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[001] acement. Moments after Ms. Henner had danced the last _____ of her first performance, a prominent CBS newswoman c
[002] t used to usher the sitcom characters from the front _____ of their neo-colonial dream house directly into livi
[003] at was once a magnet for trouble. In Burbank, a first _____ was the city's purchase of the gang members' turf. 'W
[004] f confidence and love for the kitchen, it was a small _____ for Teddy (Williams) and Shadonna to don black pants,
[005] r now since we were asked, and others were asked, to _____ aside, and I think the community deserves a status r
[006] are delighted by the memorial. They see it as a major _____ toward equality. The issue of total equality is a bu
[007] A college degree is wonderful, but it is only a single _____ along a journey of lifelong learning,' said Edward Si
[008] al partner of Dr. Karadzic, after NATO forced him to _____ aside because he has been indicted by an internation
[009] es it in the tissues. Their work took science a giant _____ toward an understanding of how proteins do their vita
[010] ith Hollywood executives to express concerns about a _____ -up in the number of images of such film mega-heroes a
[011] omicide investigations, prosecutors have taken a rare _____ in Hager's case: They have asked a judge to admit int
[012] ame of one organization of parents who've taken this _____ , and Bruce Cox is one of their members. He's joined
[013] a success of it. The leader had guided them at every _____ . The size of the first season's crop proved the hybr
[014] l that the increased water supply would be the first _____ toward progress and development for the village and i
[015] the treatment of all prisoners. This is just another _____ on the short, sharp route march, begun in 1993, back
[016] e schools are booming as a result, and one has gone a _____ further in seeking to encourage employers into this
[017] ed out that the question of women deacons (the first _____ to priesthood) had been left open. In such ways he has
[018] ho have been through the appeal process. Fight every _____ of the way and try not to get disheartened. You may
[019] ren use their fingers or an abacus - is an important _____ on the road to numeracy, and should not be rushed. A
[020] ally got at school, but I got a C. The work is a big _____ up from A-level. I'm definitely going to concentrate
[021] nd's Lulu), and her collected essays and journalism. _____ hen Woolley, who produced the film The Company of Wo
[022] metres below me, walking up and searching the heather _____ by
[023] by _____ . Keeping low in the heather, I moved up the hill. At
[024] eep water. And we had to carry suitcases. One wrong _____ , and we would fall into the deep, dark sea, with its
[025] r child, let me look at your dress! I saw the Squire _____ on it during the dance.' I suppose I'd better go now,
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[001] ofas, chairs and other combustibles. It was certainly _____ in the 1970's, after Playboy magazine rated party sch
[002] trial indicate that at least part of the story is not _____ . They show that the call to Mr. Nichols that afternoo
[003] other's Courage" is the fictional reconstruction of a _____ story about the deportation of a Hungarian-Jewish wom
[004] "The Nasty Girl " (1990). That film was based on the _____ story of a young Bavarian woman who after the war en
[005] ee. However, (John) Gunther's observation remains as _____ today as it was when he made it in 1947. The only pa
[006] eat Apes, the old comparisons might actually hinder a _____ appreciation. The three authors most commonly laid d
[007] Ballard, William Burroughs and Hunter Thompson. It's _____ that Self confessedly admires all three. From Ballard
[008] book is, in the words of critic Gilbert Milstein, 'a _____ artistic achievement,' merging elements of literature
[009] on did the right thing in ordering the recall. That's _____ even though no one knew whether that much meat was in
[010] e got at the moment, though. L: No, not as big, it's _____ , but it's in a much better location, with the countr
[011] ly a busy road. You wouldn't hear very much. J: Yes, _____ . And I suppose the children can have the bedrooms on
