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The names of the companies are confidential and were not known to the researchers.
The researchers were not aware of the companies' names.
The researchers knew the names of all of the companies involved.
Almost everything is quoted in US dollars, but, of course, you can pay in French francs or Netherlands Antilles guilders.
The prices can be paid in francs even though the prices are in dollars.
The quoted prices are given in francs.
And how many closings have been appealed?
A question of how many appeals were made in regard to closings.
There have been no closings that were appealed.
Senor, should you ever wish to sell, por favor, remember one Luis Oliveri!
Senor, if you ever want to sell, please remember Luis Oliveri!
I don't want this, Senor, I don't need anything.
Stories of the brothers' arrogance and brutality are legendary.
There were stories of the arrogance and brute of the brothers
Legends were told of the kind and gentle ways of the brothers
The 130 years of Portuguese control proved precarious.
The 130 years of control by the Portuguese proved to be uncertain.
The 130 years of control by the Portuguese proved to be stable.
The Makah tribe's new strategy of whale hunting with plutonium-tipped harpoons.
Using plutonium-tipped harpoons is the tribe's new hunting method.
The Makah tribe is now using aluminum-tipped harpoons to hunt whales.
If you're going to join in, check the brakia and tires and make sure a strong lock is included.
Good tires and brakes will make for a safer trip.
Byicycle theft is not a problem here.
Among households making less than $40,000 a year, whites were six times as likely as blacks to have used the Web.
Whites are more likely to have used the web in households of low income.
Among households making more than $40,000 a year, whites were six times less likely as blacks to have used the web.
yeah you get your best litter is usually your first one
The first litter is usually the best.
The first litter is often the worst.
But never mind, news of the Justice Center - all the more important in the wake of Sept. 11, an event that left thousands more New Yorkers impoverished - would have to wait.
The event on September 11 left many people in New York impoverished.
People were much better off after September 11th.
By the time the Chinese sage, Hiuen Tsang, came here in the seventh century, it was a thriving university for teaching philosophy, logic, grammar, medicine, and Buddhist theology.
The university teaches philosophy, logic, grammar, medicine, and Buddhist theology.
The university was failing by the seventh century.
It is expected to be the most controversial term in recent memory, with cases on free speech, church and state, and the federal-state balance of power.
Free speech is one of the most controversial terms in recent memory.
Cases on Free speech were not controversial at all.
Based on the numerous comments it received, FDA published the codified provisions of the draft final rule on April 17, 1997 (62 Fed.
The FDA published the provisions of the draft final rule following numerous comments.
The codified provisions of the draft final rule were published on May 23, 1998.
Red! You, Red! Are you up there? Now don't try to hide.
Red! Where are you?
Red! Hide yourself!
I remarked.
A remark was given.
The person stayed quiet.
Then Kirby had disappeared during that last scout in Tennessee, vanishing into nowhere when he fell wounded from the saddle, smashing into a bushwhackers' hideout.
Kirby disappeared in Tennessee.
Kirby made it home safely.
Chessel's Land, on the left, was the place where Deacon Brodie was finally caught in 1788.
Deacon Brodie was being pursued for some reason in the 1700s.
Deacon Brodie was never caught and lived free forever.
they don't uh you think so i've i've i've never seen one i've never seen one i've never seen one
I've never seen one.
I've seen one.
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (PRA) applied life cycle management principles to information management and focused on reducing the governmentas information-collection burden.
The Paperwork Reduction Act was passed in 1980.
The Paperwork Reduction Act was passed and implemented in 1890.
Historians and sociologists like to explain it all as a continuation of the feudal spirit of rigidly reinforced social hierarchies, with company presidents as latter-day shoguns and middle management as reincarnated samurai warriors.
Corporations are a lot like the old feudal spirit.
Coprorations are run like democracies.
Summer tourists make gentler progress on the bikes they've hired at the resorts.
Tourists enjoy leisurely trips using hired bikes.
It's not possible for tourists to hire bikes at the resorts.
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.
I think Borchardt might have some talent.
I know Borchardt is the most talented person on Earth.
normally i listen to CNN or Headline News about an hour a day and then i supplement that with uh radio news from my car radio and from a news magazine once a week
Typically I will try to watch CNN for an hour every day along with listening to news on the radio.
I would watch CNN for ten hours straight in a daze.
8 The controversial Bracero Program operated between 1942 and 1964 and permitted Mexicans to work temporarily in United States agriculture.
For a little over 20 years in the 20th century the Bracero Program allowed Mexicans to be employed for short periods in US agriculture.
The Bracero Program granted immediate and indefinite asylum to Mexican cartel members.
Poirot, who was watching me intently, gave a sigh.
Poirot sighed.
He made no sound.
