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The network will be built around segments spotlighting the biggest, hottest, most engaging stories HuffPost is covering at any given moment and using them as the jumping-off points for conversations, commentary, and comedy.
Arianna Huffington: HuffPost + AOL: The First Year in Numbers Arianna Huffington 2012
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Those fourteenth-century travelers had a different reason and motivation to tell stories for their journey, but it was still a good jumping-off point for Eliza.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Allow it to be a jumping-off point for bigger and better things.
Lee Block: Hello, My Name is Divorce Lee Block 2011
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The network will be built around segments spotlighting the biggest, hottest, most engaging stories HuffPost is covering at any given moment and using them as the jumping-off points for conversations, commentary, and comedy.
Arianna Huffington: HuffPost + AOL: The First Year in Numbers Arianna Huffington 2012
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Union officials promised to use the protest here as a jumping-off point for rallies next week in about a dozen states where lawmakers are proposing to cut union pay and benefits, or curb collective-bargaining rights.
Wisconsin Democrats Keep on the Move Douglas Belkin 2011
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Allow it to be a jumping-off point for bigger and better things.
Lee Block: Hello, My Name is Divorce Lee Block 2011
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Which is ironic, because my jumping-off point is an article from Slate, written by Emily Yoffe, titled Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting.
The thrill of the chase ewillett 2009
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It would also be a good jumping-off point for discussion of world-building.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books That Should Be Assigned in School 2009
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She learned how to have an ongoing dialogue with her son, now 11, sometimes using news stories as a jumping-off point.
To Skip the 'Talk' About Sex, Have an Ongoing Dialogue Elizabeth Bernstein 2011
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Are these opening scenes, the jumping-off point into the story, deliberately echoing one another?
The Return of Dunk and Egg grrm 2010
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