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First, why would allowing the interplay of free-market forces imply that stadiums, movie houses, and other mass entertainment centers would become dominated by wealthy people?
stadiums, movies houses, and mass entertainment centers exist in the economy.
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to the credible evolution of what's really become of me.
What I've really become can be understood through this believable evolution.
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Simply have their bouquets be identical and perhaps have them walk together.
The couple won't take the advice of the author.
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As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.
Little did Michael know that the cops had bugged him prior to his incriminating discussion with his partner.
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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.
Joe's driving records were perfect, without accidents or tickets.
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Along with many Americans, I first caught Andy Kaufman on the Tonight Show in the mid-'70s.
In the 70's Andy Kaufman appeared on the Tonight Show.
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Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.
Critics who wanted to kill the novel 40 years ago want to save it today.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.
1 in 100 Americans believe racial discrimination is a problem.
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A boxer cannot fight with a heart condition or dementia.
A boxer needs to have either a heart condition or dementia to fight.
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Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
The pop artist's controversy is forgotten to the general population.
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That fragmented system without oversight had its deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills).
The broken project made nurses quit their jobs.
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When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there.
The stores in the mall are very large for your shopping pleasure.
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In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic.
The audience was quite due to confusion of Saxton's made up stories.
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Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
The conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law.
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As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors.
The e-rate discount covers all expenses related to computers and teachers.
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It will be pointed out again and again that Bradley is just as awkward a campaigner as Gore.
No one says that Bradley and Gore are awkward campaigners.
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Talk about when you became out of touch with her and maybe why.
At some point you lost a connection with her.
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No horned helmet was found, but the discovery is complicating--perhaps overturning--theories about the settlement of North America.
A horned helmet confirmed theories of North American settlement.
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Time says Dolly the cloned sheep could be a fake.
Dolly is the first cloned animal.
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If that is the administration's strategy, it is foolhardy.
All strategist believes administrations have wonderful policies.
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Maybe lime green was a big mistake, but it's his mistake to live with.
Acid green would have been a better choice
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Newsweek notes that while the Dalai Lama promotes religious understanding and meditation, he opposes abortion, contraception, and homosexual acts.
Abortion, contraception, and homosexuality are all celebrated by the Dalai Lama.
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Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.
We're always called upon to admire the intelligence and sophistication of dolphins.
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People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally.
Homo Sapiens didn't care much about their descendants
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He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened.
He meant to stir up trouble everywhere he went.
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The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be.
The society in the movie would be unpleasant to live in.
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Is it the right-wing commissar Norquist, who defied subpoenas from the Thompson Committee about his role laundering campaign contributions for the Republican National Committee (he is contemptuous of the law)?
Norquist is clearly left-wing.
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What's to gain?
The person asking feels as though there could or could not be something to gain.
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Early diagnosis, new teaching techniques (emphasis on the arts, thematic programs), and new research into the brains of LD kids are starting to rectify a neglected problem.
LD kids are harmed by new teaching techniques.
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Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
The problem the altruists face is a very obvious problem.
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Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters?
You may face jail time for stealing candy from convenience stores.
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Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine.
Internet Explorer is the most performing browser
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As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him.
Noyce lead intel without making it dependent.
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For the remaining puzzle is why the world provided LTCM with so much money to lose.
The world provided LTCM with nothing.
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In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.
The casino will not be able to make a profit if they lose the gamblers.
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The movie's lone masterful sequence is the one that features a batch of blank, leggy dolls, along with people whose faces are hidden behind expressive masks.
The rest of the movie is boring and poorly directed.
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You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.
Black studies has some status.
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Ataterk was the founder of modern Turkey, which is no mean accomplishment (what have you done with your life?)
Ataterk experienced many struggles during the pursuit.
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We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave.
Haters require attention in order to succeed in their attempts to spread hate.
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I invite you to compare Reich's account with reality by clicking .
Often people's realities are the same.
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Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.
Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran started a war that would last for quite awhile.
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Since Yugoslavia's disintegration, Franjo Tudjman, a right-wing dictator, has exploited Croatian nationalist sentiments.
Franjo Tudjman, the dictator who belonged to the right-wing, has taken advantage of the attachment of Croatians to their coutry.
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The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment.
Looking at art is considered to be something for the poor.
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Variety reported that Harvey once locked a producer in a Cannes hotel room until the producer sold Miramax the rights to distribute his film.
Harvey was the subject of the Variety story.
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And eventually people are no longer eager to live on garbage dumps.
One day, men and women won't be avid to dwell on garbage dumps.
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Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?
A subsection of the group is middle-age.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The judge will decide on or after Nov. 10.
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Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in.
Milosevic has an entire platoon in the field.
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Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen.
Moyers is a helpful person to presidents.
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I hear you, she said by way of introduction.
Her claim was a way to introduce herself.
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Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there.
Holly Brubach is sometimes interested in writing a novel.
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Clark also expressed the hope that he and Redgrave could continue with their marriage.
Clark doubted his marriage with Redgrave would take place, and so he gave up on it.
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So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?
