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It would be shorter once you got the hang of it.
Experience has no impact on the time required.
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This Just In--Nuclear War Averted
The bomb will not be used.
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You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section.
There was no mention of plans yesterday.
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How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?
Adaptec and Skadden were both on the list.
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The leading semi-official daily Al Ahram said in an editorial Wednesday that the attacks some Iraqi officials had made on the Egyptian leadership will not deter Cairo from standing by the Iraqi people and trying to prevent further U.S. military action.
Egypt will continue to stand by Iraq, despite the negative words of some Iraqi officials about Egyptian leadership.
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One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant TV with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for don't shoot, I'm a reporter.
There was no perceived danger in driving out to the boonies.
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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.
After-school prayer clubs fall in line neatly with church-state separation laws, being perfectly legal.
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complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.
They viewed other citizens as revolting.
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Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.
Senate Republicans want funding from PACs.
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The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983.
The company had a rigid, formalized structure and plan prior to 1983.
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But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.
Gerth purposefully edited out a part of the story.
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These rapacious European phone monopolies have given birth to independent call-back services.
They are only responsible for the arrival of independent call-back services.
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I'm afraid to step out of the car.
There is reason for fear outside of the car.
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The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994.
The press could not care less that Jones was dismissed.
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Coke refuses to concede, directing inordinate attention to even tiny neighborhoods.
Coke is even starting to direct attention to tiny neighborhoods, and refuses to concede.
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and she was talking gibberish.
She was having a mental break.
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When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.
Stewart never compares himself to past figures.
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Does his behavior add up to grounds for removal from office?
He cannot be removed simply because of his behavior.
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They take on a cartoonish, uniform cheeriness.
Their joyousness could be characterized as cartoon-like.
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Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.
When trying to chant the translations of other people's chants, it sounds silly
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Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.
The law becomes more unclear if the hyperlink provided directs to an image.
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Perversely, Weld lost the ideology/competence battle by winning the drugs/morality battle.
Weld won the battles of ideology and competence.
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Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate.
A lot of Americans agree with Orrin Hatch.
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Scientists were once ostracized for holding religious beliefs but can now worship without embarrassment.
It was once normalized for scientists to be looked down on for being religious.
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(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
I can't explain anything about such systems because I don't know anything about them.
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Charles Schulz need not fear death.
Schulz had no influence on modern comics.
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But I think he misses an important Though the conflict may not reveal a previously hidden incentive (as in 2), it may create one.
A hidden incentive may exist.
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The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.
She promised to cut back on her spending in the future.
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Wal-Mart still won't stock adult videos, although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do.
Wal-Mart thinks porn is immoral.
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Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ).
Thomas does not understand why Bunt is aimless.
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A gesture clearly suited to football's warlike nature, the Salute is named for Denver's Mile High Stadium.
The Denver's Mile High Stadium sell hot dogs at half price on saturdays.
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Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife.
The financial backers recall his statements.
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We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.
We are not interested in this at all.
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But Will He Bring Back the Football Team?
He wont bring back the football team until they decide on a new mascot.
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These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage.
No states will have gambling that is accessible.
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It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list.
It is horrible if the message is addressed to me specifically.
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You know, everything has to be robust a robust foreign policy, a robust national defense, a robust air attack on Serbia, a robust police crackdown, a robust anti-drug policy, a robust investigation of abuses.
The author points out the overuse of the word robust.
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Wore a rag on his head.
Someone wore a rag on his head.
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I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley.
Bradley is proposing solutions to benefit the public.
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The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks)
The Liberal Humanitarians believe in helping others.
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What to do about that, I don't know.
I have a foolproof plan to deal with that which I'm convinced can't fail.
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How do we know when the president had done a good job?
It's easy to tell if the president did a good job.
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Some places are so boring that that's what's comically interesting about Peoria, Encino, Cleveland.
Some categorize Encino as comically interesting.
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When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
Dexter never took over the Kind Center.
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1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.
The script covers all parts of Winchell's story.
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So Edgar Jr. will fail in Hollywood, but when he does, it won't be the failure of a romantic.
Edgar Jr. will flourish and make it in Hollywood.
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In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.
Republican presidents would make sure to get congressional approval before starting wars in the 1980s.
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Police are said to be inept and corrupt.
Everyone thinks that the police do an amazing job.
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There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.
Robert Alter works for the New Republic.
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The New Republic 's Jed Perl bashes the newly opened J. Paul Getty Museum, designed by Richard Meier, whose architecture, says Perl, only works in coffee-table books.
