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Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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Years later, the exact content of these discussions would be-come highly controversial.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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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
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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…
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What's more, Argentina has been in political disarray for so long that citizens had be-come accustomed to caretaker governments.
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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.
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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.
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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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