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[001] stood how much he truly loved her, and he would again _____ , more gently this time, why he had to stop seeing her.
[002] $110. 80 and interest of $48. 82. The notice did not _____ why they would owe penalties and interest on no addi
[003] nd twice Winn-Dixie's. On fundamentals, it is hard to _____ why Safeway fetches so much more than, say, Albertso
[004] lent afterward. The players did not have the words to _____ what Cynthia Cooper had just done to them. With her g
[005] Manassas. Then he bought one, for $180,000. He can't _____ exactly what made him do it, except a general fear t
[006] y won't watch over us, Someone Else will. How else to _____ an August of sparkling blue skies, golden weekend af
[007] director of the Pinacoteca of Sao Paulo, attempts to _____ this in the catalogue: 'A profile of 20th century Bra
[008] -round reductions to Hawaii and Mexico. First, let's _____ that 21-day advance purchase fares (APEX, or excursi
[009] s and trays, and other baking equipment - which might _____ the back pain I've had lately. Several times every
[010] nts a year. It's a crime not to help them! Could you _____ to an accident victim why you didn't take the trouble
[011] over, and has to find one of the accepted labels to _____ it. So the present system is a bit dishonest you mig
[012] y him more than the damage to his car. I started to _____ what had happened and persuade him it wasn't as bad
[013] you would like to do, or have done in the past, and _____ very briefly what it involves, as well as any specia
[014] ell. He had us where he wanted us. How could we ever _____ why we were driving so fast? What excuse did we hav
[015] y English, they have questions at the back and they _____ some difficult words, but I just enjoy the story and
[016] not in prison policy? Why doesn't Mr Howard have to _____ what he is gaining for every extra pound of our mone
[017] And there's no need for a single conspiracy theory to _____ any of it. This stuff's as American as apple pie. Th
[018] e 'it was given to me by the police'? And how do you _____ the fact that Si Mohamed Mustapha, the local Islamis
[019] n theory the leaders of society, the people chosen to _____ the world to us, to tease out our dilemmas and make o
[020] s. Moralising and admonishing cannot do it, which may _____ why so many people are so disgruntled at the news tha
[021] body in the case of grant- maintained schools) should _____ why it has made the decision and should give you ins
[022] t up workshops for teachers in its project schools to _____ its findings. At the very least, he says, researchers
[023] they can find a job at all. Their fearful remarks help _____ why since1975 the number of school-leavers entering t
[024] ts of physical aggression,and they may not be able to _____ what is happening to a sympathetic adult. On the oth
[025] ooked like the kind of man who would understand. If I _____ , will you help me ?' 'I'll listen to you,' I said. 'T
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[001] en may expand Harry's in a Hurry nationally or simply _____ Harry's food at additional Boston Markets. Boston Ch
[002] ll of them were made from his West Wing office. They _____ a new glimpse at the mechanics of money politics at t
[003] ated up in late 1995 and early 1996. The call sheets _____ the Vice President schmoozing trivia by updating him
[004] - terms somewhere between the wholesale rate lenders _____ brokers and the retail rate available to direct custo
[005] udents in at least 18 colleges and universities that _____ full degree programs. Nearly half the students come f
[006] nt public schools in the District, schools that would _____ students, teachers and parents the opportunity to esc
[007] Quartet and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio will _____ programs of his chamber music, and William Sharp will
[008] June 1996 he was all set to pursue a degree. Nynex's _____ , he felt, was too good to pass up. Brown decided to f
[009] vice as well. And BellSouth hopes before too long to _____ long-distance service, pitting itself against some hi
[010] local service, scores of companies have permission to _____ competing service. So far, most of the competitors' e
[011] have to decide whether to accept the most attractive _____ , or to allow USEC to sell shares through a public off
[012] rst Bancshares Inc, it had decided to reject the new _____ . Peoples Bank rejected Carolina First's
