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The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus.
The account deficit would grow out of hand and need for adjustments would have to be made in order to it from becoming unrepairable
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Founding editor = permanent voice in growth of Wired ! Move forward together!
A voice in the growth of Wired is related to being a founding editor.
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There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.
This description applies to invocations of Jewish genocide by Nazi Germany.
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As a result, sentences are short and clear, often brilliantly compressed.
Everyone can understand the sentences.
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And those are just the towns along Lake Como.
Those are the only towns near Lake Como.
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Hoiles is a big slab of a man, now 33, a veteran but not a star.
There is a veteran named Hoiles, who has big muscles but wanted to be a star.
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What makes Linux enthralling from a tech-head's point of view is that it is based on Unix standards that have been around for decades.
The majority of Unix distro doesn't need to introduce new standards to get to work their various functionalities
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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
The examples of propaganda that were inserted into the scripts was quite comical.
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The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines).
People still visit the site at the address that Direct Hit posted.
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My wife went to Florida with her mother once.
My wife has been to Florida with my mother-in-law.
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The NYT and LAT fronts report that a Vanderbilt University study, to be published today in Science , indicates that blacks are far less likely than whites to make use of the Internet.
Whites tend to utilize the internet more so than Blacks do.
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There's nothing in Pecker that isn't done more brilliantly--and more subversively--every week on Mike Judge's inspired cartoon series King of the Hill .
King of the Hill was a cartoon created by Mike Judge.
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Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up.
Increasing consumer demand from the top and bottom both can enhance global growth.
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But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf.
He wanted her to lie for him, which she soon realized.
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In 1897 he was in Moscow, staying at the Great Moscow Hotel, when he began to cough blood profusely.
He was in Moscow in 1987
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Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place?
Employers offer health insurance with an ulterior motive.
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On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right.
Not once did Fish assert that he was correct.
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Recently amended federal confidentiality laws have prompted such schools as the University of Delaware, Indiana University, and Penn State to notify parents when students under 21 violate campus rules concerning drugs or alcohol.
The University of Delaware, Indiana University, and Penn State have seen a decrease in the number of notifications that have had to be sent to parents, thanks in part to the newly amended federal confidentiality laws.
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In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages.
In 1996, major media corporations funded general election sites such as PoliticsNow and AllPolitics.
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The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill.
The change from normal to abnormal may start with a shot.
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As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.
Phantom of the Opera took place in Paris Opera House.
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When the nation's overall trade deficit increases, it means that Americans, on average, are spending more than they are earning.
A trade deficit occurs when Americans spend more than they earn on average.
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Graves hid out in the deep woods.
Graves is running from the law, hiding in the woods.
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But the Post made a telling omission here.
The Post included all of the details.
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So maybe the questions he proliferates here (here, unlike in his books, he questions the notion of a surgical strike, and here he wonders, Who has told us that it is OK to kill women and children?
He asked many different questions.
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When I think of someone like Tolly Greenberg, I think of my grandpa Ben, he writes.
He remembers his grandparent when he imagines someone.
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We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.
Many different diseases were used to help explain the syndrome.
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But they would get farther in their agendas if they would give a little respect to conventional marriage by letting heterosexual people keep the word marriage to themselves.
The agenda is focused even on the homosexual marriage
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According to psychologist David Keirsey, you are one of Plato's four types, you were born that way, you will always be that way, and you can find out which one you are by taking the temperament sorter quiz on his Web site.
Keirsey believes that taking this quiz will help you determine your Platonic temperament.
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Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress.
Monica had a very beautiful and exclusive dress
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Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
Denby writes that every scene is emotionally significant.
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It's about sex.
The topic is negative.
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According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich is well-known in the Jewish community for his knowledge.
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That means, in turn, that it's hard to figure out whether a company will be profitable next year, let alone whether its stock price is going to double.
Whether a company's profits will rise in the following year, is something that's hard to ascertain.
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They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.
Lower-income people had an even greater tolerance for weight gain.
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What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.
Meier's work flow's organically.
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perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.
She spends months at a quiet cottage to finish her book.
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Our compassion must defend the disabled.
Those who are crippled require our compassionate protection.
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Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP.
Two companies claim to have originals.
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Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?
It was unnecessary to acquire approval for the expansion beforehand.
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For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.
I think there is a definite correlation between income and divorce rate.
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(Click to learn more about the surprising Islamic origins of this argument and what Ludwig Wittgenstein had to say about it.)
Wittgenstein strongly disagreed with the argument in general.
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After-school prayer clubs skirt church-state separation laws and are popping up in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country.
Some people are concerned about what is taught in these clubs.
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The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.
The American priest and nun ministered to gays anyways and never told anybody about it.
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The United States abandoned its policy of stabilizing gold prices back in 1971.
All of the states did away with the policy of stabilizing gold prices.
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The problem isn't so much that men are designed by natural selection to fight as what they're designed to fight women .
The bigger problem lies within the men's assumed natural selection to fight women.
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And whether or not all the right jobs are filled with exactly the right people, the United States still manages to negotiate with China and the United Nations, the civil rights division still manages to file cases, and judges still manage to impose sentences.
Our society doesn't stop even if certain jobs are made by the wrong individuals
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If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.
Your baby probably has a sleeping problem if they are still waking at night to feed.
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The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India will soon pass China to first).
India, Pakistan, and Indonesia are having political problems due to money.
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Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).
Our universe will not break away for billions of years.
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I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.
Monica Lewinsky was in frequent contact with the president.
