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The damned thing works.

It does not work.

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if you if you read the book it's uh even better the book was excellent

The book was better than the movie.

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(The Brooklyn Academy of Music plugs the play at its site.)

The play will be held two blocks from The Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Our overall objective was to determine whether best practices offer methods to improve the way DOD ensures that the design is stable early in the development process and whether having manufacturing processes in control before production results in better cost, schedule, and quality outcomes in DOD major acquisition programs.

The best practices turned out to be of no use for improvements.

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Instead, the payment constitutes a General Fund subsidy of the SMI trust fund.

There is no payment.

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So, do we vote for virtuosity in imitation or virtuosity in itself?

We should vote for one or the other as it is really important.

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If AltaVista's list of search refinements was generated by a human, for instance, it might be more helpful.

If AltaVista's list of search refinement suggestions were human-generated, they would be exponentially less effective.

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oh well well you you'll get it over with here

It will be done correctly here.

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oh yes it's a matter of time it's probably going to be another two to five years before they're really up to par where they should be and then i believe the majority of American people will

Getting up to par will take them another two to five years.

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and then gave us a good idea back you know some good information back on whether or not we were going to achieve those goals and yeah or not or what we needed to do so that we could achieve them and money we could put in at what time

We were listless and did not have anything worth aiming for.

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The modes of any period can easily be made to look stupid.

There are some periods with modes that simply can't be portrayed as stupid.

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Set among formal gardens on a bluff overlooking the Manzanares valley, on the site of the old Moorish fortress (which burned down in 1734), the immense and imperious residence is loaded with art and history.

There is plenty of art and history to be absorbed in the residence.

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In the First Jewish War (a.d.66 70), many thousands of Jews were massacred here, and thousands more died later in the Roman amphitheatre here in the name of entertainment.

The amphitheater was buried under many feet of desert sand before being uncovered last year by archaeologists.

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The Explorer struggled to keep his self-control.

The Explorer had no problems staying calm.

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it's um it's it's amazingly less expensive than it is

It's less expensive to go to a large daycare vs a nanny.

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Politicians call it constituent service.

A constituent service is what public officers call it.

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Although other types of forfeited property must be sold in order to recognize revenue, or constructively sold (if transferred to another Federal agency or placed into internal use), this is the last step in a process that is inherently nonexchange.

The government is not allowed to sell forfeited property.

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One of the drawings on view at MoMA is a diagram of the races, with the Jews identified as circumscised [ sic ] cut off from Earth.

Jews think of drawings on the MoMA as a diagram of the races teaching circumcision.

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He says this will make our system the best.

He says the system will be the best because the program is flawless.

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And, as you probably know, in presenting estimates of its future needs, the Postal Service used financial and operational data from fiscal year 1998 as a benchmark.

The Postal Service was unable to locate any financial and operational data.

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And since the pleasure derived from smoking marijuana is a core issue, consider a third Rats don't like pot.

Since the pleasure of smoking marijuana is a key issue, consider how a third Rats doesn't like pot because it makes them paranoid.

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uh not really i mean no more than any other company you know we buy their parts just as much as anybody else but uh no no real association with TI other than being in the same industry

Our company buys parts, like other companies.

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um um i like Texas um not having the state income tax and i hope that because um you know that we've had enough industry here that i guess it is that why we don't the industry here is able to to um fund the state because we have oil here and things i mean that's what i've always heard is that um

Texas' lack of a state income tax is something other states can easily emulate.

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you know to do it and that really gets kind of aggravating after a while because you're saying well i work full time too you know

You work full time as well which means you are very busy.

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yeah the other thing that we've done that that was really nice to see we had one of the financial companies um Hancock oh John Hancock company came out and their agents did a long term analysis based on salary and uh what we were planning what what what our uh goals were on a long term budget in terms of retirement kid's college paying off the house buying a different house

It was a huge shame that John Hancock came out because they had nothing to say.

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The participating lawyers say Ginsburg, a diehard Red Sox fan known for his trademark bow ties, is tough to turn down.

Ginsburg is exceptionally tough to refuse according to the lawyers.

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News says the death of JFK Jr. seemed almost ordained.

News reports the death of JFK Jr. seemed almost predestined.

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it's really refreshing so

It helps you get recharged after a long week.

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In addition, it provides case studies, lessons from experts, and a forum allowing users to share information or to ask questions.

The forum is lecture style with no opportunity for audience response.

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Was it possible that she had come to his help?

There was a possibility that she had come to help him.

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The complex now serves as a guesthouse for visiting creative artists.

The complex is now a guesthouse for foreign diplomats.

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The finely arched front doors are often at the top of a sturdy staircase over the street-level cellar.

At the top of staircases, they often used arched front doors.

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There are 18th-century royal portraits in the Salen Azul (Blue Room) and archives that preserve the document of privileges granted to the city by Alfonso X, the Wise, in the 13th century.

