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  • The poem "Dark Brown" remains as the best statement I could make at that time of freeing myself from what Marcuse calls one- dimensionality.

    Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Anis Shivani 2011

  • Yet just after that clip comes another from 2007, in which candi- date Obama refers to a one- to two-decade transition period during which he hopes his health reforms will undermine private insurance plans.

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • Yet just after that clip comes another from 2007, in which candi- date Obama refers to a one- to two-decade transition period during which he hopes his health reforms will undermine private insurance plans.

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • While Giffords could previously only communicate in short one- or two-word bursts, she is becoming better able to talk in full sentences, said Francisco.

    Homepage CP Container 2012

  • For a brief moment, one- and three-month Treasury bills traded in negative territory, according to Tradeweb, meaning investors were paying the government to lend it money—a phenomenon last seen in December 2008.

    Oil Surprise Roils Markets Jonathan Cheng 2011

  • The percentage making staff cuts will probably increase, however, because about one- third of these districts were undecided on where to cut at the time of our survey.

    Jack Jennings: Education Budget Cuts Imperil Reform Jack Jennings 2011

  • As evidenced by the blues, waltzes and one- and two-steps that form this set, the two men made music that was as lyrical as it was intense.

    Album review: "Mama I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin" 2011

  • The percentage making staff cuts will probably increase, however, because about one- third of these districts were undecided on where to cut at the time of our survey.

    Jack Jennings: Education Budget Cuts Imperil Reform Jack Jennings 2011

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the House Republican plan to cut $61 billion across federal agencies through the end of September would have only a slightly negative impact on the country's economic growth, lowering gross domestic product by one- to two-tenths of a percentage point this year.

    Bernanke: House GOP spending plan would have minimal effect on economic growth 2011

  • For the last 20 years, his family has been living in a chawl tenements with one- or two -room units in Bandra, a Mumbai suburb.

    Affordable Housing Projects For India 2011

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