[013] . Peoples Bank rejected Carolina First's _____ to acquire Peoples for about $42 a share. The Tors
[014] urth-grade reading and eighth-grade mathematics will _____ , for the first time, an assessment of individual stud
[015] has a good reason for wanting them. However, do not _____ if no one asks you. AFTER THE ACCIDENT: If there is
[016] ll. Other than the convenient location, they usually _____ few comforts or services and could hardly be called
[017] Pluto and Micky Mouse and Goofy, come up to you and _____ to talk, which the kids thought was great. You could
[018] in a paper bag, and takes your money. Sometimes they _____ to deliver the bag to your house. Otherwise, you wal
[019] logy and the education that the rest of the world can _____ ; it is anxious to trade, and it is offering many inte
[020] ising campaign. It showed two Scotsmen accepting the _____ of travel for two for the price of one first-class ti
[021] The story of the universe is the number one story. I _____ these ideas as the beginning of something.' Charles J
[022] teachers. I took the entrance exams and got a two E _____ , that decided it. None of my family had ever gone to
[023] ols are also building on their European locations to _____ distinctive programmes. As well as the usual benefit
[024] a big issue,' warns Professor Farber. 'Many# schools _____ MBAs and it is by no means clear who are the good on
[025] rs in the commercial sector, as well as colleges that _____ open or distance learning expertise. In some cases, b
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[001] ed a treatment that might help. As the doctor went to _____ the medicine, Alexander was given a letter from Gener
[002] ves are probably beginning to wonder how they should _____ for the 21st century. As the nation returns to work
[003] center of the site was a key feature of the plan. To _____ for it, the city demapped a portion of the existing S
[004] al: a luxury hotel, and an ordinary cheap hotel. Then _____ a short report or composition (maximum 500 words), g
[005] s a lot of people for dinner, it takes three days to _____ the table and three days to do the washing-up. Every
[006] perts tell us that they do, because they can help us _____ for the problems of everyday life. The images in our
[007] . They employ a consultant engineer to design it and _____ all the plans. Then someone has to build it, and thi
[008] room too demanding? 'There are ways in which you can _____ a small child for school,' says Jeni Hooper, 'and the
[009] No amount of practice with 'guinea pig' students can _____ a teacher for the infinite variety of ability levels
[010] ty library before you were allowed to borrow books to _____ courses. With formal accreditation come formal rights
[011] re inspections. Another commented: 'It is farcical to _____ for inspection. A school should be educating, not wor
[012] arm of Britain plc. Its role, they say, should be to _____ the way for British trade delegations, to help sell B
[013] dense two qualifications into one year and partly to _____ students for the pressures of their career. It has b
[014] ench governments were close allies, and had agreed to _____ for war together. The most important officers in the
[015] a map? If Mr MacGillivray can help me, perhaps we can _____ something for tomorrow.' It seemed strange for me to
[016] Miss Jenkyns asked me to come downstairs and help her _____ some fruit. Although Miss Jessie tried to make me sta
[017] tow the boat.' Then he added, 'It's very diicult to _____ a meal and you both look tired.' Our only reply was
[018] after that to fix the cover. And then we started to _____ supper. We needed some hot water to make tea, so we
[019] t George, and take him away. So he stopped trying to _____ breakfast, and he put on his coat. Then he sat in the
[020] llected wood to make a fire. Harris and I started to _____ the potatoes. This became a very big job. We began qu
[021] d Wickem. Shall I send the women from the village to _____ the body?' No, Wickem. That was not mentioned,' said
[022] to be an opera lover. We can talk about music while I _____ the test instruments. The car phone rang. Rick answe
[023] rom a 'slave' or a 'free' family. Chike tried hard to _____ his students for their examinations. The day after h
[024] ' Catherine thought for a moment. Somehow she had to _____ him for Edgar's visit. 'Isabella and Edgar said they
[025] I didn't know the way.' I made her put on her hat and _____ to leave. 'Whose house is this?' she asked suddenly.
