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Hastened by the economic downturn and growing community discontent, clubs on the street began to close.
Clubs No Longer Aces on 27th Street Laura Kusisto 2011
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I have been reading a book from a decade or so ago by Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and it details how Reagan and his team figured out how, in effect, to economically blockade the Soviets, driving down oil prices from $40 a barrel when Reagan took office to as low as $10 a barrel.
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The leading citizens, including Joseph McCoy, Hastened to incorporate the town, pass some ordinances, and build a jail.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Hastened seed germination is essential for rapid and uniform seedling establishment and to shorten the time of exposure of seedlings to pests and other stresses.
Chapter 10 1992
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Hastened to receive them,/for such respect was due,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Hastened because she wanted to be back with Tripp as soon as might be.
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912
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Hastened to the scene of the fire, according to the custom of the Tammany district leaders, to give assistance to the fire sufferers, if needed.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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Hastened their flight, and 'gan like mad to scamper:
Ballads William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Starks, whose research project, Insights into Hastened Death, examined the experiences of 35 patients and their families in Washington and Oregon between 1996 and 2001.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARK HUME 2011
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Hastened to Mr. Hulme's; found him and three daughters waiting for me in a carriage, drove to the Penitentiary where vicious youths are endeavoured to be reclaimed by useful occupation, such as nails for sofas, cane-bottomed chairs and book-binding.
A Journey to America in 1834 Robert Heywood 1827
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