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While some other TV analysts danced around rendering judgment on then-new San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary pulling down his pants (in the locker room) to motivate his team, Cowher didn't flinch from second-guessing a coach: "I think pulling your pants down is inappropriate."
Grading NFL coverage: Networks have room for improvement 2009
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My guess is that you got a bottle made for a manufacturing plant in the then-new state of Israel. unlike Pepsi, Coca Cola told the Arab states where they could put their blacklist of companies that sold to Israel.
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That particular year, the category included two actors from Damages (Zeljko Ivanek won), one each from the then-new Mad Men, Lost and (the only arguable entry) Boston Legal (the inevitable William Shatner).
Ask Matt: Crime-Show Upheavals, Dancing and Killing and More! 2011
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The letter articulated both the principle and the phrase 'wall of separation between church and state' at the core of the then-new republic.
Hans Johnson: Demands of Aid to Religion Endanger Schools, Anger Moderates Hans Johnson 2011
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I was also one of a small number of scientists—mainly ecologists, climatologists and meteorologists—who in the 1970s became concerned about the possibility of a human-induced global warming, based on then-new measurements.
Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific Daniel B. Botkin 2011
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It was a humiliation for the then-new president, John F. Kennedy.
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It was a humiliation for the then-new president, John F. Kennedy.
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In 1983, a major Manet retrospective at the Grand Palais for the centennial of the artist's death was co-curated by the director of the then-new Musée d'Orsay, the late Françoise Cachin, and the New York Metropolitan Museum's Charles S. Moffett.
Still Turning Black to Light Judy Fayard 2011
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It was a humiliation for the then-new president, John F. Kennedy.
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The letter articulated both the principle and the phrase 'wall of separation between church and state' at the core of the then-new republic.
Hans Johnson: Demands of Aid to Religion Endanger Schools, Anger Moderates Hans Johnson 2011
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