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The use of mind-altering drugs has probably increased as Huxley foresaw, although probably not to the extent that he foresaw.
With the increase of use of mind-altering drugs, came a greater dependence by others to rely on them even more over time.
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Even his pit bulls restrained themselves.
The pit bulls attacked.
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In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
WTO won over Kodak without applying energy into winning.
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Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel.
The pulp-fiction's author's 34th novel was a best seller.
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On the same day, another Albanian paper, iKoha Jonei , published some impressive statistics about corruption in the Albanian government.
The Albanian paper had a legitimate source to prove their claim.
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But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99.
There is a 99 after the election.
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Milosevic points to 1989.
Milosevic never considered 1989.
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The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends.
The movie was nominated for best picture for an independent production.
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, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.
Giving generously to those in need is of the utmost importance to them.
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Newsweek also hints that 13 Heaven's Gate members--the ground crew--may be traveling through the Southwest, waiting for a signal from the spaceship.
The Heaven's Gate members await a spaceship signal.
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And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist.
Bradley is in a good position to be a strategist.
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Remember when he looked us in the eye?
He wanted to make eye contact as a form of intimidation.
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I also watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his bike.
In Lucca, all boys are watchful of pigeons while bike riding.
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SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago.
SportsZone and SportsLine are adamant in supporting their gambling focused media.
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They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.
They were easy to access with a password and a few mouse clicks, then wait for them to load slowly.
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Upon rebooting you'll find that the Internet Explorer icon is gone from your desktop and Windows works fine.
Internet Explorer is core to the operating system and must remain installed.
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NBC had fired him a year and a half ago after he pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex.
He had assaulted a woman sexually and was promptly eliminated from NBC.
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When Pixar went public, the money raised from that very first sale of its shares was what it used to run its business in the future.
The shares that Pixar sold at it's initial offering funded the running of the business.
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The tricky question is what are the core values that really define you and what are the fringe issues on which differences are not crucial.
Some find it difficult to deny the importance of fringe issues.
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I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude.
The author's attitude hasn't changed.
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There is an obvious opportunity here for a bonanza of international conferences to study the need for worldwide treaties to set up global commissions to come up with transnational standards for ...
Transnational conferences are a bonanza opportunity for global treaties by intergalactic commissions.
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Since top athletes inevitably are drawn from the healthiest sector of the population, a generally superior system of health care means a bigger pool of people to draw from.
Top athletes will be generated from a worse health care system.
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I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.
The book is still being written.
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Even though Washington Week 's treatment of Flytrap is inordinately polite, it is worth watching--but only if you don't watch the rest of the show first.
The rest of the show is rude to Flytrap.
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He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley.
She might be able to use a threat of candidacy to get a position she would rather have anyway.
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It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.
It occurred in the early 1950s.
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(The American convention is not quite what it American journalists are permitted to act on their prejudices--the news columns and air time devoted to Flytrap wouldn't make sense unless reporters and editors believed the accusations.
The attention given by journalists to Flytrap was because they trusted that it was true.
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Don't let the philosophy of Gingrich ...
Gingrich is the most proficient philosopher of modern society
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Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.
Some internet providers allow you to share your data.
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If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell?
Burger King could buy Taco Bell as a way to be competitive.
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But what it isn't is a rational way to run an industry.
The way it runs an industry makes total sense.
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The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.
Many Americans now have easy access with the relaxation of prohibitionist laws.
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Birch pointed out that conservatives defend serial and childless heterosexual marriages, but the whole topic was a loser for her.
Republicans tend to defend those who marry many times over and those that do not result in children.
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The seductive and corrupting film noir downtowns featured in so many admired cheap second features might as well all have been demolished, along with the long-gone Bijous and Palaces where these films first played.
The Bijous and Palaces still play film noir today.
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After the Madness reads like going to court feels.
One will feel like they sat in court all day after reading After the Madness.
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Exploiting the newly dead sounds ghoulish, but the medical establishment rationalizes the practice--at least in private--by saying that it's better than letting interns fumble on live patients.
Medical institutes find it acceptable to allow it's interns to work with recently deceased cadavers, rather than living patients.
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(By contrast, Slate 's assessment relies entirely upon sources who are not identified by name.)
Slate's assessment is correct.
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I am not an intolerant person, having grown up in New York City, where one man's ceiling is another man's floor.
New York City has many multi-story buildings for housing.
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Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.
The programmers are working hard at their job to prevent technological problems from occurring.
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A few of the more bearable Hotel Bill, Cash Inn, China Pattern, The John Wilkes Toll Booth, Sheets for Treats.
The movies are all parodic in nature.
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But there are arguments to the contrary.
There are arguments to be made on the other side.
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Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces.
Morris wanted to take something from Leuchter.
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You don't understand how important this is.
One considers it a joke.
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This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.
God's favor marked chilly blondes ordained for 2,000 years.
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As long as G.W.'s policies remain ambiguous, every TV ad is a stealth Bush ad.
The policies of G.W. were ambiguous by design.
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Critics revel in his caustic humor and vengeful gossip about new-media moguls (he describes one AOL exec as a fat man, an ugly man, sweating like crazy).
Critics seems to enjoy his scathing humor regarding new-media moguls.
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Does this mean that you will be happier when the information comes out?
Will the information coming out make you happy?
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No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.
Many many ballots were acknowledged after May 6, 1998.
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We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year.
Our out-of-town friends made us the warmest blanket.
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