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[001] lf conscious in one of the Sventitskys' bedrooms. The _____ of the house was dark and quiet, but one nervous, an
[002] t was partly the war, and then the revolution did the _____ . Suddenly everyone was free, free to create themselve
[003] yourself,' Yury told his father-in law. 'Let's have a _____ and a talk. We've cut a lot of wood in a short time.'
[004] or them to be together - and to be separated from the _____ of the world. They were both disappointed at how the
[005] and others, including Uncle Kolya, my father and the _____ of us must leave Russia. We are being sent away. This
[006] lived in the rooms under the ground floor. Unlike the _____ of the building, these rooms were always dry and warm
[007] ip became king, and Macedonia's relationship with the _____ of Greece changed for ever. Chapter 2 A Macedonian
[008] but to lead them.' Alexander was not too worried. The _____ of the Greeks hated Sparta more than, they hated Mace
[009] Macedonian king, and now his house was safe - but the _____ were burnt to the ground. 30,000 Thebans, including w
[010] s immortal mother-'had held his heel arid covered the _____ of his body in the water of the legendary River Styx.
[011] s copy was so important to Alexander that he liked to _____ his head on it when he slept. For many years people h
[012] hungry soldiers would have to return to Europe. The _____ of the Persian commanders disagreed with Memnon. Inst
[013] prisoner, and later sent to Macedonia as slaves; the _____ were killed. Alexander used this cruel treatment as a
[014] his 'mother', Queen Ada, in charge of Caria. With the _____ of the army, he marched to Gordium (in central Turkey
[015] the Persians. Enormous numbers of Persians died. The _____ of the Persian army broke into small groups, and most
[016] onto the back of his horse Bucephalas, who walked the _____ of the crossing with water up to his shoulders. Alexa
[017] n inside the city. But the enemy managed to break the _____ of the Macedonian ladder and only three of his bodygu
[018] s that they had conquered. They refused to leave. The _____ of the Macedonian soldiers supported them. If you sen
[019] nted him to send the old soldiers home, but allow the _____ of them to stay. The problem was solved, and Alexande
[020] rnor who stepped up and took over from Mr. Weld. The _____ of the state political scene is shifting and swirling
[021] d upon as a delicate condition requiring constant bed _____ or some measure of confinement. Travel - for work or
[022] mpany Museum and the Manassas Museum. But most of the _____ of it will be auctioned, he said. Of the county's
[023] rst two are in the twilight of their careers, and the _____ are dead. They may all have written classics but the
[024] nd pays bills for the federal Bureau of Prisons. The _____ of us range from our thirties to our mid-fifties. Th
[025] ront of the other, but in a larger sense they-and the _____ of California-moved only backward. 'This same kind o
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[001] ed to know. 'Well, you see, Yury, we gave part of the _____ floor to the Agricultural Academy and the top floor a
[002] to his back. He was hardly able to crawl along on the _____ . He spoke a few w0rds with great diiculty: 'Look out,
[003] g, and he and his family lived in the rooms under the _____ floor. Unlike the rest of the building, these rooms w
[004] w his house was safe - but the rest were burnt to the _____ . 30,000 Thebans, including women and children, were t
[005] r's boat touched the beach, he threw his spear at the _____ as a sign that this land was now his. With his friend
[006] liked to camp some distance from their chosen battle _____ and did not march before the sun came up. The Macedo
[007] spears. Although they were diicult to defeat on flat _____ , the Macedonians were having problems on the steep ri
[008] the field, they saw that spears had been stuck in the _____ to hurt any horses that ran at the enemy lines. They
[009] e and for their horses. They also noticed that uneven _____ had been flattened to help the drivers of the famous
[010] ad, picking men up and throwing them violently to the _____ . Then, frightened and tired, they walked slowly backw
[011] hich is the way many travelers see it) than from the _____ . And there's a good reason why that's so. Early Euro
[012] nsferring their maps "from parchment or paper to the _____ itself. " IN Louisiana, if a person tries to steal
