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These incentives encourage more business investment, a more productive workforce by raising the after-tax returns to education, and more work effort, all of which add to the economy's long-term capacity for growth.
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It was this reverence which led to the ritual known as capac cocha, in which children between the ages of six and ten were sacrificed and entombed to appease mountain deities.
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I was a fud profeshional fur meny meny yeers in one capac…capasit…doin one fing or anudder cept cookin.
chezbargr riot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The Jem'Hadar had been sent to the Alpha Quadrant by the Founders of the Dominion as a cultural observer, and it was in precisely that capac-ity that he maintained his frequent presence hi ops.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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The Trager cannot land, of course, but it would speed up the process, and alleviate the need for your ships to evacu-ate to another star system once they've reached capac-ity.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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'Beadie had been working closely with Fr Shelley since being hired last year in a low-key consultative capac ity, to advise upon the Church's dealings with the media.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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"Frozen in Heaven," the most interesting and moving, investigates evidence for the Inka rite of capac cocha, the sacrifice of children to the mountain gods.
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The capac - ity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires, and will receive no more than that of the meanest peasant.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH E. BOULDING 1968
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War, anger, hatred, and killing are renounced not so much out of compassion for the suffering they entail, but because they interfere with the individual's capac - ity to respond to God.
ETHICS OF PEACE ELIZABETH FLOWER 1968
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The emphasis was also on each individual's capac - ity for imagination, sensibility, ecstasy, on an ability spontaneously and intuitively to experience the uni - versal in the concrete, to achieve through self-culture and rapport with nature the higher self — to become one with an organic, living universe, with supreme reality, with absolute truth.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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