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[001] 34 and found Limerick "the very vilest town" he had _____ visited. Heinrich Boll, the German Nobel-Prize- winni
[002] apping and even faster triplets. Mixed audio review. _____ SINCE THE CARL FISCHER COMPANY put itself up for sal
[003] ful young Dutchwoman of Rembrandt's own day. (No one _____ forgot the gesture with which she threw off the covers
[004] to welcome her unexpected but irresistible visitor.) _____ since it was bought in 1772 by Catherine the Great of
[005] lifetime finances than all the advice employees will _____ read about investing their 401(k) plans, buying a hom
[006] Washington writer Twenty-five years ago, had anyone _____ heard of "telecommuting " to work? Twenty years ago
[007] ed Armando Benitez make up "the best bullpen I have _____ managed. No question about it. " RICHARD WILLIAMS h
[008] g East Conference. It was the earliest Big East game _____ for Rutgers, and one of its worst season- opening lo
[009] tate than Scarlet Knights. About the only suggestions _____ bandied about have been Turnpikers and Tomatoes. We
[010] ty of Mississippi. 'I'm about as happy today as I've _____ been in my life. I don't want to say it's better than
[011] oing to play well,' Turner said. 'I don't know if you _____ know what your team is going to be like in the opener
[012] with all their earthly possessions, heading westward, _____ westward, in search of a new life. Years of family t
[013] Award as best director of a play, the youngest person _____ to do so. The play, 'The Elephant Man,' proved to be
[014] e were 367,168 filings - the largest quarterly total _____ , according to the Administrative Office of the U. S.
[015] to keep quiet about such things - has been widespread _____ since he became a force to be reckoned with. What is
[016] the theaters of war and leisure are merging more than _____ ,' Lanza comments. Favorable book review. Edmund Whit
[017] legacy, it seems strange that 'The Bad Seed' should _____ have fallen out of print. For some time, however, it
[018] law raises questions about his commitment. Is Denny's _____ going to learn? The restaurant chain is facing anothe
[019] metimes feared and never fully understood, but who is _____ - present in her mind as she feels its smooth grain- g
[020] ted three days later and has maintained his innocence _____ since. This April, the appeals court gave Judge Bro
[021] discussions did not always extend beyond the grave. _____ since the Beatles popularized Hinduism and Nehru jac
[022] pect tobacco companies to sell as many cigarettes as _____ . Seventy percent say the price of a pack of cigarett
[023] n its former tenants, like an aching phantom limb. " _____ since the building is gone, I'm here day and night o
[024] boots and a Mickey Mouse mask. THE LAST BOOK YOU'LL _____ READ Introduction First there were rough stick pictu
[025] prices. That's why this could be the last book you'll _____ read. ’Ä¢ 1 The Process of Change The Importance of
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[001] isit. Then Ms. Reinking appeared at the dressing room _____ . Only two nights before, when Liza Minnelli, among o
[002] Ward Cleaver happily installed outside their front _____ as they see the boys off to school, June the complete
[003] o resemble the back seat of a taxi. As he opened the _____ to flee the submerged cab, the tank unleashed a casc
[004] to shopping and restaurants in Port Washington next _____ , giving residents a sense of community. A 21- member
[005] to a partial vacuum in the building until the front _____ is opened and fresh air can rush in. The problem is t
[006] w feet away. They both enter the small room and the _____ creaks closed. Mirrors are everywhere. Two wide- angl
[007] terydom. We took snapshots of Dorothy Sayers's front _____ in Oxford and roamed the moors where the hound of th
[008] Lady Diana Frances Spencer grew up in a mansion next _____ to the royal family's Sandringham estate. One of her
[009] a mix! Mixed audio review. When Tim Ebner opens the _____ of his Atwater bungalow, his hands are covered in brig
[010] and Rena appeared unannounced at his parents' front _____ , not knowing if they would be greeted by Hans' kindn
[011] Comets are not on the road, Cooper will walk out the _____ and go home to her mother, Mary Cobbs, for whom she
[012] m between different sets of workers established next _____ to one another. Could this be the caste system of tom
