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Instead of grabbing a pack of smokes and a bottle of tequila (my old stand-bys), I pampered myself as much as I could.
Cassandra M. Bellantoni: Chippity Doo Da! How I Got My Daughter to the White House Selling Cookies Cassandra M. Bellantoni 2010
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Instead of grabbing a pack of smokes and a bottle of tequila (my old stand-bys), I pampered myself as much as I could.
Cassandra M. Bellantoni: Chippity Doo Da! How I Got My Daughter to the White House Selling Cookies Cassandra M. Bellantoni 2010
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Instead of grabbing a pack of smokes and a bottle of tequila (my old stand-bys), I pampered myself as much as I could.
Cassandra M. Bellantoni: Chippity Doo Da! How I Got My Daughter to the White House Selling Cookies Cassandra M. Bellantoni 2010
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What I have for you, and will probably have to deliver in multiple chunks, is a love poem to the tropes of yesteryear, some of the great old science fiction stand-bys that have become has-beens.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Michael Leza’s Review Forum 2009
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From design innovations, new technologies and the use of simple stand-bys like insulation and thermal panes, we can dramatically cut the energy we waste, saving families and businesses scores of billions of dollars each year.
Frances Beinecke: Japan, Libya and BP Blowout Make the Case for Energy Change Frances Beinecke 2011
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Instead of grabbing a pack of smokes and a bottle of tequila (my old stand-bys), I pampered myself as much as I could.
Cassandra M. Bellantoni: Chippity Doo Da! How I Got My Daughter to the White House Selling Cookies Cassandra M. Bellantoni 2010
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And if you have old stand-bys, you're not going to care what it looks like on the outside.
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 2 days to go! Nalini Singh 2009
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While Los Angeles has not historically been known as a big pizza town, the past few years have seen an explosion of new, gourmet pies and a renewed appreciation for old stand-bys.
The Best Pizza In LA Billy Silverman 2010
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Progressives have to make clear that part of our mission is to clean up the corporate corruption of government, and that we understand that government in recent years (outside of old stand-bys like Social Security and Medicare and Head Start and the minimum wage) has not always done a good job in making most people's lives better.
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Yet at many companies, those old stand-bys, asked every day by hundreds of managers and human resource officers trying to assess job candidates, have been joined by a new line of questioning.
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