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There are plenty of reasons to go back to the world we abandoned 30 years ago—some fanciful and futuristic, others quite practical.

At the more practical end, the moon offers unique opportunities for scientific research.

but I've seen what looks like a perfectly abled person pull up and practically run into the store," Carney said.

Some 20,000 civil servants -- clerical staff, lab technicians, licensed practical nurses, school custodians and teachers' aides -- walked off the job April 1, after negotiations with the two unions representing them broke off.

More practically, Saturday's concert offered a preview of music that Tilson Thomas and the orchestra will perform next week at Carnegie Hall.

In his presentation, Brubaker will argue that ethnicity, race and nation should be conceptualized not as substances, entities or collective individuals, but rather thought of in terms of more practical categories, cultural idioms, institutional forms, political projects, and contingent events.

They don’t scratch, they don’t absorb grease, they’ll last forever and they can be formed into practically any shape or texture.

Is the report going to be narrative or analytical or prescriptive?Will he leave people to reach their own conclusions?Will he make recommendations?There's no way of knowing.' The Law Lord, whose inquiry was in great part an exposé of Number 10's presentational fixations, appears to be determined to keep them in ignorance as long as is practical.

When she died, in 1989, "I was practically cut out of her will.

In turn, that's helped make cowboy poets and writers like Baxter Black practically household names.

Only in Yemen did these laws continue to be in force until the departure of practically all the Yemeni Jews in 1950.

The prospect of Israeli-Syrian negotiations, Sharon's unilateral declaration and the expansion of Israel's security fence have all combined to create a new sense of urgency among Palestinians, refocusing attention on the practical need to return to the negotiating table.

Each group will spend five days on campus designing and building an intelligent robot with practical “real-world” application, according to Soysal.

That"s why practical Americans guided by the experience of Swedes worked out a psychological training for the families that have to pass through divorce.

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