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Aroca City currently funds its public schools through taxes on propert
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During the nineteenth century, occupational information about women th
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Historians have identified two dominant currents in the Russian women'
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Findings from several studies on corporate mergers and acquisitions
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Hotel bookings in Miami are only done through travel websites. In 2011
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A proposed change to federal income tax laws would eliminate deduction
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The total market value of real estate in Altonville has steadily decli
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Last August the XT chain of gasoline stations had a temporary sales pr
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Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from th
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In a new book about the antiparty feeling of the early political leade
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Conventional wisdom has it that large deficits in the United States bu
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Crows, herring gulls, and sparrows all live on the island of Firsten.
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The higher the level of certain vitamins and minerals in the bloodstre
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Black Americans are, on the whole, about twice as likely as White Amer
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Parasitic wasps lay their eggs directly into the eggs of various host
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Property taxes are typically set at a flat rate per $1,000 of official
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Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to humans by deer ti
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New grocery products benefit the manufacturer but not the grocer. If a
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The professionalization of the study of history in the second half of
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Each year red-winged blackbirds stop in a certain region of Midland Pr
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A prominent investor who holds a large stake in the Burton Tool compan
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Ten years ago, the country of Vorland adopted new automobile safety re
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Astronomer: Observations of the Shoemaker-Levi comet on its collision
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Krenlands steelmakers are losing domestic sales because of lower-pric
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Technological improvements and reduced equipment costs have made conve
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Urban air contains more sulfur dioxide than does rural air, and plants
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Gortland has long been narrowly selfsufficient in both grain and meat
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Traces of cultivated emmer wheat have been found among the earliest ag
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In the late 1980s, the population of sea otters in the North Pacific
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First-time computer buyers buying PXC home computers
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To reduce the danger to life and property posed by major earthquakes,
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Early in the twentieth century, Lake Konfa became very polluted. Recen
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Following several years of declining advertising sales, the Greenville
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The traditional treatment of strep infections has been a seven-day cou
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Some airlines allegedly reduce fares on certain routes to a level at
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Sales of telephones have increased dramatically over the last year. In
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In a certain wildlife park, park rangers are able to track the movemen
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Investment banks often have conflicting roles. They sometimes act for
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Environmental organizations want to preserve the land surrounding the
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With a record number of new companies starting up in Derderia and with
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Some species of Arctic birds are threatened by recent sharp increases
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