[012] e in the right and he is in the wrong - even if it is _____ . Never discuss a cash settlement with anyone, withou
[013] carpet of trees. And I said to myself, It can't be _____ , it can't be
[014] , it can't be _____ that this will disappear by the end of the century. A
[015] ent in the company's position, the manager believed. _____ , there would be an initial increase in debt load, be
[016] & see our photos. They'll prove what I'm saying is _____ . But I'm warning you - they'll make you jealous! It w
[017] case upon. Many of us find it difficult to know our _____ feelings, our emotions, and it can be even more diff
[018] ystem is a bit dishonest you might say. I: And is it _____ that children are the ones who suffer most? JS: Oh ye
[019] ers - just the youngest sister is still alive. I'm a _____ Cockney. We lived in the East End of London. We had
[020] ep honey bees outside in the garden. I: I think it's _____ that people all over the world are becoming more awa
[021] when his wife expressed her suspicion, he said, 'It's _____ the girl was very beautiful and she seemed to like m
[022] say that in Japan it is even more important. Is this _____ ? Graham: Well, yes, I think it is
[023] ? Graham: Well, yes, I think it is _____ - for lots of reasons, but I think there is one main
[024] act when they are in high school!' And I guess it's _____ in some cases. P: This is all really interesting, Gr
[025] t's easier to get to know them. I: So you think it's _____ that the English are 'cold,' as everyone says about
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[001] he Senate. " People also appreciate the reasonable _____ food occupies in Miss (Gail) Ahern's universe. All b
[002] ride, in which they were catapulted into a standing _____ at one point, as 'a most terrifying and wonderful tim
[003] t they could get more production from the first base _____ with Darin Erstad. The two-time Gold Glove Award-win
[004] these days. A longer life might have solidified his _____ in history, but he died young (and insane) at age 47
[005] making a major push to reclaim its former powerhouse _____ in junior and young women's apparel. The company is a
[006] mother and professional places one in a challenging _____ anywhere in the world, but more particularly in South
[007] ase that prompted it, put Mr. Giuliani in a difficult _____ . He had forcefully condemned the brutal abuse the pol
[008] r eight at-bats for the night with runners in scoring _____ . A 3-0 victory over the San Jose Clash at Giants St
[009] s would soon lead to an improvement in the company's _____ , the manager believed. True, there would be an init
[010] This strong win puts Tottenham into into number four _____ for the FA Cup. Another such victory would make the
[011] a spectacular view. Crudely summarised, his present _____ is as follows: Modern architecture, with its cubes an
[012] old funding. They are wrong and risk weakening their _____ in the discussions which must follow. We should be a
[013] gree was putting the career off. Now I'm in the same _____ as at A-level - trying to think what to do, that's pr
[014] . I suspect that higher education is in much the same _____ as the retailing industry in 1960: a domestic industr
[015] mo Ray Illingworth dismissed him from the unofficial _____ of chaplain to the national side; Illingworth said he
[016] them out. India is trying to move into a more central _____ and its people prize education above all else. The As
[017] his enemies. They, after all, manoeuvred him into the _____ ofauthorising the now- despised Ptydepe. The saddest
[018] its influence is out of proportion to its real modern _____ in the world. With only 1 per cent of the global popu
[019] ous. There was the briefing: current, wind direction, _____ of buoys, reminders to sit here or there, do this or
[020] ancies to term. Philosophically, that is an arguable _____ . But to say it in that context shows a lack of touch
[021] raception, Cardinal Martini has suggested that Rome's _____ is perhaps 'not well expressed'. On the Pope's recen
[022] ive dimensions, the genuflection towards the existing _____ , the insistence on the need to consult others and th
[023] e on homosexuality - restating the traditional church _____ but in such clever language that it sounds more libe
