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Many governments have passed laws requiring that bicyclists must
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The recent decline in the employment rate was spurred by pr
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Excluding purchases by businesses, the average amount spe
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In the argument, the portions in boldface play which roles?
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Federal law prohibits businesses from reimbursing any employ
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Board member: As a longtime member of the college's board of
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Studies show that repeated exposure to an allergen can trigger anaphyl
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Research over the past two decades has established the centrality of s
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When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vici
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Because postage rates are rising, Home Decorator magazine plans to max
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QOTD # 28 Stars create energy through the process of fusion.
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Electric utilities pay less for low-quality coal per ton delivered tha
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Technically a given category of insurance policy is underpriced if,
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Teenagers are often priced out of the labor market by the government-m
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Teachers are effective only when they help their students become indep
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Tony: A short story is little more than a novelist's sketch pad. Only
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Kayla: Many people are reluctant to shop in our neighborhood because s
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Letter to the editor: If the water level in the Searle River Delta con
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For three years, while constructing a, new elementary school
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Given an experiment set-up, each participant
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Chinese‐food stalls make up 35 percent of all stalls in California. Vi
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In an experiment, each volunteer was allowed to choose between an easy
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In terms of its prevalence, obesity is the leading disease in the Unit
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A certain cultivated herb is one of a group of closely related plants
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Gorilla populations have been ransacked by the Ebola virus
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