Affirmative action wasn't implemented in higher education or the military.
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Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here.
New ground was broken by Finkelstien.
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Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children.
His comics displayed grotesque characters of adults mixed with toddlers.
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Perverse as this may sound, Hitler is one reason why.
Hitler helped the Germans learn the importance of heirarchy.
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(Actually, some of the bombs were pretty good movies, like Wolf and Remains of the Day, while others, like the much-maligned Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger, were failures in an interesting way.)
Not many people thought bombed movies were really bad.
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He should mind his own lesson.
He is having a hard time figuring out the lesson.
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Moreover, typical viewers aren't apt to stumble upon these sites.
Typical viewers look at these sites on a daily basis.
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Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.
The health care system doesn't take care of everyone.
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After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he endorsed strong gun control legislation, and as recently as last year he declared that AK-47s are inappropriate for private use.
1968 blew his mind about using gats proper.
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I am fortunate enough to have two mothers-in- one who gave birth to my wonderful husband and one who is married to his father.
Her husband's name was John.
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If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.
It wasn't easy to improve the value of the citizenships
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A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision.
Two thirds of the people who almost die did not report experiencing a spiritual vision.
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(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)
Phillip Weiss attacked in the Wall Street journal.
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He has already demonstrated his acumen at milking the confrontation with Helms for its maximum theatrical and political value.
He has shown his with with milking the confrontation with helms and got maximum theatrical and political value out of it.
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Other fragments and versions will add to what Callahan has assembled, not overwrite it.
Other fragment and versions will always restrict what Callahan has assembled.
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In theory, mandatory insurance could make life better for everyone , including those who currently prefer to be uninsured.
Life is probably better for everyone if insurance was mandatory.
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That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory.
The theory of rat choice has been proven wrong.
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Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.
Moyers is a journalist.
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He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses.
The $118 purchase is the only purchase labeled as Sundry Expenses.
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Since communism closed shop in Russia, all the volunteers have disappeared.
Russia continues to be a strongly Communist country.
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Who ever heard of a wiener dog named Fluffy?
A Dachshund named Fluffy was not very well known.
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Greenberg's survey, for example, asks people who voted for Clinton to pick from a list of possible reasons why they did so.
Similar studies were carried out on behalf of the candidates that Clinton was running against, as well.
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Chamber of Commerce spent $7 million on advertising in support of GOP candidates
The institution would greatly fund the Republican candidates.
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There isn't much room in Schor's schema for even the interesting curlicues of spending culture, such as the joy in finding a bargain or personal variances in taste (e.g.
All people have the same taste for consumer goods.
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Columba Bush, wife of the Florida governor, declared only $500 worth of goods upon her return from a Paris vacation, but agents found $19,000 in receipts in her passport and fined her $4,100 on the spot.
The people at Customs let her go without a fine.
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This is a drop in the bucket.
It is a small amount, compared to what's needed.
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But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.
Sometimes a tutor does more harm than good.
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3. But the victory feels pretty hollow.
The victory was full of meaning and provided great enthusiasm to all those that were a part of it.
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I remember that some people complained President Eisenhower was distracted from the business of his office because he was out playing golf so much.
Golf enhanced President Eisenhower's term in office.
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In our conversation, he spoke very forcefully against the special prosecutor (now independent counsel) statute.
The Independent Counsel is appointed by the Senate.
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I might even vote for her.
When deciding between two candidates I probably would pick her.
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As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them.
Parole agents have sought to have more of an influence on criminals who are expected to reoffend.
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Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier.
Hedging investment has become very easy now.
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Contrary to press reports, it's possible that someone entered the house from outside.
The newspaper printed all the speculation and details.
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As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.
Bradley has many opportunities to pursue in campaigning.
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Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ...
Not one critic liked the movie that Alan Berliner directed.
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Pataki made this explicit at the bill's Albany signing History teaches us that the Great Hunger was not the result of a massive Irish crop failure, but rather a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.
Pataki was Irish, so he felt the British were to blame for the Great Hunger.
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Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.
She took the higher road in the situation.
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Goodman's explanations of Jewish ritual sometimes veer from the helpful to the condescendingly overexplicit, as if she were writing for young adults.
Goodman's explanations of Jewish ritual sometimes tend to stay on course with very conservative ideas.
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Theologians agree that prayer reinforces faith even when God doesn't intercede.
It is considered true that prayer reinforces religion
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The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican.
There would be plenty of back and forth speculation as to the former POV's party affiliation by the media.
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Vouchers, they argue, are simply a guise for the edu-welfare system to cast its net over several million more families and children.
Vouchers only cover a few families and children.
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While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.
The closing of branches will lead to the loss of many jobs.
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Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
No one ever holds a patent.
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TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy.
TV ads want broad appeal and to be stupid.
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Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.
In the 80's the U.S. Economy had rapid growth that dramatized Soviet economic incompetence.
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Just two weeks ago, I watched him on Rivera Live spin the nation on the subject of the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship.
He was on Rivera Live, two weeks ago, talking about the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship.
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I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another.
Group thinking is always more effective than the thoughts of a single
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