Richard Meier was involved in the creation of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.
Today's Papers was published weekly and always written by Scott Shuger.
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By the 1820s and '30s, most states were allowing all white men to vote (before that, they had to own land), and President Andrew Jackson was leading his famous war on the national bank.
All black men and women could vote in the 1820's and 1830's
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One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries.
Less people used food-stamp cards because of the disparaging looks they received.
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In Today's Papers for June 5, Scott Shuger
Scott Shuger wrote in the papers on June 5th.
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Of course, your mileage may vary depending on how many users are connected to your T1 line, how busy the Internet or
The T1 line is unaffordable.
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According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
John Podhoretz was the deputy editor for a periodical.
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In addition, the unions sponsored voter guides and a get-out-the-vote campaign.
all of the unions have been around for about 9 years.
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If you would like more information, you should go to the site that is actually handling this www.rtmark.com.
The website is owned by an American business.
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Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.
the original old testament was written on hemp paper
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And Stewart Brand's II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974), which recounts how this generation of computer kids designed computer games based on science fiction and used the Internet to fashion a universe of their own.
Brand described kids as being skilled with computers.
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Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.
The researchers placed in instruments to gather data on the patients when they performed their surgical trials.
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Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby.
You could see the impact of diseases that people caught as infants in the form of scars.
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We're talking about president of the United States.
We're not talking about any politicians at all right now.
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Wolf did call after this item was posted, but our conversation was off-the-record.
My conversation with Wolf was off the record.
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But on all these, the basic principle is the same.
The basic principle applies to all these.
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Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees.
No other companies take an approach to corporate intranets like Cognisoft does.
contradiction
Back then, gold was $35 per ounce.
gold has always been at least $40
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It is not that I expect anything practical.
I expect something impractical.
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After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.
Harvard's communications director ignored all the criticism lobbied at the school.
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Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran.
Master P needs these rookies in order for their business to be successful.
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Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
Fibroblasts can be found in fetuses.
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A few years ago I was helping a neighbor thread tracks back onto his bulldozer.
My neighbor is a farmer.
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Instead, liberals should focus on a more pressing building stronger unions.
preferably, liberals should pay more attention to building strong unions.
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Until recently, I enjoyed the confusion.
Many people were confused.
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Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick.
The accident was Joe's fault as he had been drinking that night.
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, the government--borrowing a lot of money).
the government, lending others a lot of money.
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Without seeing his work all the way through, it's hard for me to say whether Borchardt has talent, but he might not be such a stumblebum after all.
Borchardt mistakes are redeemable if his work is good.
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The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core.
The movie is a great triumph.
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That led him to the not-very-civil act of complaining to Bob Haldeman.
He complained to Bob Haldeman.
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If U.S. cities were abandoned tomorrow, would the survival rate of our public buildings be better or worse?
Humans do more damage to buildings than the elements.
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Saturated fat is still evil.
Saturated fat is a bad kind of fat.
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Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode.
Van Zandt showed the same joy in every single one of the episodes.
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This all happened in real life--although the Rockettes weren't the real Rockettes and neither was the choir.
The Rockettes perform every saturday night.
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(And yes, we'd like one, hypocrites that we are, thank you very much.)
We are not hypocrites we tell only the truth.
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Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent.
Shepard is right in that we are understating productivity growth.
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Maybe, just maybe, if he were sued again ...
He has a case pending now.
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When I checked a couple of years ago, the shelter population had indeed increased, but only by a handful of families.
The shelter is nearing capacity.
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The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0.
China thoroughly dominated their last round.
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Your advice to struck me as amazing.
The advice helped me solve the current problem.
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They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check.
They drive very ugly worn down cars and rarely pick up any checks.
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All praise is reserved for the production The staging is infinitely inventive, says New York 's John Simon.
John Simon is considered something of an expert on these types of productions.
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If he becomes a serious threat, Livingston and other GOP leaders will make sure to stop him.
Livingston is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Here's what worries Given the subtlety of the real issues here, what is the chance that this stuff will be decided on its merits?
Given is worried.
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The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.
The Company man kept his job despite the presence of new free agents.
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First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.
Any moral benefit will be depend on the cost.
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This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women.
All of the male executives in the company are single, strangely enough.
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Circulation has barely risen since World War II, and it's been falling for five years.
The business has been failing for five years now.
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It would do that other thing--succeed.
It would not fail.
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Is it Simhat Torah again already?
The author is unaware of the holiday Simhat Torah.
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How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles?
The person is asking about finding something wrong in articles.
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