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[001] e- hard fans of Ms. Lawless's woman-warrior character _____ taped episodes and engage in mock sword fights. The
[002] um. The fans show up at the tasteful new palace, they _____ , they enjoy, they put their manicured, uncallused han
[003] we are going to write off a section of the county and _____ it deteriorate,' said O'Neill, who came to Fairfax on
[004] Turkish bathhouses by 11 a. m. If Marion Barry won't _____ over us, Someone Else will. How else to explain an A
[005] n TV. This is a softy war, a pretend war. We got to _____ on TV as (Mike) Hernandez toted his baggie across a
[006] with pleats, Bally loafers and a $3,000 Bertolucci _____ . He called the Cabinet "beautiful people" and hugge
[007] e of them - the team's best defensive lineman - will _____ the game on TV from his home in Pennsylvania. But the
[008] It allows the wearer, at least in this application, to _____ two computer screens and handle two keyboards simulta
[009] take an inexpensive seat in the top of the stadium and _____ big screen color images through portable, five-ounce
[010] the Virtual Vision Sport glasses. They were able to _____ the movie and glance down and see the captions in th
[011] than the traditional method of turning theirheads to _____ a TV monitor as they produce the show. Now the puppe
[012] st of parking your car, to a Gutenberg-style library. _____ for even the dictionary description of the world "lib
[013] lection of shows is constantly available to all. You _____ when you want to and not when the flight attendants d
[014] ithout strong resistance. More people are believed to _____ CNN in Canada via private satellite dish than
[015] CNN in Canada via private satellite dish than _____ CBC Newsworld. CNN goes into fifty-five million cabl
[016] Hussein, and Saddam Hussein have in common. They all _____ it. Why is CNN now the very profitable ruler of glob
[017] ct and distribute weather data; monitor river levels; _____ your cottage in the country; or beam down directions
[018] ut it differently. Spend some time in a submarine and _____ how quickly new thinking patterns emerge. Every expl
[019] d his approach, they would probably have pulled up to _____ , so bizarre and entertaining were his surreptitious
[020] er. With a tight budget of around £2m, the crew must _____ how much it lashes out on lager. Adapted from Russel
[021] mens were of the cuter white kind, it was possibly to _____ this sequence without feeling many qualms. The emotio
[022] ar. The Bank of England is understood to be keeping a _____ as discussions continue between Eurotunnel and its f
[023] not stylish. The boiler suit is back. The colours to _____ : revolutionary red, proletarian blue and grey. In kee
[024] petite for golf is so healthy they would turn out to _____ anybody play. Even Americans against the Japanese. An
[025] the links here yesterday, a neutral army encouraged to _____ the final of the Dunhill Cup by the prospect of topp
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[001] now less of an option than it was only a few decades _____ , and meals of a predictable composition served at se
[002] heir pregnancy, an enormous change from twenty years _____ , when the incidence of sonograms was virtually nonex
[003] cted sex offenders? Is this not enough? A few months _____ I wrote a letter to Governor Kitzhaber,urging him to
[004] ed in the rocks and hills. About 19.2 million years _____ , ancient mammals, including rhinos and strange bear-
[005] vatives functioned in obscurity until about a decade _____ . Lately, food scientists have been scouting out these
[006] mathematicians stopped talking to regular people long _____ , the dots in a graph are called vertices, and the li
[007] ads in sediments dating from 460 to 455 million years _____ -- push the origin of land-based fungi back some 55
[008] nd alumni say that was right 10, maybe even 5, years _____ when student celebrations outside bars on Sunnyside
[009] Golf Association tournament he attended several weeks _____ . AT ESPN headquarters here, "The Fabulous Sports Ba
[010] e marriage ended officially with their divorce a year _____ Aug. 28, the rivalry for public attention and appro
[011] Legendary Journeys," from which it spun off two years _____ . Like "Star Trek," "Xena" has its own fan conventions
[012] as yet had a real crack at Broadway. Two generations _____ this would not have been the case. Broadway was once
[013] (1992) and the surprise blockbuster "Seven" two years _____ . In one of the movie's harrowing chase scenes, Mr. D
[014] ases from the archives of the CBC, begun a few years _____ with "Jon Vickers Sings Verdi and Puccini, " and a 1
[015] ring, inverted ska rhythm he devised nearly 40 years _____ once again enjoys worldwide popularity, and after a
[016] stras in the music of his native England. Two years _____ , Mr. Gardiner and the Philharmonia Orchestra made an
[017] diosyncratic portrayal, the show would have died long _____ as inconsequential family piffle. Lorne's Corollary (
[018] visable now, " he said. LIGHTLY more than two years _____ , a group of high- powered and well-connected New York
[019] Swiss city on Aug. 28, 1897, and resolved 100 years _____ today to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The
[020] ed, for a winner. Almost always, they lose. Not long _____ the Jets fired a coach who had lost his last five ga
[021] him with one who had lost his last seven. Two years _____ the team won 3 games and lost 13, the worst record
[022] usan Jane Gilman Washington writer Twenty-five years _____ , had anyone ever heard of "telecommuting " to work?
