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Remember that only one generation before my remembered holiday party, most people didn't have health insurance at all.
In the past health insurance wasn't accessible to the majority of people
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I hope the next generation is large enough to include that person.
The author hopes the next generation will be much smaller.
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There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.
He has a debilitating nervous condition.
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Careful what you wish for, Mayer cautions her fellow You'll miss his clownish antics when he's gone.
They missed his silly pranks after he left.
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In fact, the immediate result of the trials was to widen the breach between Haywood (who became increasingly radical) and his more cautious WFM associates (who wound up pulling back from the revolutionary IWW).
The trials were set to bring the partnership between Haywood and his neighborly associates closer.
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In this particular case, the buyers come to Las Vegas to purchase the goods rather than having them shipped out of the city, but the economics are the same.
The particular case has buyers in Las Vegas purchasing the goods.
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process one out of every four checks in the country.
All checks are processed somewhere in the country.
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But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and
Ann heard her dad talking on the phone with his coworkers.
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They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another.
They are the same, that's the contradiction.
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Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like the Unabomber, Katz is driven frothy by a world that won't conform to his expectations.
Katz wrote a suburban detective mystery series.
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France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.
President Chirac is the president of France.
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If partial-birth abortion is too gruesome to allow, however, it is hard to see how other late abortions, especially D and Es, are any different.
Partial-birth abortions, D and Es are all the same.
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Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape.
Vouchers are not enough to afford real avenues of escape.
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They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise.
Oprah hosted a cruise for wealthy people.
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The fourth quarter is Jordan Time.
Jordan Time is always in the third quarter
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The Network Vehicle designers left car phones off the list, I guess, because they assume that car phones are practically standard equipment today.
Car phones being installed is considered to be a practical standard today.
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Play is activity engaged in for the enjoyment of it without regard to the financial remuneration.
Play is activity engaged in for the enjoyment of it, as well as receiving financial remuneration.
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But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...
Asians are persecuted in America as much as the Jews.
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
The author cares a lot about other people
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But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero.
The hand to hand combat makes vampire movies more entertaining.
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This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.
In the Cinderella teams tournament history, this year's round of 16 was sometimes boring to watch.
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There are lots of enormous rocks, anyway, which in my experience tends to mean lots of enormous snakes.
Snakes seek the crevices of large rocks to escape the heat of the sun.
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An exclusive report reveals that controversial feminist Naomi Wolf is advising the Gore campaign on how to win the women's vote.
Naomi Wolf advised Obama campaign
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The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
It's a lot of trouble collecting Junior-high-school transcript or the quote from bellows landlord in Paris from 1948.
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Chavis and Farrakhan both argue that Christianity and the nation are incompatible, and many predict that the 49-year-old Chavis will ultimately succeed Farrakhan.
Farrakhan is much older than Chavis.
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Eszterhas' posturing He became the celebrity he'd always hoped to be--brash, appealing, larger than life.
He commands attention in any room he graces.
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Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations?
Equal opportunity does not need restrictions to be good for the smaller states.
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The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.
The movie was very upsetting.
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At least, it seems clear that the earnings of the total labor force have risen pretty much in line with productivity (output per hour of work) when measured correctly.
The total labor force and the output of hours per week always shows a decline.
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A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that.
Deformities of the female body aren't frowned upon in their likeness.
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I then launched Xwindows.
Xwindows booted up successfully.
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It's about sex.
The topic is child friendly.
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should not guide our activities in cyberspace.
Nothing wants to really guide actions on a website if hacking isn't involved.
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The PKK has also bombed Turkish targets in Germany.
Germany bombed the PKK in Turkey.
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He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.
Barnes analyzes a man who uses a tactic in order to diminish conceptions about his stance on social issues.
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As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.
This person tries to give a fair price.
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William Jefferson Clinton ranks on the list.
The list, intended as a reminder for grocery shopping, merely includes food items that the house requires.
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An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives.
The essay discusses the role of male relationships for another generation.
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Chief among Will China preserve the rule of law and free speech, which are essential for business prosperity?
Businesses fail when China preserves rules.
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In preparation for our trip, I spent months studying Italian soccer on television.
I am uncertain about a few things about Italian soccer.
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Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human.
Reports state that a human has been cloned.
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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.
Buchwald took a holiday too.
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driving a car--that are not wrong in themselves, just wrong for a 5-year-old.
You can teach a 5 year old how to drive.
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and she was talking gibberish.
She knew she was talking gibberish.
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Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.
Intelligence is the same as anguish.
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Last weekend, journalist couple Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue signed affidavits claiming that Blumenthal told them last March that Lewinsky was a stalker.
Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue agreed on who Bluementahal said the stalker was.
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For example, suppose that the U.S. stock market was to crash, threatening to undermine consumer confidence.
The state of the U.S. stock market would affect consumer confidence.
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In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed.
Nixon's wrong doings were worse than Clinton's wrong doings.
