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  • Coverage: Japan's health-insurance sys-tem covers everybody, including illegal aliens.

    It’s Just What the Doctor Ordered 2010

  • Over time, the adversary principle at the heart of the legal sys-tem -- opponents fight and justice emerges -- has been adopted by the media and the outside world.

    White And Blue 2008

  • Then, battling on through the dwindling outposts of man; world after world, system after sys-tem.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • "Colonel, are you familiar with the asteroid belt between the sixth and seventh planets in this sys-tem?"

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • "Have you ever heard of the Hinarian coding sys-tem?"

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • The local police mutinied; the legal sys-tem staffed by Kashmiris was close to collapse; more than a hundred thousand Hindus fled; the hospitals were flooded with tortured and maimed young men; and thousands of young men were missing, presumed dead, or in Pakistan. —

    The Birth of a Nation Mishra, Pankaj 2000

  • He wrote them at a time when détente with the Soviet Union was the fashion, when even conservative opinion no longer believed that the Soviet sys-tem was propelled by murderous and expansionist energies.

    The Man Who Was Right Ignatieff, Michael 2000

  • California, 403 U.S. 15, 24 (1971), for example, this Court held that the First Amendment guarantee of free speech and expression derives from "the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political sys-tem rests."

    Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief Dworkin, Ronald 1997

  • Its root sys-tem, Tse-Mallory observed, must be astonishing.

    The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Its root sys-tem, Tse-Mallory observed, must be astonishing.

    The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

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