[023] ver heard of "telecommuting " to work? Twenty years _____ , was there such a thing as a "contract worker " ? Th
[024] formation by a Christian monk more than 10 centuries _____ . It was built for the seclusion of monastic life, and
[025] vertiginous topography: how, so many millions of years _____ , spare bits of three continents collided to form Cap
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[001] enues had failed and there was no alternative. This _____ leaves Web builders in a precarious position. We hav
[002] in danger of extinction - despite the fact that this _____ had long since passed from the world. The outbreak of
[003] blems of refugees. Many refugees return home when the _____ in their country of origin stabilizes. Between 1991
[004] nsibility ought not be selective, whereby the current _____ requires a clear commitment that fits with the extent
[005] urces, because of lack of clarity regarding the legal _____ of the ex situ collections. Motion to authorise pub
[006] ors face. However, few of those focus on the unique _____ of a Chinese writer in a non-native English speaking
[007] h, "Mrs. Cheney is right in saying it is a difficult _____ because of the First Amendment, but that doesn't mean
[008] h, "Mrs. Cheney is right in saying it is a difficult _____ because of the First Amendment, but that doesn't mean
[009] one meaning of which is to acquaint with the existing _____ . Orientate won't generate a spellcheck error message;
[010] suggested that the objective constituent of a visual _____ can be regarded as a certain region of physical spac
[011] ligation by spreading the word about whatever ghastly _____ he has just observed. Last January, Wolf went to Eas
[012] rkers to say that the best way to improve one's work _____ is for workers to rely on themselves, rather than to
[013] nction today, but 'they aren't relevant to my job, my _____ , my life. ' Consequently, a majority of non- union wo
[014] suffered the consequences in a take-one-for-the-team _____ . The consolation for the Orioles (85-47) was that the
[015] to all concerned, year after year. To realists, the _____ is clear. The cost of producing books, even without i
[016] power could flow into the Russian network. A win-win _____ . Water now wastefully flowing over dams during the n
[017] -- for an entrepreneur ready to take advantage of the _____ . Look at what's happening with office space. Most ci
[018] ught that (under his guidance) it could deal with any _____ . Soane believed in progress; he did not believe that
[019] television is still one of two areas of programming ( _____ comedy is the other) in which Britain trails America
[020] the play, by showing war in its true horror. But the _____ isn't as simple as that. For one thing, it is technic
[021] isers out of the power of insurers, this is an ironic _____ for Fimbra to have got itself into". The campaign con
[022] -third at most. European Commission officials say the _____ is totally unacceptable. "Chips are the beginning an
[023] roblem. He declined to give any official view on the _____ except to say: "Any Marxist must say it's a good thi
[024] ary escort to enter Nagorny Karabakh and compared the _____ with Afghanistan. President Corazon Aquino of the Phi
[025] s to introduce reforms as anxiety grew here that the _____ in East Germany could hurtle out of control. "Interna
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[001] feed on dead animal matter in the third, or butyric, _____ of decomposition. Pest control, as practiced today
[002] Vogue, and Iris Love, the classical archeologist. On _____ that night was the New York Philharmonic in a concert
[003] o escape the flooded taxi was being filmed on a sound _____ that housed a large tank. (The cab's plunge into the
[004] AI's " Four Operatic Portraits, "which were filmed on _____ and in costume during a single evening in 1984 at t
[005] t of "lead- ins and crossovers, " as the book for the _____ musical, "42d Street " was once, at least honestly, c
[006] immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, or its late _____ , AIDS. There were 3 million new infections, the vast
[007] the Egyptian entrepreneur who swept onto the British _____ about the time Diana was marrying Prince Charles (Ph
[008] wagon, to be exact. Its matte black roof rack is my _____ , my canvas, a blank slate for expressing myself. It'