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The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.
The third edition of The Third Wave book is considered to be perfect in all aspects.
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All we've done is checked that the first two creditors divided their collective share of $125 appropriately
The share was fairly divided between the two creditors.
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Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa
Owens was not a poor lower class individual.
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Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose.
A humbler Labor movements might be more likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut it's larger purpose.
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I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles.
The author no longer is a fan of Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker.
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Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone.
The tobacco bill enlightens everyone
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Some of these Nobel Prize winners don't want to deal with empirical reality at all.
Dealing with empirical reality is something every Nobel Prize winner dealt with.
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He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate.
He has 3/4 of a chance to be in serious trouble, and lose his job.
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The cover shows Johnson, a bland-looking man in full business attire, on the porch of an all-American home that looks a tad too small to be his.
The large mansion in the photo was clearly out of the European countryside.
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Second, the whole fiasco was the best thing that could have happened to the firm.
The firm was unable to come back from the fiasco.
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Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing.
Professional storytellers love this.
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The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine.
The media is willing to buy the right-wing machine that Clinton is a victim of.
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Thanks to current banking regulations, more than 85 percent of U.S. banks currently maintain KYC programs.
Half of banks in the States expect to begin using KYC programs in the near future.
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That was Joyce's age when J.D. summoned her to his hilltop aerie in Cornish, N.H.
Joyce was invited to Antarctica.
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Someone asks the CNN guy, How are the ratings these days?
The CNN guy was asked about the current ratings.
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(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.)
The author is making plans to buy a fax machine at this moment.
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Sani Abacha died , reportedly of a heart attack.
Sani is doing very well.
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She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.
She will start off Culturebox with MacDonalds.
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True--but I fully grant that importance.
They don't feel that I can see this is important.
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Book and software pirates are prosecuted under the copyright laws, but pirates are not really plagiarists.
Pirates of books and software don't really plagiarize other peoples work but are prosecuted under copyright laws.
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We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin.
Today's Papers is almost unbiased when it comes to news.
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
Spark was full of surprises.
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Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.
It was the first time that Giancana heard Sinatra singing
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How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?
Alan Greenspan often tries to talk about other important issues instead of economics.
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The pope did, however, suggest the extradition of Tinky Winky, for 'crimes against God.
The pope thought Tinky Winky committed crimes.
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To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers!
There is no ties between the purchase and the work our forefathers have completed.
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At worst, he is amassing credentials, fame, and wealth on the basis of others' uncredited labor--once considered a scholarly sin.
He doesn't credit other people's labors on purpose.
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This time, they were looking for a candidate who knew how to speak the language of love.
An organization was seeking and aspirant with specific knowledge.
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If McCain emerges as the nominee, Democrats will exploit his domestic weaknesses.
McCain's emergence as a candidate is welcomed by Republicans.
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Diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and penile injuries (more than 100,000 whacked in bike accidents have been permanently deflated, according to the medical literature) all prevent men from mustering a swelling.
Most men see a doctor when they need help with private matters.
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To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing store and build a three-bedroom house; and Rani, an illiterate woman from the washermen's caste, changed into her prettiest sari one recent morning.
Newspaper reporters are encouraged to open their stories in a narrative way
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Paul Samuelson had good reasons for beginning his textbook with Keynesian analysis.
Samuelson's textbook incorporated Keynesian analysis.
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For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.
Simova is upset that the meetings were rejected.
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Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding!
Al Gore is going to repair his financial losses.
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His son and heir, Bashar, is inexperienced (he's an ophthalmologist by training).
Bashar has never had training as an Ophthalmologist.
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But all that ended long ago.
Long ago, it just all stopped.
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Ambrose--in the very next sentence!
There is a following sentance.
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Framing the election around the desirability of tax cuts is risky business for Clinton; since the age of Reagan, the public assumes that the Republicans are the anti-tax party.
Making his campaign revolve around tax cuts is a safe choice by Clinton.
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When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity.
The Russian army surrendered to Chechens.
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Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.
Eric Holder is uninterested in the Baitgate
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It is a society in which every want is fulfilled.
At the end of the day, people are left wanting more in the society.
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Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a
The term hypochodriack first appears in the 1960's.
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But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement.
The Barlows are like most observers.
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I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset.
Boris Shub broadcast on the RIAS station.
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Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.
Their are better standards available than the 0.08.
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Will her job description be done by then?
Her job description will need a few days to be done
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This triathlon kills Churchill, who wins the defeat-totalitarianism contest but flunks the liberation-and-justice contest.
The liberation-and-justice contest didn't have any winners.
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The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
The author wants someone to relax.
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For one thing, it's relentless--80,000 houses.
There are too many houses.
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News zooms in) for their Kenneth Starr cover stories.
The cover stories are political in nature.
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In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.
Confidence is destroyed by difficult situations.
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As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.
Talking heads is trying to increase their popularity.
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