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climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric
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Paper lice feed on microscopic spores of a certain fungus that grows p
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The current trend toward specialization in nearly all occupa
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Timelines are one of the most commonplace classroom tools us
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Political Analyst: After the Soviet Union collapsed, some ho
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In certain congested urban areas, commuters who use public transportat
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The director of programming at NNN, the National News Network, proclai
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Many literary detectives have pored over a great puzzle conc
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Two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked to hereditary breast cancer. Ther
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The president’s nominees to federal circuit courts have been judged co
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Finance Minister: Last year was disastrous for our manufacturing secto
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Company X manufactures swim wear and planned to launch a new line of
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The people of Prohibitionland are considering banning the service of
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Country X imposes heavy tariffs on imported manufactured goods. Compan
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An independent analyst asserts that the new Pokia digital camera for m
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Scientists recently documented that influenza spreads around the world
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An internal survey revealed that some employees at Company Y had calle
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Decentralization enables divisions of a large institution to function
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Jacques Derrida famously proclaimed, "There is nothing outside the tex
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In response to the increasing environmental damage wrought by poachers
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According to some people, income tax should be done away wit
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Musicians typically record most of their albums before the age of 35.
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Contemporary literary scholars have come to discard the once
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Of all the high schools in the United States, Judd Academy is the one
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Most cable television companies currently require customers to subscri
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Studio executives carefully examine how a film performs on its opening
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Use of ecological theory for management of nature needs to follow diff
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Adoption agency representative: It is true that eight of our last ten
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For years, the debate over public education reform has centered on
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The theoretical justification of the link between customer satisfactio
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The more frequently employees take time to exercise during working hou
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In the pantheon of great thinkers, Karl Marx certainly ranks as one of
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The classical realist theory of international relations has long domin
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Most educated people of the eighteenth century, such as the
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The owner of a small convenience store observed that almost all custom
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On a certain deep space mission, the vessel’s computer indicated that
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