[013] in hard hats perching on staging or burrowing in the _____ , Mr. Faude was already making plans for the return of
[014] he fears and joys of patriots traversing the "Neutral _____ " between the British outposts north of the Harlem Ri
[015] ht up the gamey flavor of duck breast, and a crust of _____ hazelnuts and garlic sealed in the succulence of thi
[016] y said. 'The longer it takes to put the shovel in the _____ for a great stadium, the bigger the challenge to rein
[017] Water and mud are bubbling up from the crusty yellow _____ all around us; vents are belching steam 20 feet in t
[018] r cone that formed as new magma welled up out of the _____ and solidified. Until this month, Soufriere Hills was
[019] s worth $59 billion. Still, regional banks are losing _____ to a handful of increasingly nationwide banking comp
[020] arder. THE RECALL last week of 25 million pounds of _____ beef sold by Hudson Foods was a forceful act, but it
[021] ange of a patch of green leaves into a patch of bare _____ . And even on that level the rate at which the jungle
[022] hen it goes through the sound barrier, people on the _____ can hear a loud bang like the noise of thunder. In f
[023] mnastics, basketball - or even digging holes in the _____ with a spade or chopping wood with an axe. Whatever
[024] , February 1995 On the NHS reforms: 'There is on the _____ a restlessness among medical staff about the number
[025] e universe. Back in the house, Jencks has knocked two _____ - floor rooms together to make one space in illustrati
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[001] s new debate on who should go to college and why, the _____ of what is offered, and academic productivity. Since
[002] epicted, is never specified. This lends a dream-like _____ to the action that may be appropriate to childhood b
[003] his gutteral commentary having nothing to do with the _____ of the food and everything to do with the Mets' losi
[004] ter all, Camrys and Accords are synonymous with high _____ and reliability to the generation of buyers who norm
[005] re. And I don't have the space to list the many high- _____ local actors and designers. And let's give a round of
[006] corn. The native corn was of fairly poor nutritional _____ and gave a poor
[007] and gave a poor _____ of grain, while the hybrid corn was of excellent
[008] of grain, while the hybrid corn was of excellent _____ and delivered at least three times as large a crop a
[009] selling everything from food to furniture - all top _____ , all at top prices. There are no bargains, and nothin
[010] em was unfair. It will be graded on its teaching and _____ of provision against its own written aims and objecti
[011] student support and guidance; learning resources; and _____ assurance and enhancement. The changes are intended
[012] ent because the university already operates internal _____ examinations across departments. Cynthia Marsh, senio
[013] g outcomes. The collegial advice and criticism called _____ Assurance was one thing; but this accreditation stuff
[014] that smaller companies can afford to invest in high- _____ training. Visitors to last year's exhibition ranged fr
[015] Funding Council for England's assessment of teaching _____ . Open learning is also available in further educatio
[016] while the Swedes have the most doubts about teaching _____ . Confidence in teaching in Britain is below average b
[017] ed after being mortally wounded in battle. The poetic _____ of Jones's prose was vividly demonstrated in 1965 whe
[018] ers began to claim that he had somehow 'improved' the _____ of the Welshman's prose. Some 20 years later, over su
[019] any architectural awards, including a number for the _____ of the interior woodwork. The institute houses numero
[020] the platform. He was 'dazzled by the fluid visionary _____ of his oratory, but the actual proposals did not rise
[021] t to creative compositional thought and expression, a _____ that is present in the music of all his students. Ab
[022] with equal attention. But he also possessed another _____ invaluable in the teacher: there was so much life and
[023] guishable from each other. They all have this winsome _____ they mistake for acting - another reason why I'm not
[024] ke newborn kittens, a pathetic 'don't hurt me please' _____ to them which drives me crazy. I'm really not surpri
[025] commemoration, Whiteread and Boltanski share another _____ with Bhimji: a preference for materials unsettling in
