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The entertain ments had been set up out of doors in front of the house.
Wole Soyinka - Prose 1986
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One area where I feel we can make significant improve - 'ments is in combatting highly profitable commercial crime activities, such as the illicit drug trade, which are organized and operated like large businesses.
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Basically what I was getting at in both of my earlier comments is that even for a TV journalist — heck, even for the Today show — Matt Lauer’s about as lightweight as they come, so for Tom Cruise of all people to slap him around, and to do it so badly, is pretty scummy.
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The money had been lent, but I wanted to make a good investment for you, and I thought there was nothin 'so good as Gov'ments "----
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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Hopefully Dean White teaching Alternate Elements will be the first step in dismantling Stotzky-ments.
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Our data do not allow us to understand whether the different allocation decisions are due to different preferences, teaching or service assign - ments, or other factors.
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He said that such develop ments risked plunging Lebanon into a new round of sectarian strife and that the U. N.'s investigation should be replaced by a purely Lebanese investigation to ensure fair treatment.
U.S. Woos Syria in Mideast Peace Push Jay Solomon 2010
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These endorse- ments were important, FIFA officials say, because they helped Qatar establish its legitimacy within FIFA and connections to executive committee members.
Qatar's World Cup Spending Spree Matthew Futterman 2011
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Martha Swope Rehearsing 'Move ments for Piano and Orchestra' with Suzanne Farrell, who was replacing the pregnant Diana Adams, and Balanchine in 1963.
An American Apollo Laura Jacobs 2011
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Oil markets have watched develop ments in the Middle East closely in recent weeks, worried that unrest in Egypt that toppled the country's president, Hosni Mubarak, could interrupt oil transit via the Suez Canal or spread to major crude-oil exporters.
Crude Rises on Mideast Tensions Jerry A. DiColo 2011
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