All documents from the era of Alfonso X were lost many years ago.

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i think that you you make of that what you wish and you can go the opposite direction and uh overdo all the frills and laces and flounces and what have you which don't belong in the uh at least in my opinion in the workplace uh but that that you can have a classical look without a lot of a great deal of adornment and what have you and still be very feminine because that was one thing i always fought against i started out as a physical education teacher

The more feminine a woman looks at work, the better.

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yeah there's a few of those here too

They're all over the place, you can't throw a ball without hitting one.

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Horrible crime.

The crime is seen as something horrible.

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This organization relied primarily on regular mail and telephone conversations to disseminate information about most things, including meeting agendas and real-time problem solving.

Mail and phone conversations were used to disseminate information.

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The port was passing from hand to hand.

They broke the port with their bare hands.

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Jon stood, taking a last look at Susan, and left.

Jon and Susan left together.

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In California, the client's rights to representation would be lost in certain administrative proceedings.

There are a lot of people in California who have lost access to their rights to representation.

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Finally, we discuss two measures of the cost of universal service, the entry pricing measure and the net avoided cost measure in the context of delivery profits.

The entry pricing measure is the most popular method for measuring costs.

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After Tarbena comes the finest scenery of bold, terraced mountains, wide undulating valleys, and scattered farms connected by mule tracks.

There are no beautiful sceneries after Tarbena.

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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside the United States.

You have to pay more in taxes if you are outside the US.

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Once darkness falls, the water in the bay is filled with luminescent micro-organisms that glow when agitated.

The bay no longer has any water.

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At the end he heaved a long sigh.

He sighed heavily at the end.

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A few long fairway shots away from Josephine's birthplace at La Pagerie is Martinique's 18-hole public golf course.

Josephine was born to hold a golf club and sink putts.

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However, not all critical processes will be new or unique to a specific weapon system.

However, all critical processes will be unique or new to a specific weapon system.

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Perhaps they didn't, because they had in mind the conclusion of Aesop's famous fable--the one about the mice who decided to protect themselves from their sly and treacherous enemy, the cat, by tying a bell around its neck.

Maybe they did because they thought about the end of the story and it was too dull.

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Its airy arcades reach out to the 900-year-old basilica and turn a corner past the soaring brick campanile to the Piazzetta and landing stage of St. Mark's basin (il Bacino), historic gateway to the Adriatic and distant ports beyond.

St. Mark's basin has historically been seen as a gateway to the Adriatic.

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Finally, to simulate the effects of allowance updating, the value of reallocated allowances can be calculated and subtracted from each unit's cost of generation - thereby inducing each unit to change its profit-maximizing level of generation in response to a given set of fuel, allowance, and electricity prices.

Value of reallocated allowances can be calculated and subtracted from each unit's cost/

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There are three other resorts along the strip, used almost exclusively by Israeli citizens.

The resorts of the strip do occasionally get visited by the British tourists.

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Nonetheless, becoming more efficient is not enough to remain competitive.

Success doesn't result from simply being more efficient.

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Dining room, bar.

It has no dining facilities.

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Some would have big media erect Fifth Columns within their walls, but navel-gazing doesn't automatically impress, as the Times-Mirror flagship Los Angeles Times learned after publishing a 30,000-word self-examination on the Staples Center scandal.

The Times-Mirror flagship Los Angeles Times learned that navel-gazing doesn't always impress.

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Tradition says that a woman wiped the sweaty, bloody face of Jesus here and an imprint was left on the cloth.

The cloth has only blood and sweet on it.

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right knowledge at the right time.

knowing the things that are learned at a specific time.

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That should really stir things up.

That will not change anything.

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Well before the fall of communism, Congress passed comprehensive sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Congress did not support apartheid in South Africa.

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A piece suggests that Americans aren't seduced by Republican offers of a generous federal tax cut.

Americans are in love with the Republican tax plan.

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Countless Renaissance and Baroque sculptors have drawn inspiration from the friezes on the triple Arch of Septimius Severus (honoring a third-century emperor who died in York, England, the northernmost boundary of the empire).

The Arch of Septimius Severus' friezes have served as a source of inspiration for many Baroque and Renaissance sculptors.

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exactly but they took you know whatever the majority was so i didn't know if that was just something for drama or that's truly the way it is i always thought it had to be unanimous

They didn't require it to be unanimous.

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Most EDs provide very limited alcohol services.

ED's provide services for alcohol and many other things also.

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Winter sports are one of Hokkaido's main draws for domestic tourism, with popular ski resorts at Teine Olympia (outside Sapporo), Niseko, and Kiroro.

Hokkaido has a lot of fun winter sports.

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I've always favored the alternative plan--small, unmanned probes, along with a gigantic annual bonfire of $1,000 bills folded into origami cranes.

I didn't like the alternative plan.

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yeah those are few and far between though

There are a large number of them nowadays.