[024] an engine in the air. I realized that I was in a bad _____ , because I had nowhere to hide. I sat, hopelessly, as
[025] lasses!' said the Doctor. Morris Townsend looks for a _____ If it were true that Catherine was in love, she was c
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[001] on now than at perhaps any other time in the nation's _____ . Republicans and a few Democrats will push for propos
[002] ated the first multiparty Congress in modern Mexican _____ by themselves, throwing the nation's newborn democrac
[003] wrecks. In the most extensive safety check in agency _____ , 80 Federal Railroad Administration inspectors have
[004] - elicited a half-hour infomercial about Ms. Darrow's _____ of impeccable style and satisfied customers. She sugg
[005] dits to say that one of the best stock market runs in _____ was over. The Dow finished that day at 5,349. 51. Thi
[006] ere still unpaid and in dispute, tainting her credit _____ . Ms. Dorcik, now 26, said she learned of the credit-
[007] . Ms. Dorcik, now 26, said she learned of the credit- _____ policy only because she had become friendly with the
[008] id. "It's unfair to be prejudged just by your credit _____ and a clerical error. They should have told me. " On
[009] ssion from applicants before even requesting a credit _____ . In addition, employers must give applicants a summar
[010] NAME: Ann Getty TITLE: Philanthropist... CONTRIBUTOR _____ : She contributed $50,000 in June of 1995 and October
[011] eriod the Jets fielded some of the worst teams in the _____ of pro sports. ... makes Jack want to appear on th
[012] that is what the relatively new owners of New York's _____ -laden 21 Club are doing this summer with a major ren
[013] versity graduate, has written five books on American _____ . He received the 1990 Book Award from the Sons of th
[014] king it the epicenter of cool in the 1950s. You want _____ ? The place was already a Spanish colonial boomtown b
[015] d of man at the close of the most destructive war in _____ . More recently, Leonard Bernstein elected to conduct
[016] s the state and Faubus well, and he writes about its _____ and political byways with confidence and grace. He kn
[017] John also requires some understanding of the family _____ , which spans two nations and a whirlwind of triumphs
[018] pecially from John's point of view, that same family _____ looks much different - inevitably, it is more complic
[019] year. San Fernando will celebrate its founding with a _____ symposium, entertainment and religious services next
[020] e 1934 documentary on the Nazis is considered one of _____ 's most notorious pieces of propaganda, was honored Sa
[021] Part confession, part memoir, part social and sexual _____ of the last three decades of gay life in America, th
[022] vertently or conveniently omitted from the nation's ' _____ ,.' she writes in her introduction to the just-publish
[023] centric perspective,' she continues, 'this incomplete _____ presents itself as unchallengeable, immortal, and rig
[024] tt Omata, at East West to David Henry Hwang's family _____ , 'Golden Child,' again at South Coast Rep, which is
[025] . A longer life might have solidified his position in _____ , but he died young (and insane) at age 47 in 1908. Wo
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[001] d by a horde of uncontainable preadolescents, rising _____ them in your seat like some steep, anomalous hump on
[002] the easygoing, gray- haired gent who lives on a hill _____ town and sometimes comes down with his guitar to jam
[003] es an hour. Then, at a defining moment (2,000 feet or _____ ) they pull the ripcord. Today, the venerable struct
[004] scores. Overall scores for Prince William County were _____ both the state and national level, although the coun
[005] intricate novel is not unlike a silver ball that hangs _____ a dance floor and rotates slowly on a fixed axis, ref
[006] ndividual histories, of couplings and confidences and, _____ all, of lives conjured from the fog of the past, irra
[007] ntral Siberia to Dudinka, a small port city 240 miles _____ the Arctic Circle. Krasnoyarsk was founded in 1628 b
[008] grees 2,600 miles north, on the Tree River 300 miles _____ the Arctic Circle. He had gone to the Tree -curiousl