[009] oduction, replete with extraneous thumpings from the _____ , with a 1996 take on the Second Symphony. Stratas is
[010] don, Interact Theatre Company's Catherine Flye, Arena _____ 's Doug Wager and the Actors' Theatre of Washington's
[011] ke the emerging butterfly, we have left our formative _____ . Future Survival Guide 1. If you are not there alread
[012] utfit made my gold CD- ROMs.) We're now at the early _____ of electronic publishing, and the late
[013] of electronic publishing, and the late _____ of traditional book publishing. An early edition of a
[014] tensive. They are particularly evident, at this early _____ of the Information Age, in the financial, computer, r
[015] ies in the 60 and 90 gigahertz range, now in the test _____ , will use a dish the size of a dinner plate and late
[016] antly determine, with a high degree of accuracy, the _____ of a particular fruit or vegetable at the moment. The
[017] ve a shower of water and nutrients suitable for that _____ of growth. In another technique, lettuce is grown on
[018] ormula containing all the proper ingredients for that _____ of life flows by gravity from a refrigerated unit (ho
[019] t content automatically based on the piglets' growth _____ , and has a robust body that resists abuse. She also
[020] phisticated or wealthy enough to have gone beyond the _____ of needing to display the fruit of their conspicuous
[021] e in 1986. But over selling the building - the final _____ in this petty and vindictive plan to deprive London o
[022] k architectural style would be more appropriate to a _____ set. The same architect has designed a large office b
[023] it of being original. Bath, after all, was a sort of _____ -set town largely built under the patronage of Ralph A
[024] s he designed, Jones sprang mysteriously on to centre- _____ . The organisers and sponsors of the exhibition, who a
[025] ubstantial building projects, he was celebrated as a _____ - designer and a master of special effects. Working w
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[001] has shortened. For example, the growing season just _____ of the sea has been reduced by an average of 10 days,
[002] e Mexican, French, southern Chinese (Cantonese), and _____ Indian cooking. This type of regional cuisine has m
[003] tes on Earth, the rotation axis defining the North--- _____ vector. Diffuse aurora are found on the equatorward
[004] The Knoxville Incline (1890), built on Pittsburgh's _____ Side and designed with an 18-degree curve, is the lon
[005] don't honestly know if it's a good thing." All across _____ Korea, on city streets and in villages like this, ord
[006] of citrus canker, a bacterial plant disease found in _____ Florida and recently discovered in Central Florida, n
[007] r the Lady Bruins, a neighborhood league team in the _____ Bronx. "But we're watching individual players." It was
[008] as become the most serious threat to the success of _____ Africa's fledgling democratic government. Even a sho
[009] rape- prevention gates. The statistics are appalling. _____ Africa's murder rate is eight times that of the United
[010] g the Margaree River through the emerald valleys just _____ of the highlands to the Northumberland Strait and Mar
[011] It is far more authentic than the totally recreated _____ Street Seaport in New York. It is more active with c
[012] nd barbed- wire home- instruction tennis compound in _____ Florida. Likewise, there has been no rush to develop
[013] for it, the city demapped a portion of the existing _____ Oxford Street. Q. For a few years in the 1930's, dur
[014] announced recently that he would move the company to _____ Carolina after 45 years in Westchester. Property taxe
[015] al market and the 380- year- old colonial fort. Just _____ of Old Acapulco is a peninsula. This is where we retr
[016] Brazil. The Sao Paulo biennial has mushroomed into _____ America's most important art event, a world-class sh
[017] THE MAJORITY of black women in the post- Civil War _____ worked in what was euphemistically referred to as 'd
[018] kers at the investment house. They marched north to _____ across the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday. They chan
[019] layhouse, to Gotanda's lyrical 'Ballad of Yachiyo' at _____ Coast Repertory to the charming romantic comedy 'S.
