 19 percent.)
That politician would set it at a surprising figure.
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Many of the qualities attributed to Clinton's women also describe his mother, Virginia Kelley.
Clinton does not have a mother.
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Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.
Serb cities might be offered aid from the White House if the oppose Slobo.
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He should mind his own lesson.
He should focus on his own lesson and not the lessons of others.
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Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.
The White house wanted Serbian Cities to offer support to Slobo.
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For those who look into the future and are concerned, there are some fundamental What can be done?
Nothing can be done about the future.
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This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.
This is mentioned way too often throughout the 1999 edition.
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In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss.
Chernomydrin was fast paced and full of spice.
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A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the pri...
Feminists enjoy the works of art, especially the strong nudity.
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A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
A story says that there of evidence evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production and terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
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A story says tourism is destroying the Chicago blues scene.
The time points are months apart.
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The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .
War criminals were not aware of the detaining before the Washington Post reported on it.
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Didn't anyone remind them that Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan?
He wanted to cut taxes by 50%.
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Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.
He isn't well equipped to achieve, and possibly is not inclined to either.
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D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, part-time congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well.
D'Amato and Schumer aren't allies
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By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet.
According to your calculations, it went to 479 feet.
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And the occasional drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages.
Men need more than women to take time far from their partners
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So we call impotence erectile dysfunction, baldness hypotrichosis, and so on.
Baldness and hypotrichosis refer to different conditions.
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Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!
My wife almost fainted when she seen me castigated in public on the internet.
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This is a political as well as military project.
As a military project this is political.
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The first lies in the assumption that all three-second periods are worth the same.
There is a preconceived notion that all three-second periods have the same rules.
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This brief period may have been the most fertile of his career.
Having a productive career is hated by most indivduals.
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Here was an obviously experienced man coming into this young upstart's company, probably extremely well-dressed and with credentials earned before the CEO was even born.
He was younger than the owner.
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Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.
AT&T hired married couples.
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I did not plagiarize.
In no instance did I ever credit another's work as my own.
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An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television.
The article dips into cynical humor from the 1970s.
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This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.
The only upside to the Lewinsky scandal was its resultant sex policy.
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On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips.
On the picnic table sit three terra-cotta pots of deep-red species tulips.
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In a way, it's Bradley's fault.
Bradley is entirely free from any fault.
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Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.
Spike Lee needed a high GPA to get into Morehouse College.
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He has threatened to veto the five remaining appropriations bills in the 2000 budget because of Republicans' proposed cuts in social programs.
He was in a position of power
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Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress.
The clerk always wore pants.
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There's more good stuff in Briefing, including Explainer, The Week/The Spin, and Slate
The briefing has more good stuff in it.
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Now economists are pointing out the unfairness of subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors while refusing to do the same for other professions, such as economists.
Economists believe it's unfair to subsidize the reduction of the number of doctors while not doing the same to other professions.
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But on all these, the basic principle is the same.
The principle is unchanging.
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Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again.
Davey and Goliath are both characters who perform.
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So the first choice should be read as being between the certainty of being rich and a possibility of being rich.
The first choice was being interrupted incorrectly.
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But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle.
There is only one way to fail in romance.
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On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence.
There was a lack of knowledge that was hidden by self-confidence among the Harvard Square respondents.
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The paper's art critic compared the exhibit to unprocessed sewage and said that if Emin wins the prize, as she very well might, her victory will testify not to the vitality of British art but to a campaign of promotion so brazen that it has left even the cynical London art world awestruck.
The art critic at the paper hated the exhibit and was not pleased about Emin.
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The rules have indeed changed.
The rules can be upheld in a court of law.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.
Just because one day racial discrimination might not exist, black men still might not be in the top 12.
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When I think of someone like Tolly Greenberg, I think of my grandpa Ben, he writes.
The grandparent imagines someone jotting down stories about him.
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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
It was easy for them to ignore the few bits of propaganda that were found in the scripts, as no one took them seriously.
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Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.
It makes sense to think of the Old Testament as being from beings from outspace.
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In a recent op-ed article in the New York Times , the theologian Michael Novak argued that a new appreciation for, and sensitivity to, religious matters was stirring everywhere.
Michael Novak received his BA in theology at Princeton.
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Are we talking about dozens of people or thousands?
It's more likely that the number is closer to the thousands.
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Have the threats to our security doubled since then?
Threats are guaranteed to have been doubled.
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Besides denying reproductive freedom to women, such efforts would increase the number of children born and reared in impoverished single-parent families.
Single-parent families raise impoverished children.
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What a country should not apologize for is a basically sound foreign policy.
A country should not feel apologetic about having a sound foreign policy.
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A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line.
30 minutes later, Jackie Kennedy finally came on the line.
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IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old.
Using the IRA account before retiring can produce tax benefits
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An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record.
Donald Trump has a well known philanthropic side.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write,
When I write of you I fall over to the ground.
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to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision,
I must be perfect.
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They celebrate the U.S. women's comparative innocence.
There are a number of other reasons that the US women are recognized.
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Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.
Eric Holder is going to obtain an investigation on the Baitgate
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The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about.
Starr's work is understood and cared about by Americans, but only a small part, which is the Flytrap investigation.
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If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
Kerr can be assured that the two books she reviewed, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
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If loans to ski resorts, fast-food chains, and the Bolivian government paid a slightly higher return than loans to a local small business or housing complex, then they had to be the more deserving use of capital.
Small businesses used the funds very well.
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After clicking your purchases into a shopping cart, you are directed to a secure Netscape server that will encrypt your credit-card information.
It is safe to shop on the website with your credit card.
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The machines, in comparison, seem fuzzy.
In contrast, the machines were unclear.
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To which host Tim Russert replied, Why won't you abide by the 11 th Amendment and stop criticizing George W. Bush?
Tim Russert likes George W. Bush.
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The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.
Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem operation in 1935.
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The Constitution requires only that a senator when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
The requirements for a state senator have been in the Constitution for quite a long time.
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They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.
The senator intends to raise a large amount of funding at the function.
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The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster.
A decrease in pricess will always lead to a huge economic disaster.
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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.
Miss America is a physically beautiful person.
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Oh, it often gets the least important things right, the facts, the small t truth.
It never gets the most important things right.
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This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's Praetorian Guard--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.
The secret service agree with this thought.
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He had a video camera attached to the ceiling, which recorded every move.
He was watching the video feed.
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The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power.
The number was simply that, just a number, it carried no special meaning.
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One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.
Barker prefers to direct dramatic movies
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(Surprisingly, outdoor air pollution is not to It's better for kids to play outside than inside.)
The children were kept indoors becasuse of the high outdoor air pollution today.
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