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  • More than 25 million Americans have money in them, and in recent years they've done well-the average U.S.

    Mutual Funds: Defending Your Bonds 2008

  • If a company's headquarters is in Boston or New York, it scarcely matters that the Omaha branch is doing well-the whole company will feel the squeeze.

    How Safe Is Your Job? 2008

  • Whatever the specifics of Rice's ancestry-the family says there were white landowners, favored household servants, and education going back generations on her father's side as well-the important point is that it powerfully shaped her view of herself as a black patrician.

    'Condoleezza Rice: An American Life' 2007

  • When Ian had been taken into the Wolf clan, he had been given to foster parents, as well-the parents of the dead man in whose stead he had been adopted.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • - Sridhar Pappu A few weeks ago, when The New York Times announced that then – chief correspondent R.W. Apple had been appointed the newspaper's associate editor-an unusual but not unprecedented title that recognized him as an in-house Svengali in his expertise with politics, international affairs and eating well-the appointment felt ceremonial.

    Barkley Picture Gives S.I. Editor an Opening Foul 2002

  • But the third ‘originative source’ must be present as well-the cause vaguely dreamed of by all our predecessors, definitely stated by none of them.

    On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

  • There's another element to consider as well-the concept of what Canada is and how we define ourselves as a nation.

    Prairie Agriculture: An Important Part of Canada's Future 2000

  • But everything that had destroyed it would be set down, as well-the secrets of power with their immense destructive capabilities and the formulas for building weapons that could level entire cities the size of Castledown.

    Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001

  • But if the difficulties were greater, the rewards were greater as well-the complex surge of melody filled him like a storm of light, the passion and discipline of the others creating an ocean that bore him up like a windjammer upon its surface, its master and victim all in one.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • It was not unknown for a peasant to take a female toddler of two years and drop her down a well-the merciful ones broke their necks first-to dispose of the embarrassing encumbrance.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

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