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In the early 1930s, the US ended alcohol prohibition partly because it had mid-wifed the criminal career of Al Capone and a thousand other goons, but primarily because they needed the taxes as the Depression struck.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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Beginning Friday, the Walter Reade will host "Wild East: The Best of Soviet Action Films," an eight-film selection of genre cousins to the Hollywood Western programmed by Ms. Verlotsky and mid-wifed through the agencies of Seagull Films.
Writing Her Own Eastern Bruce Bennett 2011
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In the early 1930s, the US ended alcohol prohibition partly because it had mid-wifed the criminal career of Al Capone and a thousand other goons, but primarily because they needed the taxes as the Depression struck.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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In the early 1930s, the US ended alcohol prohibition partly because it had mid-wifed the criminal career of Al Capone and a thousand other goons, but primarily because they needed the taxes as the Depression struck.
Johann Hari: Drug Warriors -- It's Time for You to Go to Rehab Johann Hari 2010
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First it was the "No drama policy ..." within campaign and I think this has mid-wifed "The no smear tactics largely attributed to the GOP".
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If you live in NYC, you probably will, and if you're dressed like a wifed-up schmuck and your acquaintance looks like a swinging cosmopolitan, you will feel lame.
Mihal Freinquel: Revitalize Your Relationship Wardrobe -- Please! 2009
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And with Oswald's death the era of conspiracy was mid-wifed by paranoia and cynicism into existence.
John Ridley: The Death of Oswald, the Birth of Conspiracies 2008
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Here in Egypt, Hamas is also viewed with increasing trepidation as an organization that threatens regional stability and the very peace treaty that Carter mid-wifed at Camp David between Israel and Egypt.
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I would say that the New Stereotype was born in the previous decade, mid-wifed by the outcome of the O.J.
April 2007 2007
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I would say that the New Stereotype was born in the previous decade, mid-wifed by the outcome of the O.J.
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