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1 bank in loans, deposits, business lending (large and small), and ATMs (15,000);
The bank does not lend money to people or businesses.
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Chances are that if you know she's running around, it's likely your brother does, too.
If they know that she is running around everywhere, it's probable their brother knows that, as well.
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Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy.
If the generals regain control, the safety of Russia is greatly threatened.
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Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.
Colin Powell is a successful person with a military background.
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
There's something unique expression about his dance.
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You can fast the next day.
You don't have to fast the next day if you don't want to.
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It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.
Men used to barter marriage for sex.
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(Saint Johnswort makes your skin sensitive to sunlight.)
Saint Johnswort has been found to be allergen-free.
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Why would you assume that this comment has to do with African-Americans anyway?
The author doesn't want assumptions to be made about African-Americans.
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Bob Barr, R-Ga., have given speeches to a white citizens' group whose members attended Duke's latest fund raiser.
No money was collected at the political event.
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All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.
The statements tend to offend the majority of readers that are Democrats.
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A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.
The top of the marble is covered in chocolate.
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He and Els were on the 17 th green, tied at 4 under.
Els was in a tie for 4 under on the 17th green.
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He is not an economics writer
He wrote the strongest economics papers.
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in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.
According to Quentin Compson's story, the white Southsern culture is as meets the eye.
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It's not commerce that rules in Hollywood.
Commerce rules Hollywood.
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William Jefferson Clinton ranks on the list.
William Jefferson Clinton is ranked highly on the list.
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And so economists have, more and more, simply avoided the subject; and being human, have tended to rationalize that avoidance by asserting that the subject isn't really important anyway.
The majority of subjects we prefer not to talk about isn't really important
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Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes.
The oldest feature is Ask Bill Barnes.
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Today, after our investigation, I come to a point that frankly I prayed I would never reach.
There was hope that this conclusion would not be reached after the investigation.
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Read him his rights for what crime?
I don't know what crime he has commited.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The judge's decision may be in your favor.
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Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
There is a discount available for children attending the kindergarten too
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That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.
The author isn't fond of the chief beneficiary because they are brothers, and he is jealous.
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He's asking us to overlook it.
He wants us to look into it.
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There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.
There are other descriptions that also fit the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis.
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The eternal shortage of judges means that some cases are adjudicated peremptorily.
There are too many judges..
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That's 2 percent of the $100 billion total spent on ads in all media.
Across all media less than 1 billion is spent on ads.
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Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.
The snoop was able to uncover lots of information.
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If increasing democratization is the test for access to the international-trading system, China has flunked.
China has failed if it requires increased democratization for access to the international-trading system.
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The New York Times offered moral indignation
The New York Times is usually impartial when offering a moral judgement
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But Weld blew this moral advantage by attacking Helms July 15.
The attack was deemed unwarranted and excessive by many voters who quickly retracted their support for Weld.
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The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record.
The suspected shooter was a poor student that behaved badly.
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Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
Overhype is a smart term to use, and everyone uses it.
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The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.
The two parties continue to bicker despite the calls for peace.
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Mostly I just skim the retractions), and himself (I am so sorry ...
The author's retractions may benefit himself emotionally.
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In the short term, readjustment hits EITC, Social Security, WIC, food stamps, and school lunches, says Dean Baker of the Economic Policy Institute, but in the long term, taxes will be 30 [percent] or 40 percent higher.
Taxes will not go up later.
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He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.
Though slick, the young man was involved in a car accident.
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That's not an irrefutable disproof that discrimination exists, but it's at least a calculation that needs to be taken seriously.
It's strong, impossible-to-deny proof that discrimination exists.
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Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.
Saddam has found allies over an oil deal with several countries.
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[Monica] made him feel good about himself.
He rarely had a positive attitude before their interactions.
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Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality).
Falsehoods and lies are different.
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And in that case, the white candidate at 99 th place today wouldn't get in anyway.
The person in 99th place is not eligible to receive anything.
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But from there, he goes wrong.
All he said was wrong.
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
The Germans can't agree on the European fiscal policies so they keep a stern domination over it.
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(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)
75 percent of the U.S soup Market is taken by Campbell's
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All these numbers may be climbing, but they remain low.
The numbers at this moment remain low.
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To which host Tim Russert replied, Why won't you abide by the 11 th Amendment and stop criticizing George W. Bush?
The 11th amendment requires criticism of presidents.
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Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!
Prudie is calm and still can't type.
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She is hauled away, presumably to be killed.
A woman is in danger
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One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams.
The houses in the old neighborhoods are being terrorized by mob farm teams.
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The product could make the blind more independent.
The blind can benefit from this product.
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In addition, the unions sponsored voter guides and a get-out-the-vote campaign.
The unions prematurely stopped the get-out-the-vote tour.
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The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .
One of the Washington Post's employees was put in handcuffs by a war criminal.
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If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
The Sith Lord was much more compassionate in his adolescence.