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A piece profiles new for-profit prisons specializing in geriatric felons and worries that they will cut services to bolster profits.

No one is talking about the for-profit prisons housing the geriatric.

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In such cases, the reason for not including the agency comments will be stated in the report.

The agency comments will provide adequate reflection and will be noted in future reports as well.

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'And no, I'm not going to kill you. Possibly.'

I won't kill you today, but maybe tomorrow.

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An additional reporting standard for financial audits conducted in accordance with GAGAS

There are additional reporting standards for financial audits.

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Glendalough is part of the Wicklow Mountains National Park, an area of about 20,000 hectares (49,421 acres), which includes most of upland Wicklow, with spectacular scenery, wildlife, and rare flora.

Glendalough is 20,000 hectares and has spectacular scenery.

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Even if you're a linguistic dud, try to learn a handful of Italian words or expressions.

Even if you are bad with language, attempt to pick up some Italian expressions.

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especially around bonus time

It is hard, especially around bonus time.

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employees to handle return processing workload during the annual filing season, IRS plans to increase the number of permanent employees and expand their job responsibilities to include compliance work that they can do after the filing season.

IRS is going to expand the job responsibilities of permanent employees.

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Jon caught Adrin's rapier tip in the points of the falcon wings of his rapier's guard.

Jon caught Adrin's rapier tip in the guard of his own rapier.

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Why open a gas station if nobody has a car?)

There will always be a need for gas stations, no matter what.

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I heard a thump.

There was perfect silence.

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NONFEDERAL PHYSICAL PROPERTY -Physical properties financed by grants from the Federal Government, but owned by state and local governments.

The Federal Government will sometimes purchase firefighting equipment for local governments.

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A curious competition is held in Wasdale each November.

Every June, Wasdale has an interesting competition.

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You'll see what I mean." The throb of the motor came through the open window, and Miss Howard rose and moved to the door.

The engine could be heard through the open window.

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The mandrake overseer had started ponderously toward him.

The tall mandrake was bigger than he thought.

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Last week's Whew!

Whew of last week!

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In 1999, an additional 100 paintings were added to the collection.

There were no extra paintings added in the year 1999.

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detecting material misappropriations is an objective of control over safeguarding of assets, understanding this type of control can be essential to planning the audit.

Understanding such controls can be vital when planning an audit.

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I still had to pay the ticket . . . I just figure if you are rich you can afford a lawyer, if you are poor you take what you get, said Grant, a resident of the Mayetta section of Stafford Township.

I still had to pay the ticket, which was a whopping $500.

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Also, if State and Federal excise taxes remain at the current levels, tax revenues will decrease over time because of decreased sales.

State and Federal excise taxes have been at this level for less than a year.

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good idea

The idea was the best I've heard.

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but i put it in a nice glass bowl and um some people don't like that that film on the pudding so you can put uh Saran Wrap over the top

A glass bowl and Saran Wrap are both necessary to keep everyone happy.

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In earlier reports and testimonies, we observed that top leadership must play a critical role in creating and sustaining high-performing organizations.

Previous research determined that individuals who excel as leaders share similar personality traits.

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I could only hope that we had enough time to clear the blast radius.

I kept praying that we were fast enough to get out of the bomb's impact zone.

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North she would be captured by the Eye.

The Eye was a threat to the North.

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Nationalism never completely disappeared, however, and in the latter part of the century there has been a concerted (though peaceful) effort to gain self-determination for Scotland.

Nationalism had always somewhat been there and the Scottish people tried to gain their self-worth back.

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yeah and that's that's funny you're in human resources and i'm in uh health and safety

I'm in a different department than you.

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In January of each year, LSC distributes a Case Review Form.

The Case Review Form comes out in January only after the previous year has been summed.

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The craziest poor sucker in a group of 20,000 bidders on the Internet is likely to be crazier than the craziest one among 200 in a Burbank hotel ballroom.

120,000 people bid for it on the internet.

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which provided the additional funding.

There was no money available.

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A ten-minute walk east on Belford Road brings you to two important art galleries.

There are at least two art galleries on Belford Road.

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The carriage creaked and groaned in protest; the whole thing wavering with stress.

The carriage made a lot of noise.

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For his experiments, he used exclusively this yogurt, it didn't provoke any unexpected gastric sensations like the natural ones, without those stabilizing E-numbers (E298, E301, E980).

He was worried that any other yogurt would ruin his experiments.

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The region divides into an eastern half, Haute-Normandie, along the Seine Valley, similar in scenery to the Ile-de-France; and the more rugged Basse-Normandie to the west, more akin to neighboring Brittany.

The region has 50 square miles of mountains and 20 square miles of forest.

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The National Trust runs the boat, which resembles the Venetian rowboats, and the plush interior takes one back to the genteel times when tourism was just in its infancy, when this steamer ride would have been just one part of a European Grand Tour.

The design of the current boats is inferior to those of the older Venetian design.

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