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[001] ed her search. Suddenly she saw Komarovsky at a card _____ , pulled out the gun and fired at him. Everyone turne
[002] He had learnt Suddenly Lara saw Komarovsky at a card _____ , pulled out the gun and fired at him. many things in
[003] y's reading room. He had a large pile of books on the _____ in front' of him and was surrounded by other regular
[004] u're alive - I'm mad with happiness! Yury sat at the _____ and wept. He thought about Tonya and his children - n
[005] ter in the evening, Yury and Lara were sitting at the _____ , discussing how to protect Katya. Someone rang the do
[006] n our session with a prayer over coffee at my kitchen _____ ("My talent is an instrument given to me by God"), th
[007] arrot slices and broccoli florets was brought to the _____ , along with a basket of bread chunks and long- handle
[008] ends that minimize labor's leverage at the bargaining _____ and lingering attitudes among unorganized workers tha
[009] r 25-point performance by leaping on to the scorer's _____ . Comets players hugged and danced in world champion
[010] iving Sinn Fein the same standing at the negotiating _____ as other parties. Northern Ireland has been plagued f
[011] n the castle at Camelot. His knights sat at a round _____ so that they were all equal - nobody was sitting at t
[012] re all equal - nobody was sitting at the head of the _____ . Many of the stories in the legends are about the ad
[013] with a spoon, and somehow I spilled it all over the _____ . It was all a sticky mess. I tried to clean it up wit
[014] ad been cleaned properly. Every hard surface - shelf, _____ - was dusty enough to write your name on with your f
[015] eople for dinner, it takes three days to prepare the _____ and three days to do the washing-up. Everybody has fi
[016] he Queen folds up her napkin and puts it down on the _____ - cloth beside her plate, the meal is over and everyb
[017] t to bed. He put his gun in the drawer of the night _____ beside his bed, and left it a few centimetres open.
[018] at's when they have club activities - sports clubs, _____ -tennis, art clubs, English clubs. And of course the A
[019] r off with something less physically demanding, like _____ -tennis. Getting the right equipment for jogging is i
[020] s difficult to get tickets. Going for walks; playing _____ -tennis, the national sport; sitting outside talking
[021] serving something very similar to apple pie to another _____ . I looked closer, and it WAS apple pie. This seemed
[022] turned out to be very busy, but we got in and got a _____ because we had reserved by telephone earlier. Howev
[023] e earlier. However, after nearly half an hour at our _____ , we still hadn't seen a waiter or been provided with a
[024] t about to put it to a vote. Noticing a woman at the _____ beside was reading the menu, I kept a watchful eye
[025] ept a watchful eye on her until she put it down on the _____ - cloth beside her plate. This was my opportunity. Ru
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[001] y a fortnight. Then the Provisional Government was in _____ of the town again. Finally, there was news of more tr
[002] e very close to Yuryatin, and that the Whites were in _____ of the region. The soldiers from the train were obvio
[003] d the house in which Yury had grown up. Markel was in _____ of a large apartment building, and he and his family
[004] oung man. When he was sixteen, he was allowed to take _____ of the government while Philip was away with the army
[005] t achievements. Alexander left his mother Olympias in _____ of Macedonia, with his father's loyal general Antipat
[006] han ever. Alexander left his 'mother', Queen Ada, in _____ of Caria. With the rest of the army, he marched to Go
[007] the Macedonians. Alexander, riding Bucephalas, led a _____ of horsemen across the river towards the enemy. The P
[008] nemy horsemen had rushed to meet the first Macedonian _____ , they had left a weak point in the centre of Darius's
[009] sailed the ships. Alexander's friend Nearchus was in _____ of the ships, which brought food for the land army. I
[010] cedonia. Alexander's mother, Olympias was oicially in _____ of Macedonia and tried to protect her power. She murd
[011] k before, the judge had acquitted Monsignor Dunn on a _____ of sexual assault, brought in a previous case by anot
[012] ory anything. They just work. A contract employee can _____ double the cost of a regular employee and still be a