As discussed previously, EPA considered the future compliance costs in assessing the impact of the rule.
The EPA considered the future compliance costs.
The EPA failed to consider the future compliance costs.
Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.
He was compared to other sport greats.
Despite his own proclamations, his sport abilities were not recognized.
i would i would love to go there i mean like again again not now but at some point to go see what what this is like i mean this this is am azing because this is this is an this is an example of an entirely different culture that wants to be like us like you said before as well so it'd be interesting to watch
I would be happy to go there since it's a culture that is unlike us yet wants to be similar.
I think I would hate traveling there because it's so similar to our own culture.
The supervisor should promptly resolve such discrepancies.
The supervisor is empowered to solve the problems.
There is nothing that can be done about the discrepancies.
'It's so clean and dirty, all at the same time.
It is both clean and dirty.
It's extremely filthy.
We climaxed together, rested, and began again.
More than one person had an orgasm together.
After the orgasms they left and went to have dinner.
Inflation is an overall rise in the price of goods and services.
An overall increase in the price of stuff and things is called inflation.
Inflation is the overall decrease in how much things cost.
nursing home that we finally had fortunately she only had to stay a few weeks and she was able to to return to her apartment again but it's really a big uh big decision as to you know when to do it
we had to--she only had to stay a few weeks, and then she went home, but it's a big decision
she's still there; she won't be able to leave, unfortunately
The major source of the overall decline in investment-good prices was the over 22 percent average annual decline in the price of computers and peripheral equipment since 1995.
Annual prices for investment-goods have dropped since 1995, which is significantly related to the annual decline of the cost of computers and computer equipment.
Because the price of computers has increased dramatically, the overall annual prices of investment-goods has decreased.
Located 50 km (30 miles) north of Paris, Chantilly is celebrated for its chateau, its elegant racecourse and stables, and, not least, for the cryme chantilly (whipped cream) typically served on hot waffles.
There is a chateau and a racecourse in Chantilly.
There are no chateaus in Chantilly.
I can go in and search and pull up an attorney interested in child abuse and neglect, so when I get a case, I can target it, she says.
She can target a case on child abuse when she gets one.
Searching for attorneys interested in child abuse cases is not possible.
good morning do you have a computer a personal computer
Do you own a personal computer?
Is your mother a computer?
No more than six members of the bipartisan board can be from any one political party.
Only six members of the board can be from one political party.
All members of the board are Republican.
And credit for that compassionate, optimistic idea goes to cruel, brain-dead sourpuss Bob Dole.
Credit goes to cruel, brain-dead sourpuss Bob Dole.
Bob Dole is not brain-dead.
It believes that reporting on information related to the existence and the condition of the stewardship PP&amp
The condition of the stewardship PP& is reported on, partially.
No one cares about the stewardship PP& and it has floated under the radar as of late.
Patients with alcohol problems experience an average of 1.32 injury-related events requiring outpatient or inpatient care per year.
Alcoholics tend to get hurt more often than ordinary people.
Alcoholics experience fewer injuries on average requiring medical care.
Johnny had slumped forward, his head on the table encircled by his limp arms.
Johnny's head and arms were on the table.
With his head straight and his arms firmly at his side, Johnny stood at the table.
you don't care about that huh
You don't have to worry about that.
You have to take care of that, don't you?
yes so that must that's before your time your parents might remember if they were here then
It probably happened so long ago that only your parents remember if they were here.
Your parents came to this country on a boat from Europe.
He quietly passed into the house and mounted the ramshackle staircase.
He entered the house without making a sound.
He charged through the front door of the house, causing a commotion.
Mandatory controls are not the only way to solve public health and environmental problems.
Public health and environmental problems can be solved by multiple actions.
Lowering budget is the only way to solve public health and environmental problems.
The addition of this staff will increase the state's legal service's advocacy staff by over one-third.
The new staff will lead to a 1/3 increase.
The new staff led to a 1/4 increase.
It's true that different pieces benefit from different treatment
Different treatment has benefited different pieces.
Different treatment has harmed different pieces.
Over a dozen studies have found significant associations between various measures of long-term exposure to PM and elevated rates of annual mortality (e.g.
Studies have found associations between long term exposure to PM and elevated rates of mortality.
There is no correlation between PM exposure and mortality rates.
While he was president of the Grand Rapids Bar Association in 1995- 96, Lalley decided to make legal services to the poor a top priority.
Legal services for the poor became a top priority.
Lalley was president of the Grand Rapids Bar Association for ten years.
uh they can declare anything they want and they can actually rig it if they really wanted to vote Republican they could go in the primary and say they were voting Democrat and then stack the ballot for someone that perhaps the Republican could beat but uh it's uh it's just a sad situation and uh i do think more needs to be done along that line to help to uh teach the people uh uh everyone uh more about what is going on with voting and with non voting so that uh we can make some start making some more intelligent decisions and it's going to take these young you know it's going to take the uh
I think more needs to be done to help teach people about what is going on with voting and non-voting.
