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Analysts noted the headline figure's gain was not surprising and to a certain extent masks what Japan's economy is truly facing.
Japan Economy Rebounds From Earthquake Takashi Nakamichi 2011
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Looking back over the seat, I saw that I was parked in the spare drive of the cowboy figure's property.
The Good Year Jesse Crockett 2011
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The Republicans still get more blame than Democrats for the country's economic problems, but that figure's down from 53 percent in May to 41 percent now.
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Here's the deal, GOPers: What Americans REALLY hate is HYPOCRACY, even more than a public figure's affair or lies to try to cover it up.
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Perhaps that's the ultimate fate for a media figure's attempt to live as a character rather than an honest person.
Colin Delany: The Irony Inherent in Sarah Palin's Social Media Image Machine Colin Delany 2011
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Reaching both backwards and forwards, each picture tells a story, a sort of repressed Kentridgesque chronicle in which the tensions and stresses of the current political reality resonate but are simultaneously masked by each figure's anonymity.
Alexander Adler: Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World Alexander Adler 2011
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One among 500 ancient Chinese works that the Agnelli Foundation donated to the museum, the figure's eyes are rounded, his nose aquiline, and though most figurines show a male rider straddling his mount, sidesaddle is not unheard of.
A Mysterious Stranger in China Lee Lawrence 2011
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Mr. Schulian's willingness to withhold judgment lets him to take in a figure's full scope.
In Brief: Sports 2011
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Much about it – especially the over-determination of the figure's racial and cultural otherness – makes one prickle, this time with involuntary embarrassment.
In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd – review 2011
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Disney sculptor Valerie Edwards created the Obama figure's likeness.
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