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But Næss -- wary of the apparent totalitarian political implications of Leopold's position that individual interests and well-being should be subordinated to the holistic good of the earth's biotic community (see section 4 below) -- has always taken care to distance himself from advocating any sort of

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  1. special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
  2. the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

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  • I pointed to the five ss, and asked if he had any suggestions. —  between silk and cyanide
  • But Næss -- wary of the apparent totalitarian political implications of Leopold's position that individual interests and well-being should be subordinated to the holistic good of the earth's biotic community (see section 4 below) -- has always taken care to distance himself from advocating any sort of —  Environmental Ethics
  • n, i.e., the term ss … s0 with n occurrences of the successor operator s. —  Provability Logic
  • All that had been the business of Flaüss, the Envoy — which had either gone horribly wrong or … hadn’t. —  The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
  • If ((Details) | | (A_TimeIdle > (IdleTime-5) * 1000)) hey man, seems to be working with a splashimage too ... i'll post some code later if you need it, otherwise i'm going to write a function to control it ... could be useful in some of my scripts to show status of a script in case a ss is activated i've noticed no functional difference on xp or vista, but some ss's do not cooperate ... i've tried these with success: —  AutoHotkey Community
 

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weiß · angstschweiß

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