[013] hows 525 lines (when it's new and you're living next _____ to the transmitter). Present dish size is about that
[014] eaching the grocery shelf. Because farms aren't next _____ anymore, growers, shippers, and grocery stores have
[015] d service. I expect the world will beat a path to his _____ , but he probably won't be home. He'll be out pushing
[016] account. A "Cosmo Planet" robot welcomes you at the _____ . You might expect the speech but not the change in f
[017] hy "can be a kind of elective institution". His back- _____ negotiations with developers over the Paternoster sit
[018] r shop is no less full of wonders for having had its _____ opened further. And writers are going to Russia: at
[019] 'll see". ’Ä¢Arts Page 17 891006 RECORDS / Girls next _____ By JIM WHITE KYLIE MINOGUE Enjoy Yourself (PWL Recor
[020] clever about her, just a pleasant- looking girl-next- _____ who won the pools when she met Stock, Aitken and Wat
[021] ife office after the Prudential which specialises in _____ -to-
[022] -to- _____ collection of insurance premiums from customers. Fol
[023] share has declined consistently. Pearl specialises in _____ -to-
[024] -to- _____ collection of insurance premiums from customers who h
[025] es policemen dressed in uniform windcheaters. By the _____ , in the middle of the working class district of Prenz
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[001] ugh at first believed to have been damaged beyond any _____ of recovery, it is to go back on view in the Hermita
[002] , and some of the art you'll see here is thorny, so I _____ it needles you and tickles you. " During his career a
[003] for the 1997 campaign, for the beginning of what many _____ will be a dramatic turnaround for this beleaguered t
[004] chool year, saving half a million dollars. "What we _____ to do is address our students on a personal level, tr
[005] f the epidemic has been replaced by a diverse mix of _____ , accommodation and resignation. Last year, approxima
[006] past, when Latinos invested an unrealistic measure of _____ and responsibility in their few public figures, a cou
[007] muscle and cost efficiency that regional banks cannot _____ to match. When the Bosnian Serb President, Biljana P
[008] s for surviving and is thus, inevitably, a symbol of _____ . Their movies together for Paramount, and those Lewis
[009] y and ride it into the unknown. Theirs is a vision of _____ , accomplishment, inner satisfaction, and success, not
[010] possible to know everything about anything. Your best _____ is to learn how to access information. Utilize new, n
[011] us, compared to what the publishers of this book can _____ to realize. With my better margin I can do promotion,
[012] t 2.5 million people with this problem. Now comes new _____ : a form of "intimate TV" in the shape of wraparound g
[013] puter world of knowledge, choose the computer. Let's _____ he's right. Meanwhile, the disinterest in public educ
[014] t touches a chord in most Britons' hearts (and, let's _____ , eyes). But to convince the architectural profession
[015] t touches a chord in most Britons' hearts (and, let's _____ , eyes). But to convince the architectural profession
[016] han a little in common with the muscular monuments of _____ and Gordon Streets. For better or worse, Glasgow was
[017] finely judged deliberate accent slippage. At least, I _____ it was deliberate. It probably was, as the producer D
[018] n television, it just slips quietly by, but we should _____ that there will always be people to run the kind of B
[019] 's bottom while her lover is being tortured. One must _____ that Maxwell will be well enough to assume the role
[020] as difficulty holding a place in the repertoire, what _____ is there for the merely excellent? The main problem
[021] , but a true feeling of ensemble would be too much to _____ for. Inevitably, the impression is not of unified exc
[022] the contractors, Transmanche Link. Eurotunnel's only _____ seems to lie in satisfying the banks' technical advi
[023] t to publish good quality literary works as well. We _____ we will give a voice to the authors of the '90s". The
[024] ar's profit forecast by £18m to £570m. Next year's _____ is now £620m against £660m. The shares lost 6p to
[025] He added: "The Chinese students have given me great _____ for the future of China and Tibet. I feel that their
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[001] olve hundreds of muscles. Robots can locomote using _____ motions; not wheels or legs. Natural analogues, such