It's going to take these young kids a long time to learn how to vote.
Little is known about the kingdom, though it is documented that at this time the Celtic monks St. Kentigern and St. Herbert introduced Christianity to the region.
There is little information about the kingdom.
There is a lot of information about the kingdom.
On Saint-Martin, lingering over a seaside dinner is the preferred after-dark activity on the French side, where most lights go out by 9 or 10pm.
Bedtime comes early on Saint-Martin's French side.
All night parties and clubbing are the preferred nighttime activity on Saint Martin's French side.
It is not as if the Times cleans up Clinton's quotes
The Times does not adjust or alter their quotes from Clinton in any way.
The Times is well-known for manipulating the quotes they use and changing them for their own malicious uses.
And Tice was onto Sunbeam before almost anyone else.
Tice knew about Sunbeam.
Tice didn't know what Sunbeam was doing.
They wouldn't be sure I could ever eat again much less fight.
There wouldn't be sure if I could eat or fight again.
They were certain I could eat and fight again.
so it's kind of tough and they say that the driving tomorrow is supposed to be really bad in the afternoon
They think that the driving conditions are going to be bad tomorrow afternoon.
They say tomorrow afternoon is a great time to go for a drive.
well it just so happens that my youngest is uh extremely sensitive uh where my oldest one uh you know i can scream at him and yell at him and he'll look at me with with
One of my children happens to be super sensitive while the eldest one is not.
All of my children are extremely sensitive, I cannot yell or scream at them.
The dilution water used in effluent toxicity tests will depend on the objectives of the study and logistical constraints, as discussed in Section 7, Dilution Water.
The diluted water is discussed in Section 7, Dilution Water.
The diluted water is outlined in Section 9, Distilled Water.
Institutionalizing trust was especially important for large organizations and federal entities that typically experienced a great deal of staff turnover.
Trust is important for large organisations and federal entities.
Trust was especially unimportant to more than 6 organisations.
Slate on Paper, our specially formatted print-out version of Slate, is e-mailed to readers Friday around midday.
Slate provides a printable version, designed to be printed.
Slate is only available to be consumed electronically.
The man got his teeth.
The man has teeth.
The man has no teeth.
Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the word around town has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley Barbour.
The Department of Justice seems to be going after the republicans with more intensity then the Democrats they have investigated.
The Department of Justice has it out for the Democrats.
We've always gotten along, says Lalley.
Lalley believes we have always gotten along.
They did not get along according to Lalley
oh they that was very very fortunate for them because that could have really been disastrous
That was really lucky.
How unlucky for them!
If the evaluation process does not conform to the RFP the agency runs a greater risk of a successful bid protest by losing vendors.
Losing vendors are more likely to initiate a successful bid protest if the process does not conform to the RFP.
Compliance to the RFP increases the risk of a successful bid protest by losing vendors.
But how did Jon know him?
But how did Jon come to know this man?
This man was unknown to all, including Jon.
These organizations recognize that stakeholders will have a lot to say in determining whether their programs succeed or fail.
These organizations have stakeholders that have a lot of say.
These organizations are independent from any stakeholders.
We, in turn, understand the vital role they play in helping to assure that no client goes unserved.
They have an important role in assuring clients are tended to.
We want all the clients to be unserved.
They presented me with a theory of stellar evolution which I had to accept and which is more nearly valid than anything our own astronomy has ever been able to devise, if we except possible lost theories dating from Beforethewars.
They had a good theory that I accepted.
Their theories were all ridiculous.
She was looking dreadful, so white and upset.
She looked white and upset.
She looked happy and was blushing.
I should not like to say myself.
I don't want to answer that.
I will tell you everything.
The entire Pacific coast from Santa Barbara south through Orange County is one big water playground.
The Pacific coast has been described as a single water playground.
The entire Pacific coast is far from a single giant water playground.
Snow Sports
Some sports are in the snow.
It's too hot for winter sports.
It tore into the cloak of fog that surrounded them.
It tore into the fog that enveloped them.
It brought with it a thick, noxious cloud of fog.
and i think there was a lot of a lot of tearing of emotions and i think that if anything that when Schwartzkopf he was saying the idea that we learned we learned we learned a lot from Vietnam
There was a lot of information gained from Vietnam despite the emotions.
We didn't get anything from Vietnam.
5 percent, according to the Social Security Trustees' intermediate actuarial projections.
The SST's intermediate actuarial projections say five percent.
The intermediate actuarial projection of the Social Security Trustees is one percent.
