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Typically, undergraduate institutions offer standard-fare golf tournaments and wine-tasting reunions — hoping to tap nostalgia and shake loose donations.
Alumni Relations 2009
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Unlike Lennon's standard-fare pop tracks, Ono's relied on beats that now sound positively prehistoric.
Lennon/Ono's 'Double Fantasy Stripped Down,' getting real and getting results Allison Stewart 2010
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Intelligent design, after all, is nothing more than standard-fare creationism gussied up to look like something it isn't - and even with its fancy accoutrements, it has never passed legal muster.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Creationism in New Hampshire: Attacking Science and Undermining Religious Freedom Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2012
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Intelligent design, after all, is nothing more than standard-fare creationism gussied up to look like something it isn't - and even with its fancy accoutrements, it has never passed legal muster.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Creationism in New Hampshire: Attacking Science and Undermining Religious Freedom Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2012
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At a March Senate hearing on the USDA budget, Sen. Susan Collins R., Maine hoisted a standard-fare brown-skinned spud in one hand and, in the other, a head of iceberg lettuce, which hasn't come under explicit federal scrutiny.
Spuds, on the Verge of Being Expelled, Start a Food Fight in the Cafeteria Jennifer Levitz 2011
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Which is why Rubin encourages McCain to develop a "reform-minded vision" to counter Obama's "standard-fare liberalism," which, in the absence of any alternative, will be solution enough for many voters.
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McCain's hopes lie not replaying George H.W. Bush, who was dinged as oblivious to the recession (which in retrospect was mild) and bored with a domestic agenda, but in a reform-minded vision which offers some real alternatives to Barack Obama's standard-fare liberalism.
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Ill be skipping a few towns that host standard-fare cakes, avoiding those whose dessert histories are a little dull, and passing on the Big Apple, where the namesake cake is not really cake.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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Ill be skipping a few towns that host standard-fare cakes, avoiding those whose dessert histories are a little dull, and passing on the Big Apple, where the namesake cake is not really cake.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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Mr. Arad is known for a design career that spans many disciplines (industrial design, architecture, mixed medium-installation), and unusual interpretations of standard-fare items, like his space-age looking rocking chairs.
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