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Horror Mall was alotted a certain number of copies, so its possible they just listed how many they had to sell on their site.
Limited quantities remain: The Ties That Bind DVD – Brian Keene 2009
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Where were the Tea Party elements during the last 8 years when Bush was sending our boys to an illicit war spending billions a month, not to mention the large tax cuts he alotted the rich, no oversight or regulation on anything.
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The sentence given to Osama bin Laden's former limo driver, Salim Hamdan, was so light that the Bush administration considered holding him as an enemy combatant after serving his alotted sentence.
Thiessen's misleading attack on due process Adam Serwer 2010
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RE: 8 texts in one minute: Actually, if you go over the alotted 160 characters on most phones, it'll just run the text onto another message, and another.
State Should Close Loophole to Public Disclosure Law « PubliCola 2010
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If NASA can't pull off a lunar outpost in the time already alotted, why should we believe it's capable of getting us to Mars in any way more meaningful than a flags and footprints exercise?
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These things cost money and families know better than to let it go, and they end up owing more money than they had alotted for the project.
Updates 2009
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I love that the debate always revolves around the conceit that no one man could read this much in the time alotted.
Matthew Yglesias » Stan Collender: Critics of Stimulus Bill’s Length are “Ridiculous” 2009
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But yeah, it was really really REALLY out of nowhere and could have been handled so much better AND in the time alotted.
Pony Positive Day Two rabid1st 2009
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The story on Reid published in today's paper was not alotted enough space to include Reid's full explanation of his philosophy on being "uncommon."
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Later, Rothstein takes to task Said's analysis of Jean Genet, who, like more than a few aging artists at the end of their alotted span, was inspired to adopt the revolutionary ideals of a younger generation.
Think of all you'll derive just by being alive Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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