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Question: I have lately been reading accounts of the exploration of the western and northwestern deserts of Australia in the 1870s and I have become very aware of the effect absent necessities might have on the frequency of particular items in discourse.

Answer: Lately I've been reading about exploration of Australia's western and northwestern deserts in the 1870s, and I've noticed how often absent necessities are noted in the accounts.

Question: B ribing poor women and girls to implant Norplant would coerce them into not having children, thus violating their rights to reproductive choice, like the one-child-per-family policy and coerced abortions in China.

Answer: B ribing women and girls to implant Norplant would coerce them into not having children, violating their rights to reproductive choice.

Question: "Robb Wilton, that acclaimed and dearly-loved British comedian of the thirties and forties, introduced one of his best wartime monologues with the classic first lines,"

Answer:
"Robb Wilton introduced one of his best wartime monologues with the classic first lines,"