[009] e lived in the East End of London. We had two rooms _____ a fish and chip shop. Number 18 India Street it was
[010] presidents, or goes to the moon. There is one thing _____ all that makes people and animals different. People l
[011] mirror about a mile in diameter floats weightlessly _____ the ring of the settlement. It reflects sunlight on t
[012] rk. But again very cold, with temperatures not going _____ freezing. And that's all from me. *** Man: Excuse
[013] with a sore throat, cold, and fever - three degrees _____ normal body temperature. This winter, however, I'm n
[014] the Universities, about their increasing costs and, _____ all, about whether the best use was being made of th
[015] he played with his sister and younger brother Aurel. _____ all, there was the hill called Coasta Boacu, looking
[016] t Lichtenberg, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Schopenhauer and _____ all, Nietzsche. At 17, he enrolled in the Faculty of
[017] more central position and its people prize education _____ all else. The Asian immigrant newsagent near my north
[018] salaries for newly qualified primary teachers clearly _____ the GDP per capita. Secondary teachers in Britain hav
[019] d each secondary school was allocated 25 per cent of _____ -average pupils, 50 per cent average and 25 per cent
[020] thin hours he was insisting 'I'm all right'. But only _____ his shoulders did that remain true, even last year, w
[021] on is often used these days that the country 'punches _____ its weight', by which is meant that its influence is o
[022] s no doubt that ambassadors still rate high politics _____ low commerce, and are probably better at it too. Dou
[023] direction of this government. It talks about punching _____ our weight but we are spending infinitely more of ou
[024] of his oratory, but the actual proposals did not rise _____ the municipal,' he said. Mr Lawson said that he was
[025] ers dutifully chorused the same refrain as they stood _____ their cherry orchards, their fig trees and potato fie
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[001] y reminder that New York City has yet to establish a _____ , independent body to monitor and investigate police
[002] to be Hanna Schmitz, 35, streetcar conductor. Moody, _____ - boned and tough-minded, she's no teenager's obvious
[003] ic) has no trouble with the idiom, and shows itself a _____ orchestra of the second tier. Mixed audio review.
[004] itanic,' 'The Life,' 'Jekyll & Hyde') are still going _____ at the box office, along with such bona-fide artistic
[005] right to see files kept about you. Even when you have _____ reason to believe a file contains wrong information,
[006] far. The BUILDING is your idea of religion and God. A _____ , solid building is a
[007] , solid building is a _____ belief. A ruin would mean a lack of belief. The GARD
[008] and lime. But don't drink it too quickly, it's very _____ ! The fruit juices are fantastic any time you're thir
[009] len tights to keep your legs warm, girls - and some _____ waterproof shoes. You don't want to catch the flu wh
[010] dation to inform young people on drug abuse. He has a _____ social conscience, and has supported causes such as
[011] Nylon was introduced to the world. It was cheap and _____ and immediately became successful, especially in the
[012] lful with the bow and arrow. Robin Hood's bow was so _____ , the story goes, that only he could bend it. He dres
[013] also better education for girls. However, there was _____ opposition. Many men argued that women were less int
[014] ect some rain in the morning and afternoon and quite _____ north easterly winds, and the temperature will be lo
[015] of Wales will be cloudy but dry at first, followed by _____ wind and a rain storm for most of the afternoon wit
[016] beat Wolverhampton Wanderers six-nil in London. This _____ win puts Tottenham into into number four position fo
[017] support and self-reliance, more Englishness within a _____ union, no European federalism, no single currency. T
[018] h I had discovered in Peckham, south London. I have a _____ memory of Sarah and her friend Jude living on the to
[019] on giving evidence to Robbins, being urged to make as _____ a case as I could about the inadequacy of provision.