[020] nry Hwang's family history, 'Golden Child,' again at _____ Coast Rep, which is scheduled to open on Broadway in
[021] eal underground volcanic activity. San Onofre, just _____ of San Clemente, is a place of steep bluffs overlook
[022] compact with organized crime. So much has changed in _____ Africa since (Steve) Biko's death in 1977. His kille
[023] political thought that reached its peak of power in _____ Africa under Biko. She is an important role model for
[024] o. She is an important role model for black women in _____ Africa and around the world. As she explained in her
[025] r autobiography, 'Across Boundaries: The Journey of a _____ African Woman Leader,' published this year in the U
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[001] The bowling center was built in 1960, and Richard's _____ , Bernie Mark, was involved since the opening. Richar
[002] The bowling center was built in 1960, and Richard's _____ , Bernie Mark, was involved since the opening. Richard
[003] as lawful permanent residents. If a brother, sister, _____ , mother, spouse or child decided to immigrate to the
[004] as lawful permanent residents. If a brother, sister, _____ , mother, spouse or child decided to immigrate to the
[005] less, that Mr. Nichols, who is 42 years old and the _____ of three, is just as culpable as Mr. (Timothy J.) McV
[006] oduction, but otherwise had no known occupation. His _____ and uncle, Ali al- Fayed, ran Harrods and Turnbull
[007] (Foley), whose mother works in advertising and whose _____ is in sales and marketing, took a summer biology cla
[008] scinating seaport. I grew up in a port town where my _____ and many others like him worked the great ocean stea
[009] Williams just keeps winning, and sooner or later her _____ and instructor will arrive from his moat and barbed-
[010] rrowed $40, 000 from her family to gut the space. Her _____ , a retired postmaster, flew east from the family hom
[011] 'perfectly normal' West Belfast family; that is, his _____ and four brothers all shared his experience of the de
[012] that now, just as John becomes the leading man, his _____ - from the grave - may end up denying his son that r
[013] ed children. John Cooke, who owned 10 percent of his _____ 's business, must now try to find the money to buy th
[014] erence in perspective. John knew what was behind his _____ 's desire, but he also realized that no one outside t
[015] times. Raljon had become a sort of talisman for his _____ , the way 'Rosebud' was for Citizen Kane. In Cooke lor
[016] es to the books, recounting a story of how Chatwin's _____ , home from the war, drove the family into Wales (an
[017] on with audio equipment began in high school when his _____ brought home and abandoned a reel-to- reel tape reco
[018] entences and deft evocations of mood. " Mr. Salter's _____ was first in his class at West Point, an engineer and
[019] childhood. Mr. Salter, an only child, followed in his _____ 's footsteps to West Point. Briefly, he writes in his
[020] e could be smarter and have a better memory than your _____ !" Farfetched? Such comments may not be unusual as we
[021] ere was Jones's powerful and lasting influence as the _____ of English classical architecture; with Palladio he w
[022] his ability to balance Modernism with tradition. His _____ ran a small building business in Dorset. From school
[023] hey went into partnership, and Hopkins persuaded his _____ , now running Taylor Woodrow Industrial Estates, to en
[024] on. "You've all gone mad," exclaimed Speer's elderly _____ (also an architect) when he saw the plans. German ci
[025] mpson's executed works comprise only a house for his _____ in Sussex which reproduces the detail rather than the
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[001] across the world. How has access to resources made a _____ in the economic development of resource rich and reso
[002] ming? Have you ever been on a farm? ’Ä¢ What is the _____ between organic food and other food you might buy in
[003] und the mind. The need for the mind to symbolize the _____ between species became even stronger after genetic re
[004] at research with chimpanzees has begun to erode this _____ . A number of governmental science foundations and
