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  • Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

  • Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

  • Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

  • Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

  • But huge as the U.S. military "footprint" in Haiti had be-come -- almost 20,000 troops and enough vehicles and equipment to stretch from Philadelphia to Baltimore -- its size alone wasn't enough to step on those who wanted to kill or loot.

    Caught In The Middle 2008

  • Unfortunately they have be-come so deeply entrenched that almost every power of the Government is used to sabotage any attempt to expose and root them out…

    Paranoid? Who said anything about being paranoid? LuLu 2008

  • What's more, Argentina has been in political disarray for so long that citizens had be-come accustomed to caretaker governments.

    From Sap To Superhero 2007

  • The education of a new breed of domestic workers — butlers, maids, personal chefs and wine stewards — has be-come a cottage industry, and training centers like the Starkey International Institute for Household Management in Denver, Colorado, are booming.

    Luxury Goes Undercover 2007

  • In recent years, regrettably, the length has be-come rare, but some paperback publishers have revived it by way of samplers to promote their authors.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • William Blake said that "a man who persists in his folly will be-come wise," but at this time I am blindly unaware, even at such a re-move, that I have become addicted to the notion that everything will be solved in the afterglow of success, and I am being drawn inexorably toward its center, deeper and deeper.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

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