[020] e talented. a homogenous culture, although there is a _____ academic culture and interest in success. It is not a
[021] driving doctors in woolly hats. But there's a really _____ ethic. When you're all standing in the rain it's one
[022] epartment of the BBC from 1950 to 1958, exercising a _____ musical influence on a whole generation of schoolchi
[023] ging up across the States and, inevitably, a brand of _____ beer named after the late, great Dangerfield. To help
[024] c'. He contracted TB, but 'cured well'. 'He was very _____ , but I suppose I didn't realise how bad he was. Altho
[025] and his associates have been linked with the 12,000 _____ Michigan Militia. This huge organisation is just one
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[001] g water for the men who sailed the ships. Alexander's _____ Nearchus was in charge of the ships, which brought fo
[002] ecent kings, Darius and Artaxerxes. He asked his best _____ , Hephaistion, to marry Darios's younger daughter, so
[003] died. His death was a terrible shock to his lifelong _____ and king. For many weeks he was unable to think about
[004] followed the traditions of the past. He had been their _____ as well as their conqueror. And, rightly, they feared
[005] child the new king, if the baby was a boy. Alexanders _____ , Perdiccas who had been his second in command after t
[006] a in a box of gold. But Ptolemy, who had been a close _____ of Alexander and had recently made himself king of an
[007] ks posed knowingly on Mediterranean holidays with her _____ , Emad Mohammed al- Fayed, 42, in an apparent effort
[008] ylights and views of the Central Park Reservoir. A _____ suggested a trip through Sands Point, and while there
[009] notes, and generally functions as assistant and best _____ . She has, in fact, just wheeled him to the lobby of th
[010] gged lifestyle of her new friends - and to one rugged _____ in particular. Mixed book review. MY SUMMER VACATI
[011] 's name. March always longed for such attention; his _____ Alistair Cooke once called him 'the unrecognized gen
[012] Soviet Union-is roughly equal in size to Norway. My _____ Ann and I are standing in Devil's Kitchen, in the mid
[013] th and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty. And his _____ and lover, Mamphela Ramphele, now 49, is vice chancel
[014] ause he was so impressed with the newfound vigor of a _____ recently returned from the Tennessee school. A retire
[015] ubble wrap, a bucket of rubber stamps on loan from a _____ 's preteen daughters, wire screening, even a small sli
[016] he pioneered blues radio, Wright was a mentor and a _____ to such Delta- born blues and rock stars as Muddy Wa
[017] with Wright watching, at WROX. My New York editor _____ , Larry Ashmead, called up to say he is going to the
[018] antiques dealer, Mr. Youngsworth, who along with his _____ , Mr. (Myles J.) Connor, says he has information that
[019] last year. But the only thing he remembered about his _____ 's pack was that it was 'shiny and big.' That wasn't
[020] eel like it. Now I tell everyone that I have a girl- _____ in France, but I don't think they believe me. What sh
[021] - I am in love with a girl who is very attractive. A _____ introduced us. She doesn't know how I feel. I have h
[022] o save what you have got, I recommend staying with a _____ rather than in a cheap London hotel. I didn't, and I
[023] 50 kilometres. Ten litres will fill it up. Mine's my _____ , a reliable, always cheerful
[024] , a reliable, always cheerful _____ and we get along with each other very well. In rain,
[025] . We were at the airport waiting for the plane and a _____ of mine who lived near the airport had come to see us
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[001] e United States. But Mr. Gardiner spiritedly stakes a _____ for these efforts. Comparative audio review. TO SI
[002] settle all of Europe. Not quite as catchy as Clinton's _____ that enlargement will 'erase the artificial line in E
[003] f 'Booknotes' (Times Books, $25) is that some writers _____ to enjoy labor. 'I love to write,' David McCullough,
[004] nes has introduced permanent 'Everyday Fares' with a _____ that as much as 40 percent has been sliced off its 21
[005] arnett prided itself as being "Florida's bank. " The _____ was not without justification. With 660 branches acro
[006] ter the accident, even if you do not intend to make a _____ for repairs. If the accident happens when their offic
[007] on than an academic judgement. It would be foolish to _____ that even now all former polytechnics are entirely e
[008] en as much for the intellectual and motor skills they _____ to teach as for the warmth of the carers. But nursery
[009] take advantage of tax changes that allowed owners to _____ VAT relief if they actively looked for sponsorship. F
