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As the United States demonstrated during its early development, it is
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Most cable television companies currently require customers to subscri
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1684
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The United States government has a long-standing policy of using feder
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Carcass
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In an attempt to improve the overall performance of clerical workers,
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30 Apr 2022, 11:23
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The advent of online education in the first decade of the 21st century
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Social Science
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Source: Kaplan
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1689
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Carcass
21 Jan 2023, 06:17
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Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to humans by deer ti
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Carcass
24 Jul 2022, 16:31
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Historically, relations between workers and employers in the United St
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Theater Critic: The play La Finestrina, now at Central Theater, was wr
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Adoption agency representative: It is true that eight of our last ten
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Firms traditionally claim that they downsize (i.e., make permanent per
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New observations about the age of some globular clusters in our Milky
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Countries that legalized the drug X twenty years ago, because a signif
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For the last several years, the most popular breed of dog in the Unite
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Because postage rates are rising, Home Decorator magazine plans to max
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21 Sep 2021, 10:13
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Whales originated in the freshwater lakes and rivers of ancient Asia a
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17 Jul 2022, 10:20
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While there is no blueprint for transforming a largely government-cont
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In the late 1980s, the population of sea otters in the North Pacific
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Amusement rides at permanent fairgrounds are dismantled once a year f
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20 Aug 2021, 07:23
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If we look at the world around us and all that is happening therein,
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The increasing pressure on American businesses to pursue cost-cutting
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17 Dec 2022, 05:30
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Some species of Arctic birds are threatened by recent sharp increases
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28 Sep 2022, 09:14
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The chemicals division at Company M spent 4% of its 2008 budget on mar
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1724
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16 Sep 2024, 19:16
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Historians have long thought that America was, from the beginning, pro
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Humanities
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The societies in which shamanism has flourished have been small,
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07 Jan 2024, 01:28
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Theorists are divided about the cause of the Permian mass extinctions.
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19 Dec 2022, 05:15
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Traditionally, the first firm to commercialize a new technology has be
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26 Apr 2022, 09:26
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Computer programs exist that attempt to generate random numbers, but n
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1728
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VerbalBot
31 Jul 2024, 01:26
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Our police academy no longer requires its applicants to pass a physi
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1729
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24 Jul 2021, 01:08
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Southern Haul Cargo Railway owns all of the railroad tracks in the cit
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1735
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09 Jul 2021, 09:16
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An internal survey revealed that some employees at Company Y had calle
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1737
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12 Nov 2024, 19:57
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In American Genesis, which covers the century of technological innovat
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1737
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mashres15
22 Feb 2023, 18:42
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The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was, perhaps, the most important Briti
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1741
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Carcass
25 Jun 2023, 09:43
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The ancient Greek playwright Euripides followed the established conve
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1741
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prachimishra
16 May 2021, 21:40
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An advertisement designed to convince readers of the great durability
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Strengthen
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1745
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motion2020
24 Nov 2021, 19:01
3
When a major fire occurs in the city of Springfield, the number of med
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1746
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VerbalBot
26 Apr 2024, 04:07
2
A key decision required of advertising managers is whether a hard-sel
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Carcass
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1747
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Carcass
13 Jul 2022, 13:55
5
For several years, per capita expenditure on prescription drugs in Vor
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1747
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Carcass
18 May 2022, 07:03
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A recent study of people who had successfully lost weight and implemen
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1747
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eldorado21
21 Feb 2021, 18:35
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Solar ponds are bodies of water in which circulation is incomplete and
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Carcass
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1748
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Carcass
15 Oct 2022, 00:29
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Historically, famines have generally been followed by periods of risin
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GeminiHeat
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1748
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Carcass
12 Sep 2021, 07:48
2
In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two docume
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GeminiHeat
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1753
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rx10
21 Nov 2021, 20:09
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Smokers who switched to a low-tar, light or mild brand of cigarette
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1754
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nibingo
02 Aug 2021, 06:13
7
Toward the end of the 19th century, many scientists thought that all t
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Science
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1755
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GeminiHeat
08 Mar 2023, 02:23
3
Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000
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Carcass
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1758
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VerbalBot
29 Sep 2023, 22:01
1
Nearly all adults in the community of Amaretti, including pregnant wom
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1758
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Carcass
04 Aug 2021, 07:16
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More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily
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Carcass
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1759
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Carcass
01 Sep 2022, 00:07
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A prominent investor who holds a large stake in the Burton Tool compan
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1759
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Carcass
27 Jul 2022, 13:58
2
Comparison of the growth rings of ancient trees enables scientists to
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Carcass
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1762
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Ks1859
09 May 2021, 02:28
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Since the late 1970s, in the face of a severe loss of market share in
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1763
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GeminiHeat
08 May 2022, 05:32
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In these modern times of fast food lunches, take-away dinners and read
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GeminiHeat
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1764
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rx10
12 Jul 2021, 08:02
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