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  • Well-no one really knows what the specifics of the mortgage bailout plan is-in fact the Obama administration says that they are still arguing out the details-according to the WSJ.

    "The government is promoting bad behavior...." Ann Althouse 2009

  • To accomplish this it is necessary not to identify oneself with one's body, but to regard it as the instrument it is-in St. Francis' kindly phrase: "Brother Ass."

    Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009

  • Rather than present a normative argument on behalf of originalism, I merely try to identify what the original meaning of the text really is-in particular, the circumstances in which background assumptions become a part of that meaning.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Rather than present a normative argument on behalf of originalism, I merely try to identify what the original meaning of the text really is-in particular, the circumstances in which background assumptions become a part of that meaning.

    Barnett on The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • The story is-in a nutshell- about some farmers wifes who solve a mystery their husbands can't.

    MAKING MOVIES MANDREWS 2008

  • That's how fantastic cyberspace is-in just over 240 minutes of pricey connect time, I learned how to make an elaborate change to my computer that had no practical use whatsoever.

    MEN, WOMEN & COMPUTERS 2008

  • The story is-in a nutshell- about some farmers wifes who solve a mystery their husbands can't.

    Archive 2008-03-01 MANDREWS 2008

  • So, also, the more valuable and honourable the object of a science, the more valuable and honourable the science itself is-in consequence.

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • Gossip being what it is-in any world-you have probably already heard of the strange Mundanian who persists in corresponding with citizens of Xanth.

    Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002

  • This is-in our law, it is the same as if I had stolen his property.

    The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

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