[005] age use and not some other behavior. 7 An important _____ between the original tool discovery and the language
[006] ult features from the point of view of simple finite _____ schemes due to the term. This is a ``transport'' or
[007] t was very close to its release height. The estimated _____ between the heights was no more that 3 mm for the ra
[008] e paper. "We found that good parenting can make a big _____ in preventing early alcohol and marijuana use. Good
[009] tion 8 rent subsidies for the poor, which make up the _____ between 30 percent of a recipient's income and the m
[010] ar is like dining at Taco Bell in Guadalajara.) The _____ may be that Ms. Pida lives in Trumbull while Mrs. (Lo
[011] happens, is one of the most poignant examples of this _____ in perspective. John knew what was behind his father
[012] applies to salable personal skills for tomorrow. The _____ between the "knows" and the "know-nots" is not a mat
[013] nt, it is quite a shock to find that this makes a big _____ . Now that Japanese interest rates have risen, predic
[014] , is another example of how biotechnology can make a _____ . The method used for centuries in potato planting is
[015] crease. The current trend however, is an assertion of _____ . As the confidence of Muslim communities grows, we se
[016] accessible to central London. On BR's own figures the _____ in journey times to most central London locations fro
[017] n't even have ambition. Ordinary people can tell the _____ ". Although some members of the Royal Fine Arts Commi
[018] echniques to modern ones. This is not so: the crucial _____ between old and new is how it keeps dry. Modern house
[019] bodiment of the national one. This is one significant _____ between fiction and existence. In real life, men call
[020] thought that it probably won't make a vast amount of _____ in the long run. As Jeffrey Richards showed in the fi
[021] ern an effort at a human relationship across cultural _____ : Pizarro's fascination with the defeated Inca god-kin
[022] tal's figures show a £3.4m profit, with most of the _____ written off earlier through the balance sheet. Sandhu
[023] r cent below average, showing much less of a regional _____ than is often assumed. Bonuses are spreading to more
[024] nomy. The British line has been that there is a huge _____ between the image of Britain accepted in South Afric
[025] Czechoslovakia: it had shown that "people can make a _____ ". Living in a totalitarian system, he said, "you are
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[001] Atkins and I. Bowler. Food in Society. 2001. Arnold _____ . pp. 274-280, 297-298, 301-304. 1019 words. Unde
[002] Blake Organic Farming and Growing. 1990. The Crowood _____ . pp. 9-12. 965 words Who Buys What? How the Family
[003] ween the anthrax vaccine and PB, Cohen said during a _____ conference here. Anthrax vaccine has been used in the
[004] tion, Djoko Susilo M.A., made this announcement at a _____ conference held at the legislature complex in Jakarta
[005] tions have been debated in the popular and technical _____ , no objective evaluation methodology has been propos
[006] ction can arise between two surfaces even before they _____ against one another, through the formation of adhesi
[007] ences'' by Sloane and Plouffe, published by Academic _____ , is not a normal book. It contains a lexicographical
[008] way to combat violence on urban streets. Earlier at a _____ conference on another subject, Daley commented on th
[009] contrast-and- compare positions and eagerly seeking _____ attention. All are demurring sweetly, saying they ha
[010] t was not for lack of trying by the celebrity-fueled _____ that has come to girdle the globe. Nor was it for la
[011] ion and religious persecution they are suffering. His _____ conference afterwards at the National
[012] conference afterwards at the National _____ Club was packed - perhaps because it is August, and
[013] reporters may have been goaded into attendance at the _____ conference by one of Wolf's typically reproachful, g
[014] more. The opening chapter of Musclebound (Mysterious _____ , $22) finds Eva (Wylie) out of shape and banned from
[015] the year's most unlikely reclamation projects, Ecco _____ has reissued 'The Bad Seed' in an edition featuring
