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She often worked sixty-hour weeks and he didn't want to reward that behavior by expressing an interest in what specific tasks she performed for Bill Gates.

She hoped Jeremiah would recognize the specific sound of their horn and return to the car.

But then, it should have: Every part had been handcrafted to his exact specifications.

More specifically, he trumpeted the great virtue of passively watching a stock bubble grow bigger and bigger and bigger until it bursts -- but making sure you have enough palliatives on hand to ease the pain.

Vlautin is a splendid writer, extremely specific and evocative, yet lean and lithe; he knows when to fold, and, rather than rambling on, is content to leave a story unfinished, in Carver-esque fashion refusing to tie things together with a fancy bow.

To succeed in forcing a person into commitment, Stowell has to prove to a judge that the person is a threat to himself or others by using specific evidence and calling witnesses.

Many young auteurs seemed consciously to target their films at a specific twentysomething audience - their films were knowingly cool, ironic, self-absorbed and detached.

Another key factor in President Bush's prospects for re-election will be the ongoing economic recovery, specifically the GDP-growth rate and unemployment figures compared to January, 2001.

In The American Dream (1961) he mocks that disappointment and their specific case becomes a general indictment of American consumerism.

What will probably remain after all this will be a sense of the Government having been cleared on the specific charge that the BBC pursued with such badly judged zeal, but having been exposed as little more than a team of political conjurors: illusionists who fail to distinguish between content and packaging, who believe that all problems are solved by finding the right form of words.

In sharp contrast to amorphous alerts of the past, the administration revealed that it was specifically concerned about the safety of U.S.-bound flights.

Since then, aggressive law enforcement actions have suggested the clandestine "chatter" among suspected terrorists may be producing information about specific flights.

Speith also argued that prior rehabilitation efforts have failed, and she specifically mentioned a sexual offense against another girl in 1990.

Moderate and modernist scholars, however, will say that these verses apply only to certain specific cases where non-Muslims have taken the initiative in aggression towards Muslims.

Unfortunately, at present there is no specific treatment for olivo-ponto-cerebellar degeneration.


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