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You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?
They are scared of overdosing.
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Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.
The Fitzsimmons affair is not an issue for them.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
Tout de Suite was enjoyed by a multitude of Davis' listeners.
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a) Starr's top deputy had spent much of the day briefing these people.
They were briefed by Starr's top deputy.
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And in a final act of disintermediation, Son of 695 retaliates against all these mayors and council members who thought they got the drop on It will roll back all taxes and fees increased since July 1999, when I-695 qualified for the ballot.
When I-695 qualified for the ballot, it raised everybody's taxes and fees.
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According to the actress, they couldn't.
They could of but they didn't have the proper materials.
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Had Flytrap never occurred, Gore surely would be running on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.
Gore could take credit for running on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.
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One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.
Online polling allows for email blast lists to recipients.
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This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.
The story focused on interviews with scientists more than research of scientists.
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There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.
There was very little access to pornography then compared to the current time.
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To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.
When you realize your days are few, you under appreciate them.
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In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.
Der Spiegel, which was a German Magazine, was printed in color.
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It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen.
Trent Lott often engages in politics since retirement.
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A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.
The Independent Gay Forum likes to depend on Washington politics.
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In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.
Extremely difficult situations are considered.
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In 1990, Milliken supplied crucial seed money to the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank headed by former Reagan administration official Clyde Prestowitz; thereafter, he contributed more than 10 percent of ESI's budget.
The economic Strategy Institute was supplied Supply money by Milliken.
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The USAT lead states that leaks indicate that in his deposition last Saturday, Clinton was asked detailed questions about his sexual history with at least four women, including one woman escorted by a state trooper to a rendezvous just days before he became president.
The USAT lead refuses to give information on Clinton.
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Clinton is said to be concerned with shaping a historical legacy, but as may be noted from his failed medical care program, his unpopular anti-Iraq saber rattling, and his largely ignored dialogue on race, the care of business is pretty much all that's wanted of Clinton, too.
Clinton shaped medical businesses.
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But these actors also convey the sense of an internal furnace of pain and anxiety that gives fevered glow to such minutiae (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). However, the play itself is found wanting.
The play lasted for more than three hours.
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The new regimens are themselves feasible (at costs from pennies to $60 per patient, they seem to be).
The cost of the new regimens might be too high.
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Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.
I'm so happy to be in this position of absolute freedom.
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This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
Dove's landscapes can lack complexity for some viewers
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The cover essay reflects on hate, describing it as a personal psychological reaction to idiosyncratic experience.
Hate and love operate under similar mechanisms, according to the essay.
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Comedy attacks.
Acting sad and sulky.
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Even when Forrest Sawyer is sitting in, it's still World News Tonight With Peter Jennings . Just because Johnny goes on vacation, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson doesn't suddenly become The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . The task of a guest host is delicate.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is not called The Tonight Show With Jay Leno when Johnny goes on vacation.
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these many columns and articles on the subject.
The articles are factual and honest in nature.
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Smith's political ideas are more elusive.
Smith beats around the bush with his political ideas.
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Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance.
Increasing the tax rates makes it easier for less tax evasion.
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Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.
We can expect another rise after about 3 years.
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to my aunt's cleaning woman in upstate Pennsylvania and learned to adore the small town with its rows of stores and trees on the sidewalk and only a short walk into the country, in this case up a steep hill,
The community is loved in part for its many stores and arboreal pathways.
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The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.
The Clinton administration is not taking the risks of technology transfers into consideration.
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But Said's fame outside the American academy rests on Orientalism , his sweeping account of how Western art, literature, and scholarship have produced a deformed, biased picture of Arab and Muslim culture in the service of colonial domination.
Said agrees with the western art, literature, and scholar about the Muslim culture.
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Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read.
I dislike the entire article.
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We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup.
Upon further consideration the idea has been rejected.
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All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls.
There are already a lot of lobbyists in office.
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Are we backing the Kosovo Liberation Army?
We support the enemies of the Kosovo Liberation army, correct?
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July 9, PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ran, without comment, all the PDFA's new ads.
Jim Lehrer commented on the new ads on The NewsHour.
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Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?
It's impossible to have feelings of inadequacies.
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For affirmative action to do anything, it must involve advancing people who are slightly less qualified.
For affirmative action to be a success, we must help more qualified people to advance.
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In Today's Papers for June 5, Scott Shuger
The paper came out on June fifth.
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I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).
Not many guests are needed at the wedding but two for sure need to be there.
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In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.
Racoons were never supposed to be in Japan until they figured out how to handle them.
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(As a variation on this theme, one can imagine a strategic schooling motive, whereby the least-accomplished children get extra schooling, in the hope that they will become more interesting to converse with.)
This is one strategy in helping students improve their conversation skills.
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Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers.
The sister has been excited about this for years.
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The White House Web site's theme of the Supporting America's Families in Times of Distress.
The theme of the White House website is related to the FBI and CIA
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