[016] shbulbs. The princess was hounded mercilessly by the _____ and she was ceaselessly photographed with Charles or
[017] e Yorkshire Post, it was a 'baptism by fire, with the _____ as high priest. ' Diana resigned her teaching post at
[018] , and an accountant played with the giant hydraulic _____ in the jewelry studio, making dies for earrings and
[019] te prices rise much more than expected, an Associated _____ poll shows. More than half of those surveyed say the
[020] h century. Then when Gutenberg developed his printing _____ , the paper explosion really took off. Today paper is
[021] rial that resembles pancake mix. Run through a roller _____ , the mixture produces large sheets that are dried an
[022] as all you were trying to do in the first place), or _____ unknown digits, the value of which no one has explain
[023] llowed to cool to room temperature while still in the _____ process. Then it is heated again to the same temperat
[024] an, A-road architecture. The specialist architectural _____ ignores this amorphous school of design, while even t
[025] ting architects is the consensus created by the trade _____ . The theory is that "quality architecture" not only h
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[001] h the NRP and the other parties of the right, plan to _____ stubbornly against further concessions to the Palesti
[002] h the NRP and the other parties of the right, plan to _____ stubbornly against further concessions to the Palesti
[003] e case at hand somehow made it a false analogy. So to _____ this kind of thing I have captured here for your enj
[004] to promoting women’Äôs health have joined forces to _____ maternal mortality, announcing a joint Statement on
[005] to promoting women’Äôs health have joined forces to _____ maternal mortality, announcing a joint Statement on
[006] e village square of Bunol turned red in a giant food _____ with ripe tomatoes. Upwards of 20,000 people pelted o
[007] the Revolution for his book "Chaining the Hudson: The _____ for the River in the American Revolution " (Lyle Stua
[008] agency, says Old Town is the last stronghold in this _____ to preserve the character of Manassas. Then he bought
[009] ed a literary bent. The Walt Disney Co. said it won't _____ a judge's order to turn over excerpts of main mouse M
[010] rehabilitative effort is being hindered by a brewing _____ over bilingual education and lingering animosity towar
[011] establishment media is presenting both sides in the _____ for control of the Teamsters as equally scandal-taint
[012] s. Whitewater prosecutors won a round today in their _____ to obtain a lawyer's notes of his conversation with
[013] ary Cobbs, for whom she has cared throughout Cobbs's _____ with breast cancer. Cooper accompanies her mother to
[014] esult in our designing our own successors. Those who _____ the process stand to lose incredible benefits. Those
[015] ults? One day we will be able to program our body to _____ illness, disease, and physical injury. It is revoluti
[016] itecture, although difficult to grasp, is a spirited _____ against lumpen, vacuous architectural junk. The threa
[017] wandering. It is neither sentimental nor elitist to _____ to preserve Portobello Road. Representatives of every
[018] gentlemen of the Pearl are taking off their jackets to _____ the bid so the British insurer's shareholders are in
[019] they will have to accept unless they are prepared to _____ for fair value. ’Ä¢Business & City Page 27 891003 Col
[020] is rule, still in existence while Visa and Mastercard _____ a rearguard action with the Office of Fair Trading, p
[021] will protect the country in the Security Council and _____ against the imposition of sanctions. That may be tru
[022] nbreakable. It has no weaknesses, it's impossible to _____ ". But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had prov
[023] ns through their own country to the West, and police _____ back thousands who block the tracks and want to jump
[024] ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 14 891007 Noriega threatens to _____ "enemies within' From CHRIS MCGREAL in Panama City P
[025] government has armed refugees from Ethiopia to help _____ the rebels; deserters from the army are also roaming