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Shumlin, the former state Senate pro-tem, is an acerbic and witty liberal with a reputation for playing hard-ball politics.
Terry J. Allen: In Vermont, Shades of McCarthy Terry J. Allen 2010
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Laurie, sometimes we have days/weeks like that -- I call tem the valleys in between the mountains.
The Relief of a Science Textbook Lauri 2009
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The Mayor pro-tem is not heard on any of the tapes described to CBS-11 News, although the FBI posesses many others that have not been described.
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You seriously need to click and check it out — it’s like the sum of humanity’s subconscious fears as rendered in tempera by a six-year-old.
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It does give me an idea what people are adding to wikipedia, and that’s a lot of crap. but the system is such that a lot of crap gets deleted, too, so it all works out.
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“At its best, edited for the savviest readers,” the system is “a summary of the world — deeper, broader and more nuanced than anything ever available before.
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P.S. In good ol’ Civilization IV the ultimate economic system is … environmentalism.
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On the minus side, as KDrum points out, this means that our system is in an extremely precarious balance — it doesn’t take much of a shock to send the oil markets reeling.
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April 12, 2008 at 8:48 am mai kitteh used to lay in wait fr teh finches wut eattin teh nyger seeds dat fawls down…… teh bottm feedrs ai called tem
lolcat twin powers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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So for the next 17 days, Tom Daschle will be majority leader, Robert Byrd will be elected later this afternoon president pro tem, which is an honor that is reserved for the most senior member in charge.
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