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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

  • It does-it does because, as I say, the Island base must be kept inviolate.

    Britain and Canada—Brothers In Arms 1942

  • 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.

    All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

  • 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.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • 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.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    The New York Observer - 2010

  • 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:

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • This is what the Left does-it bails out and creates misery and despair.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • 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

  • 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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