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  • Her neurosurge­on said that he never believed in the power of friendship or encouragem

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • I don't see anything here but an encouragem ­ent for employers to avoid actually having to hire anyone, pay benefits or make any commitment ­s to people, because of the glut of people needing work.

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  • I do in a pticuler manner referre the care of my Lord Bellamont's encouragem* to you, who I hope will answer the character I haue given of him in my publick letter; and I haue in a pticuler manner recomended you to my lord, haue told him he may intirely trust you, and how fitt you are for the best employment vnder him.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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