[002] ding strength-building activities that can build lean _____ mass. The more lean tissue you have, the higher your
[003] ll- equipped (multiple swim-gear bags, North African _____ paint and a supply of 48 eye shadows). Sarah (Lewko
[004] mpbell says the riders will pass only "over my dead _____ . " The Louima brutality case is an ugly reminder th
[005] York City has yet to establish a strong, independent _____ to monitor and investigate police misconduct. The Cit
[006] oganeering. One would never guess that their author's _____ is still maimed from his imprisonment and from being
[007] m wrestling for bad behavior. To keep snarly soul and _____ together, Eva has signed on to do security work for a
[008] cemetery or garden, she's a peaceful figure, but her _____ is pierced by a bronze culvert pipe that casts a lon
[009] ts, and to allow there is still plenty of life in the _____ of organized labor. While nearly everyone was impress
[010] was included in a lot he had bought. Except for the _____ hanging from the tree, the scene could have depicted
[011] liams, all 6 feet 2 inches of her gangly but powerful _____ , growing into her fame last night at the United Stat
[012] lers said the Brunei Investment Agency, a Government _____ that manages about $60 billion in assets, according
[013] of the third millennium. Today, more than six dozen _____ parts can be implanted in a human. If my eye implant
[014] ne. Possibly such a mobile device could remain in the _____ more or less permanently. After all, the internal th
[015] thermometer already has the capacity to remain in the _____ for a full year, constantly reporting thermal conditi
[016] our head is in cyberspace it doesn't matter where your _____ is". Roberts, usually "on the road" with his bike, i
[017] logy will basically mean the redesigning of the human _____ . Already, perhaps irretrievable steps have been take
[018] ion heaters that keep things warm -- things like your _____ , your chair, and your table but not the surrounding ai
[019] r it. The air can be several degrees cooler than your _____ , but you won't notice it because you are warm. The c
[020] te planet. Although it makes up but 2 percent of our _____ weight, the brain consumes 20 percent of our energy.
[021] eas. This is made possible by the brain's use of the _____ 's glucose, which has been made radioactive. Medical
[022] er and more extensive. Today more than three million _____ implants of various kinds have been conducted in Nor
[023] news. I fell into the 20 percent failure category. My _____ rejected the implants. I'm too healthy: My immune sy
[024] rands of life that identify all the genes in the human _____ . That is a big project. There are more than ten trill
[025] . There are more than ten trillion cells in the human _____ . They all contain DNA, which tells us how we grow, l
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[001] ening moments will almost surely have a certain yo-yo _____ on you. Surrounded by a horde of uncontainable preado
[002] job into a union job very likely will have a bigger _____ on lifetime finances than all the advice employees wi
[003] in 1923, noted that he had problems getting just the _____ he wanted, noting that "the brick was laid as irregul
[004] teams, the lowest number since free agency went into _____ in 1993, there are scads of big names in that group,
[005] how much top officials knew of the controversy. One _____ of keeping the Trie-related donations quiet was to p
[006] ece of only slightly older technology. A synergistic _____ makes the two technologies stronger and more dynamic
[007] during that period are also fed in. The computer, in _____ , knows what the doctor knows: the doctor's intuition
[008] ance. With new environmental regulations coming into _____ in 1994 in California, temperate forests that have be
[009] asing the plant's electrical power requirements. The _____ on attitude is disastrous. In North America it is mo
[010] hen it explodes. It is another example of an economic _____ that perhaps does not slip into public consciousness
[011] own laws about who shall be unionized. They put into _____ a permanent hiring freeze. Net result: they stifle j
[012] you built into your model?" Have they considered the _____ on agricultural land when biotechnology allows a thre
[013] ing loans. This has the potential to trigger a domino _____ throughout the Swiss banking establishment. All citi
[014] oject known as America, Part II will have a dramatic _____ on our way of life and the way we perceive learning.
