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The one area of economics which has been pretty-much zero-sum from ancient times right up through today is competition for land.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Aside from a major second-act incident being used as a tone-setting prologue, a stunningly-shot car accident sequence in the middle of the film, and a slight alteration near the climax that gives Koteas more to do (the latter two are among the best scenes in the film), the plot is pretty-much beat for beat from the Swedish picture.
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Let Me In (2010) Scott Mendelson 2010
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Overcoming the distortion is still pretty-much an unsolved problem which I find quite fascinating.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Dr. Gerry Harp -- Deciphering Celestial Signals in a New Way SETI Institute 2011
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In retrospect you decide that you should have known this would be a disaster from the beginning, since the new club looks pretty-much like a broom (though academics will continue trying to make it work for golf for years to come).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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Overcoming the distortion is still pretty-much an unsolved problem which I find quite fascinating.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Dr. Gerry Harp -- Deciphering Celestial Signals in a New Way SETI Institute 2011
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No one listened to Trout, but he was vindicated when the world went to hell in a hand basket a pretty-much universal theme of Vonnegut's novels.
Nicholas Brown: The Kilgore Trout Effect Nicholas Brown 2010
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No one listened to Trout, but he was vindicated when the world went to hell in a hand basket a pretty-much universal theme of Vonnegut's novels.
Nicholas Brown: The Kilgore Trout Effect Nicholas Brown 2010
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No one listened to Trout, but he was vindicated when the world went to hell in a hand basket a pretty-much universal theme of Vonnegut's novels.
Nicholas Brown: The Kilgore Trout Effect Nicholas Brown 2010
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It's pretty-much universally agreed that Rooney had a nightmare tournament, and England exited in miserable fashion at the weekend.
World Cup special: part six – Is the Nike TV advert cursed? 2010
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No one listened to Trout, but he was vindicated when the world went to hell in a hand basket a pretty-much universal theme of Vonnegut's novels.
Nicholas Brown: The Kilgore Trout Effect Nicholas Brown 2010
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