[010] hich was launched about five years ago. Together they _____ a total membership of 3 million. Their first platfor
[011] esent role which human beings occupy, the theological _____ is compatible with a biological understanding of huma
[012] there is not even a 'mere probability', in that the _____ simply cannot be squared with what is now known about
[013] embryological development? The argument by which the _____ is defended rests on an ambiguous use of the word 'h
[014] ignified silence until the Scot's supporters began to _____ that he had somehow 'improved' the quality of the Wel
[015] re elegies for the lost object they delineate. Their _____ on permanence is doomed - as in the case of House, a
[016] be toughed out now we all speak Post- Modern. You can _____ to be doing it for every kind of reason. It doesn't
[017] round her neck. Two years later, a couple arrived to _____ her, bearing the other half of the coin. Nothing mor
[018] e to speak to this person who had made such a selfish _____ . Her eyes met his, but there was no shame in them, a
[019] n it. The question is: do you agree with Mrs Morgan's _____ that she should not take part in the draw, or should
[020] d to this letter, and completely prove that Tallboy's _____ to the property of Terry Moreton is false. However,
[021] that he believes he is Terry Moreton. He supports his _____ in a number of surprising and extremely interesting w
[022] right to leave the protection of this hospital. If I _____ to be Terry Moreton, the doctors say that I am living
[023] uld that happen? Why didn't you get legal advice, and _____ what was rightfully yours?' 'Mr Darcy's father had no
[024] once. The business was soon arranged. He resigned all _____ to the church post, and accepted three thousand pound
[025] eemed disappointed. Perhaps he wanted her to come and _____ the book immediately. At the Hall a small vehicle wi
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[001] a pretty presentation in the Japanese style, the roll _____ into four fat wheels around which were placed a reame
[002] p the hotels, reduce the number of street vendors and _____ crime. And, nearly a decade later, Acapulco is back,
[003] an additional $100 in principal each month, you will _____ the life of the loan to 24 years and seven months and
[004] * Decades may pass before venerable wood, precisely _____ and properly dried, reaches the hands and wits of th
[005] the company 14 days to choose whether to accept his _____ of the punitive award to $315,000 or to go through a
[006] es. Since 1989, when the collapse of the Soviet bloc _____ off crucial aid and training, the military has played
[007] an three months yesterday on fears that El Nino would _____ overseas crop production and on the expectation that
[008] Attenborough: In the Himalayas, for example, people _____ down forests simply because there are an awful lot o
[009] f people who need firewood to keep warm. And so they _____ down huge hillsides, in a few years are stripped of
[010] ow can you go to these people and say, 'You mustn't _____ down that tree in order to cook your food'? I: But is
[011] ght in his throat, it has to come out. If a woman has _____ her thumb with a cooking knife, the
[012] her thumb with a cooking knife, the _____ has to be cleaned and bandaged. If someone wearing
[013] 20s. We used to do things our mothers never did. We _____ our hair, we smoked, and went dancing. I loved doing
[014] er the case can continue. There is even one group of _____ -price shops in the Stockholm area that has changed
[015] Laura. At one point, when she is nerving herself to _____ out a bullet from someone's shoulder with a knife she
[016] ; yet more home ownership as a long- term measure to _____ the housing benefit bill. To date, he has proved as m
[017] had an image of university lads in rugby shirts, clean- _____ , with books under their arm. I went to Durham for a d
[018] up the Student Loans Company. Last year, grants were _____ by ten per cent - the first stage in a 30 per cent re
[019] in a 30 per cent reduction over three years. The next _____ is due next term. Students are expected to make up th
[020] ng a picture of his house, or in participating in the _____ -and-stick corner. And he got quite cross when we enco
[021] ife has been my faith. I can't talk about my life and _____ that out.' Akabusi is in no doubt that his faith and h
[022] ied to turn the mandarins into marketing managers. She _____ several British missions in countries where Britain w
[023] g a band of Islamists through the forest when he was _____ down by a brace of old hunting guns; but what astoni
[024] le', a slicing open of their throats. FLN terror thus _____ down many villagers in these remote hills as brother
[025] y and all I can really remember is the bit where she _____ her hair off. My own hair was quite short at the tim