[015] ains its own broadcasting system. The potato will, in _____ , report on how it was handled from field harvesting t
[016] a new technique called stereotactic radio surgery. In _____ , it sends an electronic knife into the brain to disso
[017] lling system. A business can use such a system as, in _____ , its own private phone company by installing its own
[018] ly restocking the sea. A more important though subtle _____ is that a natural cleansing system would be created.
[019] ed-off areas called "crawls" -- salt water fjords, in _____ . In just six months these fish experienced an average
[020] e each refuses to acknowledge its neighbours, the net _____ in terms of the streetscape is less than zero. Some o
[021] roposals, the less likely it is that the Hammersmith _____ will spread further. ’Ä¢ Architecture Page 23 891004
[022] brown. But there is nothing homely about the general _____ . Vast overlapping planes of brickwork are modelled w
[023] at the local community groups fear is the "Docklands _____ " where local people are driven out by rising property
[024] f the station is not built there it would not greatly _____ their scheme, which surely cannot be true given the p
[025] two of the key groups who will actually have a large _____ on how architecture is produced: the journalists and
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[001] they often prove enlightening, especially where they _____ across decades. Like NVC Arts' recent "Art of Singin
[002] e said, "I reached a level of relaxation you couldn't _____ in the Senate. " People also appreciate the reasonab
[003] ey concede, the heroin black market has defied their _____ . To shoot the dope, inmates say, they often use dirty
[004] the living, breathing milestone, always just out of _____ . Near the end of his postgame interview following Sat
[005] England on Sept. 20. The MetroStars' magic number to _____ the playoffs equals their points - 3 for an outright
[006] self. It has been said that when children born today _____ their eightieth birthday, 97 percent of all knowledge
[007] the aisles (still sitting in your armchair at home), _____ out with the glove, which will electronically penetra
[008] oodlot. Most trees take from seven to forty years to _____ a usable size for pulp. Just making paper requires v
[009] costs have been written off, profit margins sometimes _____ 75 percent or higher. It takes only seconds to dupli
[010] sh a number to contact the person you were trying to _____ -- often because that person wanted to talk to you a
[011] get calls for single- serving salads. Remember the " _____ out and touch someone" ads of the phone companies? B
[012] ies? Before the turn of the century you will see the " _____ out and touch that food product" version of virtual r
[013] p by). You first put on a virtual reality glove, then _____ through your TV screen to that shelf with jars of gen
[014] urchased and their cost. To return anything before you _____ the checkout counter, hit the cancel button on the s
[015] o range with an ultraviolet light lure, and when they _____ a fine mesh "killing field," a self- cleaning, spinni
[016] these windows and grows out through the openings to _____ super-pure sunlight collected on the roof of the "far
[017] red for between forty and forty-five days until they _____ full growth. At the precise time that they peak in fl
[018] lows down. Mexico City, for example, is projected to _____ a population of thirty million within a decade. Other
[019] ow to capture such contracts when other world cities _____ the density and land costs that make underground dev
[020] architects Rock Townsend and Lennart Bergstroms can _____ the meticulous standards set by their Swedish master
[021] Drive four miles out from the town centre until you _____ a run-down area on the river. Then, right there, amo
[022] ect's existence. Small World, bought by Granada, did _____ the viewers but also reviewers who had doubts as larg
[023] ce Work's laconic demolition of Lacan has survived to _____ the BBC. A French lecturer at a symposium he addresse
[024] ake a while to sort out. CB is also most unlikely to _____ its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings o
[025] s 1986's record figure of dollars 179bn, and may yet _____ the magic dollars 200bn. ’Ä¢Business & City Page 20
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[001] evel of government say that this cleanup is the last _____ chance of averting a 1992 Federal order to build what
[002] wasn't young and stylish, but it had shown them the _____ of times. Despite all the Sturm und Drang about luxu
[003] landestine voyage to Palestine. Mr. Verhoeven, 59, is _____ known for another exploration of wartime Germany and
[004] e comedies discover the show and start laughing, the _____ episodes of the series have already been made. (See
[005] rcent, prompting some pundits to say that one of the _____ stock market runs in history was over. The Dow finish
[006] t described its homespun style of picking stocks in a _____ - selling book, the New Yorkers set out to learn more
[007] just published " Bombardiers, "a critically acclaimed _____ seller about government bond traders. Stephen W. Fre
[008] acked derivatives was not especially compelling. The _____ - seller lists were not exactly brimming with books ab
[009] identify the second trimester, weeks 14 to 28, as the _____ time to take a trip. If there are no complications,
[010] ers, surge suppression and ungrounded outlets. ("The _____ thing to do, " the salesman advised me when I told hi
[011] and the howitzer-armed Armando Benitez make up "the _____ bullpen I have ever managed. No question about it.
