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Your sales in the pro world can fly or fail for many reasons - but I don’t think that MarySue-ishness is a defining one.
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A trim does wonders: makes the hair more manageable, while still keeping the glorious baby-ishness of his curls.
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Some definite squeaky bum-ishness toward the end though...
Wales v England: five things we learned from Six Nations 2011 opener 2011
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Which I think is a rather clever way of doing it … leaving “Earth One” open so that the comics in that universe can sound important and self-sufficient instead of the knockoff-ishness inherent in calling it “Earth Two” or similar.
DC Comics announces Earth One | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Last week, David Rosenberg, the Gluskin Sheff economist formerly of Merrill Lynch, whose words have become must-read barometers of bear-ishness, said that the chances of a double-dip recession in the U.S. are now "higher than 50-50."
Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Nonetheless, for all his passive loser-ishness, Brother Ben remains the hippest and most relevant member of the team.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Last week, David Rosenberg, the Gluskin Sheff economist (formerly of Merrill Lynch), whose words have become must-read barometers of bear-ishness, said that the chances of a double-dip recession in the U.S. are now "higher than 50-50."
Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession 2010
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Nonetheless, for all his passive loser-ishness, Brother Ben remains the hippest and most relevant member of the team.
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Last week, David Rosenberg, the Gluskin Sheff economist (formerly of Merrill Lynch), whose words have become must-read barometers of bear-ishness, said that the chances of a double-dip recession in the U.S. are now "higher than 50-50."
Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession 2010
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Marcela Valdes: The Savage Detectives is a marvelously structured, playful book about many things, but what interests me — and, perhaps, a good place to start this conversation — is the way Roberto Bolaño portrays the clique-ishness of the Mexican poetry world during the 1970s.
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