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  • Oddly enough there is an organization called Puentes headquartered in Wisconsin which serves to acquaint farmers, esp dairy farmers, with the whys and wherefors of the lives of their Mexican dairy hands.

    bridges vs walls 2006

  • This is why I rarely make Useful Plans, there's always changes and problems and addendums and wherefors and what-have-yous.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2008

  • A simple one or two sentence statement might fly, but not a single spaced legalese document loaded with wherefors.

    Printing: Impeachment; a Challenge to Dem Integrity and Courage 2008

  • A simple one or two sentence statement might fly, but not a single spaced legalese document loaded with wherefors.

    Impeachment; a Challenge to Dem Integrity and Courage 2008

  • Oddly enough there is an organization called Puentes headquartered in Wisconsin which serves to acquaint farmers, esp dairy farmers, with the whys and wherefors of the lives of their Mexican dairy hands.

    bridges vs walls 2006

  • I think this brief essay provides a more profound insight into the whys and wherefors of how western "culture" has fallen apart under the onslaught of one-dimensional men, as celebrated at the MR blog.

    Putting economics back to where it was in the first place Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • Harvest Room Hear these folks explain away the whys and wherefors of all that is quirky in F&SF

    Archive 2007-01-01 michael 2007

  • Harvest Room Hear these folks explain away the whys and wherefors of all that is quirky in F&SF

    RadCon 4C, Pasco WA michael 2007

  • He said : “Communists must always go into the whys and wherefors of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and it is really well-founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.”

    Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

  • Now is not the time to get into the whys and wherefors, because I would have to be fair and balanced and actually formulate my thoughts.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

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