[012] a chance to be great. Kicker Brad Daluiso may be the _____ in the game right now. OUTLOOK: Last year the Giants
[013] as clients playing - but he is being measured by his _____ -known current head case, John Daly. If the pro golfe
[014] reated to the sight of so many of them. I was on the _____ salmon holding pool in the river. Fishing rights on
[015] r, who manages the club, the Patapedia Pool is "the _____ holding pool in North America, " and few would disa
[016] ct, brokers have a financial incentive not to get the _____ possible deal for borrowers, because of a practice ca
[017] like dining at Taco Bell in Guadalajara.) What's the _____ of the current crop? After a few days behind the whee
[018] self up for the predetermined second- class trip. At _____ , his story is a cloaked and varnished series of song
[019] precipitously. "The Long Island economy is in the _____ shape it's been in since the mid to late 1980's, " sa
[020] nding a centerpiece of curry mayonnaise round out the _____ bets. Favorable restaurant review. A few restaurant
[021] r and competitive sand- sculptor, and represents the _____ of 129 works submitted by artists in New Jersey, New
[022] been awarded to him for being the junior player who ' _____ exemplifies sportsmanship, fair play and academic exc
[023] ts about half of non- union workers to say that the _____ way to improve one's work situation is for workers to
[024] for, personality-wise. He is the toughest. ' Perhaps _____ known for his relentless questioning of Anita Hill,
[025] Georgetown University, Hofsiss won the Tony Award as _____ director of a play, the youngest person ever to do so
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[001] insure that his once-loyal military forces remain at _____ neutral in his power struggle with Ms. Plavsic. Rio
[002] s introduced at Mr. McVeigh's trial indicate that at _____ part of the story is not true. They show that the cal
[003] 'the Worldwide Leader in Sports,' is located in the _____ media-conscious place on the East Coast." And the sta
[004] s devastation still permeate contemporary cinema. At _____ three movies about to open - "My Mother's Courage,"
[005] ce is typically compelling visually, it is marred, at _____ on video, by the superimposition of a ghostly Leonore
[006] , his works for chorus may be the most neglected, at _____ in the United States. But Mr. Gardiner spiritedly st
[007] " or "Sanford and Son. " What makes Urkel run (or at _____ walk peculiarly in a bent-kneed crouch)? He wasn't ev
[008] any analysts find the company's stock, if not hot, at _____ an interesting way to play the theater building boom.
