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That's what empathy does-it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor.
The Audacity of Hope Obama, Barack 2006
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It does-it does because, as I say, the Island base must be kept inviolate.
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If Mr. Iger seemed outwardly cool-and he almost always does-it had to be a tense night for him: Disney-owned ABC and Cablevision were locked in a contract standoff that threatened to prevent Cablevision subscribers from seeing the Oscars.
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Currency comes from the Latin word for "run" because that's what it does-it runs like a stream, circulating from hand to hand, lubricating commerce.
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In his time, Shakespeare used many of the same devices and conventions that wrestling does-it was baudy, there was an element of a morality play, there were villains and heroes.
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If Mr. Iger seemed outwardly cool-and he almost always does-it had to be a tense night for him: Disney-owned ABC and Cablevision were locked in a contract standoff that threatened to prevent Cablevision subscribers from seeing the Oscars.
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But there are other parts to managing a small business that you'd like to learn by listening to a skilled manager. does-it allows you to listen and learn as you do-it-yourself:
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This is what the Left does-it bails out and creates misery and despair.
Latest Articles 2009
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Rough Aunties, which won best feature at this year's Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, therefore does what almost no first-world documentary about the non-Western world successfully does-it allows the subjects themselves, as much as is possible, to harness and to own the film's action and message.
Missoula Independent 2009
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He stressed that it was Gibbon's style, his eloquence, memorable phrases, wry sense of humor, clarity that led to his work having the impact it did - "that is what style does-it has the Egyptian secret of the embalmers".
Ben Witherington 2009
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