[013] rde as capable of lyrical moments: Challenged by the _____ that she wasn't black enough, Lorde regrouped with he
[014] f some considerable ability, was arrested on a felony _____ of possession of cocaine. The police report said he
[015] t station house. Once inside the station house, they _____ , a wooden stick - possibly the handle of a toilet plu
[016] int accusing Ms. Quindel of a conflict of interest, a _____ she has denied. The maker of Ex-Lax, the nation's
[017] ism of the police in the Louima case from the broader _____ that was the point of the march: that the case is in
[018] ught were included in the price. Some hotels try to _____ you for things you never got! And some landlords do
[019] in the price of the room. Cheap hotels (those that _____ 20 and under per night) are easily available and oft
[020] e war a British officer, Major Ivan Hurst, was put in _____ of the Volkswagen factory. Another officer, Michael
[021] time. It's very cheap, you see. You just pay a fixed _____ , two roubles, 50 kopecs a month. I: Ah! So you don't
[022] ment supports us and the local communal police are in _____ .' And sure enough, in the village square, a man call
[023] a. This dreadful disease tends to strike any male in _____ of a boat; the smaller the boat, the greater the affl
[024] a varied life on both sides of the law and was now in _____ of the mongol son of a wealthy family, which work gav
[025] n had been similarly rescued by Auden, who was now in _____ of this ceremony: summary cannot do justice to the co
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[001] rbed the selling of stocks, setting off a region-wide _____ convulsion that sent the Philippine
[002] convulsion that sent the Philippine _____ index tumbling 9 percent on Thursday - its biggest on
[003] ome stores. A struggling local chain, Harry's Farmers _____ , pulls in customers from 20 miles away with the most
[004] as simply bullied its way into the $6 billion Atlanta _____ , spending more than $300 million to open about 60 st
[005] firm. And when dollar-denominated bonds of emerging- _____ countries are included, issuance of low-rated debt ha
[006] mpting some pundits to say that one of the best stock _____ runs in history was over. The Dow finished that day a
[007] ady-to-eat entrees like those made popular by Boston _____ . The company also has processing operations that prod
[008] sh entrees, some of which Harry's supplies to Boston _____ restaurants in the region. Boston Chicken's plans fo
[009] r stocks typically trade at a discount to the overall _____ and at a measly fraction of their own annual revenue
[010] could accurately predict the direction of the stock _____ . Cool. In the same way that America is having to ma
[011] Unemployment is down. And, notwithstanding the stock _____ 's gyrations, the news seems only to get better. Just
[012] tenants while the remaining 80 percent are rented at _____ rates. And in a time when the Federal Government has
[013] e between 30 percent of a recipient's income and the _____ -rate rent for the apartment, while turning toward mi
[014] oklyn. This is both a sign of the strengthened rental _____ and a favorable commentary on the Village at Atlantic
[015] and irresponsible fashion? TEN years after a stock _____ crash marked the beginning of the end of an earlier
[016] the church, several hundred stalls of the municipal _____ and the 380-year-old colonial fort. Just south of Ol
[017] ivaling those in Italy and Germany. The Brazilian art _____ is bursting with energy, and the nation's talented y
[018] get their piece of the American dream. A tight labor _____ and the fast pace of change in many industries, parti
[019] damental principles: Invest regularly, regardless of _____ trends; reinvest all earnings; invest in growth compa
[020] n in the face of AIDS, they concede, the heroin black _____ has defied their reach. To shoot the dope, inmates sa
[021] ggles, fashion flops and financial woes. Having lost _____ share to competitors such as Gap Inc., J. Crew and G
[022] at Chicago-based Andersen Consulting. 'The Guangzhou _____ is one of the most competitive markets in the world,
[023] uying cheap wine and single beers at the Walton Food _____ among other places. A17th-century visitor from West
[024] s Dubin of the Russian Center for Public Opinion and _____ Research. 'Things in Moscow might be bad, but Muscovi
[025] that issue. With the 10th anniversary of the stock _____ 's 23 percent plunge coming up in just a few weeks, s