[009] of the anatomy he can hit, by chance or skill. Or at _____ a person can blaze away in the suspected carjacker's
[010] handful " of orphans among them. The chain grew to at _____ five buildings in New York, the others at 302 West
[011] ook for the stage musical, "42d Street " was once, at _____ honestly, called. With additional music and lyrics,
[012] e surprised myself by making what on the surface at _____ , seems like a smooth transition from being a relative
[013] of Boston. First published in 1775, the march has at _____ 2OO verses. The title derives from the 17th- century
[014] or scientific decoding. Gone also, in some places at _____ , is the sense of impotence many AIDS sufferers, and
[015] a criminal investigation. France Info radio said at _____ some of the photographers took pictures before help
[016] ngton and its suburbs educate 145,000 students in at _____ 18 colleges and universities that offer full degree
[017] e drawn by Stalin at the end of World War II,' but at _____ the truth. The administration should also do away wit
[018] ant the system tightened so that more debtors pay at _____ part of what they owe with a workout plan under Chap
[019] Brown decided to forgo full-time college studies, at _____ for now. 'I never thought I'd be working right after
[020] n has been a 'city of eros,' can read Whitman - or at _____ his gay references - better than they can. Mixed boo
[021] scabrous fictions? With a public bad-boy profile (at _____ in the United Kingdom), Self and his stories have be
[022] to reduce risk; and invest only in companies with at _____ a five- year track record - i. e., stay away from ini
[023] g chased by photographers on a motorcycle and in at _____ one car. The French news agency Agence France-Presse
[024] sponded to his ads in newspapers, and he murdered at _____ a third of them in his quest for fortune. Far from bei
[025] s not written a great deal, but two of his books, at _____ , are classics: 'A Sport and a Pastime,' a feverishly
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[001] into present ones. Works like Copland's "Rodeo, " for _____ , generate their own publicity. The score has long si
[002] company. This has happened before. Last summer, for _____ , prices of technology stocks fell sharply, and on J
[003] onald W. Allen, was regarded by Delta employees as an _____ of the sort of ruthless manager who put the 'down' i
[004] he problem of maintaining Jewish identity. Both, for _____ , reject a facile Jewish liberalism; the quest for uni
[005] hed and self- conscious. In 'A Boy's Own Story,' for _____ , the Midwest setting, though carefully depicted, is n
[006] of legislation. With prudish horror, Kessler recites _____ after
[007] after _____ of (rumored) moral decay and bad manners, thinking,
[008] tier. Mixed audio review. Take opera stereotypes, for _____ . Your parents might have anticipated that a young so
[009] bly Long Beach, Pasadena and Glendale. Pasadena, for _____ , with a 1920 population of about 45,000, was similar
[010] , but also providing results of competency tests. For _____ , a competency test in science may be asking a student
[011] n's freedom from British rule, perhaps the starkest _____ of Indo chic can be found in the new popularity of l
[012] e selected volume or volumes purchased. An excellent _____ is the monthly photonic magazine Nautilus, published
[013] hard technology, will continue to accelerate. My own _____ comes from my weak eyesight. Glasses at age twelve t
[014] hen beyond any reality previously known. The simplest _____ of functioning virtual reality is the Powerglove, man
[015] tronically penetrate your TV screen, and pick up, for _____ , a bottle of Heinz ketchup. Description and price are
[016] , most rigid products on earth. It has been used, for _____ , on John Glenn's space capsule, the interior structur
[017] kills are obsolete, as we all witness every day". For _____ , in the new field of virtual reality there are, as y
[018] three computers. He even types as he rides. His is an _____ of one of the new lifestyles. He is also an
[019] of one of the new lifestyles. He is also an _____ of how the centrifugal forces that once bound societi
[020] with twenty or more employees must be unionized, for _____ , that gives rise to small companies with, say, fiftee
[021] owth is slow at first. Then it explodes. It is another _____ of an economic effect that perhaps does not slip into
[022] se in amplification techniques in a dozen fields. For _____ , a device, reduced by modern technology to the size o
[023] lmost from their introduction. Voice mail is a prime _____ . At a time when customer and supplier service is par
[024] only plays great digital sound but can deliver, for _____ , all the famous art works from the Louvre in Paris, t
[025] esearchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for _____ , realizing that smaller units of food will be in dema