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She calls them-the nannies and au pairs-shadow mothers.
Forbes.com: News 2011
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She calls them-the nannies and au pairs-shadow mothers.
Forbes.com: News Meghan Casserly 2011
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They do not have the Order's wisdom in seeing what is best for them-the public rarely does.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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You remember them-the year the Cut-Arms were sick!
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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But this time all but one of them-the Chatsworth fire, in distant northwest L.A. -- burned outside the city limits and struck at the middle and upper classes.
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For eighteen year-olds and other teenagers who've sought employment this summer, another harsh situation confronted them-the absence of job opportunities.
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This was where inmates met visitors, where they boiled the rice their families brought them-the prison provided no food The courtyard was also the children's playground-Mariam had learned that many of the children had been born in Walayat, had never seen the world outside these walls.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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They worked a lot of gags, and most of them-the best of them-were easy to work.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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While there are obvious ways to cope with waste-Royte clearly outlines them-the biggest problem is mindset: we're accustomed to the ease of the toss.
Garbage Land: Summary and book reviews of Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte. 2005
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In your recent writing, you have said that it has been "disastrous" for those on the progressive side of the American body politic to relinquish to the conservatives - to the "regressives," as you term them-the work of defining "family values" in our political discourse.
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