There, accompanying a story about politicians speaking their minds about other countries, you'll find a looming picture of Al Gore, cropped so close that none of his hair is visible and you can see the sweat that's bubbling out of every giant pore in his face.
You;ll find a close cropped photo of a sweaty Al Gore with large pores and visible hair loss with the story about politicians speaking their minds about other countries.
The photo of Al Gore was cropped closely but you could not see his pores and his hair looked great.
have no hope for solutions but um i do keep myself somewhat abreast of the issue i have worked with uh uh a little bit with refugees from Southeast Asia uh who've come over um you know to escape the genocide programs that are over there and seen you know heard about some of the problems that they've had and i'm also fairly sensitive to the issues about how open should the borders be because i in general like a smaller rather than a larger population to the land area and um
I have worked with refugees who have come to escape genocide and I like to keep myself somewhat aware of the issue.
I don't work and I don't like to stay informed about any different issues.
For example, to answer a question about how programs to serve handicapped children are working, we might select the cases of preschool and elementary programs; we might further select within preschool programs, those for the hearing impaired and those for the orthopedically impaired.
To see how programs are working we can look at empirical data.
To see how programs are working you can not look at empirical data.
Duty-free sugar imports from Hawaii were eventually granted by the US, in exchange for rights to a military base at Pearl Harbor in the future.
The US gained rights to military bases at Pearl Harbor.
US never had rights to Pearl Harbor and never had a relationship with Hawaii.
5. A uniter, not a divider.
A unifier not a separator.
A divider, not a uniter.
well it just depends on where you go for instance if you went down to the sea shore it would be wonderful a nice breeze blowing in from the water
Down by the seashore there is a nice breeze blowing.
The seashore is not wonderful.
And as the discount rate rises, it's not surprising if stock prices fall.
Stock prices fall as discount rates rise.
The discount is plummeting and the stock price is rising.
(In column 1, compare line 2 and line 5).
Line 2 and line 5 must be compared in column 1.
Line 3 and line 5 must be compared in column 6.
on their own and they don't really feel the family um closeness that we had when oh when i was growing up my my mother didn't work you know and when she did uh a part time job she was there you know it wasn't like she
When we were kids, the only work my mother could get was part time.
My mother had a full time job when we were small so we were never close.
Chavis was ousted after revelations that he used NAACP funds to settle sexual-harassment suits filed against him by former employees.
It was revealed that Chavis used NAACP funds to settle sexual-harassment suits.
It has not been proven that Chavis used NAACP funds for harassment suits.
it uh it's just really pretty with the snow and the ice and all of the lights not necessarily not the ice i should keep leave the ice out of it but the snow is real pretty
It's really pretty with the snow, ice, and the lights.
I hate the snow and ice.
Of course, in some sense Dunlap must think that growth is important, because otherwise he wouldn't have spent billions of dollars to buy Coleman and First Alert and Signature Brands.
Dunlap has invested billions in acquisitions of other companies.
Dunlap got Coleman, First Alert and Signature Brands for free.
we're we're into this breeding business pretty heavy now and he
We are pretty invested with this breeding business.
We never thought about getting into the breeding business.
Good job tenure, that is--because in yet another column, she sneers at Sara Davidson for working on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman . Why can't the silly creature get a perfect job like hers?
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, was worked on by Sara Davidson.
The silly creature can definitely get a job like hers.
Oh, honey, it's something adults do in bed.
When adults are in bed, this is what they sometimes do.
That isn't what adults do when they go to bed.
case study is to obtain as complete a picture as possible of what is going on in an instance, and why.
A complete picture is needed to see what is going on in the instance.
A complete picture is not needed to see what is going on in the instance.
Less exclusive jewelry stores abound around town.
Town periphery is the place to get cheaper jewelry.
Jewelry is expensive wherever you go.
For most families, real estate remains the most important asset-two-thirds of households owned their homes in 1998.
Real estate is an important asset.
Real estate is not important for people's financial futures.
For the most part, agencies have provided GAO with requested information within agreed-upon time frames.
Most agencies have supplied the needed information within the allotted time.
It has taken longer than the agreed amount of time for each agency to provide the information.
Ibiza lies nearer to the coast of North Africa than to the Catalonian city of Barcelona.
The coast of North Africa is closer to Ibiza than the Catalonian city of Barcelona.
The Catalonian city of Barcelona is closer to Ibiza than the coast of North Africa.
The best view of the whole citadel can be had from the terrace of the Jaisal Castle Hotel.
Jaisal Castle Hotel has a view of the city.
The best view of the citadel is from a government building.
right yeah in fact um since Baltimore i see i'm not a you don't know the Baltimore Baltimore's on the water and what
You are not aware that the Baltimore is on the water.
Cleveland I see I am a you don't know the Cleveland is near the forrest.