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When I wrote my book Bellwether, which is about where fads come from, and why everybody suddenly decides to start playing with hula hoops or start collecting Beanie Babies, my heroine had to be somebody who didn't automatically go along with fads, who thought things through for herself.
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour Presents: CONNIE WILLIS! tanita davis 2007
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Florida has been described as a Bellwether State and its unprecedented growth in the 20th century offers scholars an unparalleled opportunity to investigate pressing political, economic, social, and cultural issues.
Archivalia 2010
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Using your example of Connie Willis '"To Say Nothing of The Dog", yes, it's very different from her other books, but if you read "Bellwether", "Passages", even "The Doomsday Book" you'll see her in all of them.
Voice Lessons? 2007
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Telecom Equipment industry group and my "Bellwether" Indicators -- 5 Indices, 12 Sectors and 23 other high profile Companies.
5 Timely Valuations for Telecom Equipment - Seeking Alpha 2010
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Today's Alleged "Bellwether" Elections Aren't Bellwethers and Don't Say Much About Nat'l Politics digg
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David Sirota: Today's Alleged "Bellwether" Elections Aren't Bellwethers and Don't Say Much About Nat'l Politics
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Even by the grandiose standards of award statements, the Bellwether Prize is something of a prizewinner.
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Even by the grandiose standards of award statements, the Bellwether Prize is something of a prizewinner.
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"It's still cumbersome, and it doesn't offer the accountability we need," says Andy Rotherham, co-founder of Bellwether Education Partners, a reform-minded education consultancy.
Column: How unions can be more than a legacy institution 2011
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Jo Walton reviews Bellwether by Connie Willis: "This is a comedy about the process of scientific discovery, and a comedy in the [Shakespearean] sense as well."
March 2009 2009
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