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  • His intention was to write a fantasy history for Britain, but what he succeeded in doing was to create thegreat storyfor the world.

    Five Best Fantasy Series of Books | myFiveBest 2009

  • Yet in the book's final chapter, which covers the 80s onwards, there is the beginning of a more ambiguous story: the increasingly competitive nature of middle-class life and the decrease in job security; Margaret Thatcher's opening up of the classic middle-class professions, such as university teaching, to market forces; the slow decline of thegreat state and corporate bureaucracies; thedowngrading of middle managers by new business ideologies.

    Is the British middle class an endangered species? 2010

  • She has written several books on Constitutional Law issues, an area thegreat majority of Senators (and Representatives) find totallyunfamiliar.

    Top 10 Reasons for Caroline Kennedy's Appointment 2009

  • Nurtured by Khmer royalty for more than 1,000 years-its dancers unseen beyond the royalhousehold for most of that time-the ballet, with its graceful move­ments and elaboratecostumes, a symbol of the Cambodian people and culture, was considered by many one of thegreat performing art forms in Asia.

    uther College scholar preserves Cambodian dance history | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2009

  • In one way these massive and unnecessary police activities occurring in Pittsburg demonstrate how frightened the so called "World Leaders" are of losing their strangle hold on thegreat mass of people whose fate is in their hands.

    G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing 2009

  • This movement has put thegreat preasure onpreasidentcamp and preasident Parvez musahraf is seekingadvise from his close advisors to handle the coming situation.

    22 Newly Elected Independent Members Join PML 2008

  • For instance, though India is the land of thegreat surrogacy bazaar, there are no laws governing surrogacy in the country and the surrogacy bill meant to regulate it is pending in Parliament.

    Laws out of sync.... Shantanud 2008

  • The Big Mac is also one of thegreat symbols of the American capitalism (asis CocaCola) that many consider as a threat toregional or national traditions.

    40 years of Big Mac... and so what? 2008

  • One of her favorite subjects is all of thegreat foodthat Paraguay has to offer.

    Paraguay: Ex-Pat Bloggers Share New Experiences 2008

  • The Egyptologist Donald Redford has argued that the echoes of thegreat events of the Hyksos occupation of Egypt and their violent expulsion from the delta resounded for centuries, to become a central, shared memory of the people of Canaan.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

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