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TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy.
TV ads accurately target the right people
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A number of Korean businesses went bankrupt, either because of dishonest practices or because the possible Korean share of world markets for some products, like automobiles, had been overestimated.
The Korean share of the automobile market is larger than initially thought
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But they showed what true love is when Bo took over John's medical care and for seven weeks forced him to drink gallons of water to flush out stubborn kidney stones.
Bo was determined to fix John's kidney problems.
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Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing?
They stared at the floor the entire meeting.
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But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.
The characters in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are law-abiding
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But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter.
This letter is short
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Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.
Lewinsky had sexual relations with Hillary Clinton.
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perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age.
Her art is so bad it appears a monkey could have painted it.
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Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
Japanese language has been influenced by Sottish language in the past.
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His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dala's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dala was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments.
Everyone in the Surrealist movement got along well
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It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul.
There was a lot of gender-based discrimination, but it was all well worth it.
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This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
The stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California are shown as humorous.
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When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.
De Niro possesses a signature grimace.
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In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.
A policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group is entirely possible.
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While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.
Frightful headlines which include words such as huge, powerful, and fast, can disturb the public peace.
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Now I find I hate returning e-mails.
E-mail is obsolete and people refuse to use it anymore.
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Fear of repeating the deadly clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members has deterred police from raiding the compound.
The compound was located in South Texas.
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The protective aura that once insulated the family has vanished.
The family's protection is still strong
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The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.
Seems like a sure thing, Willey and Clinton were only friends, nothing happened.
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On Meet the Press , he insisted that the $150 he allots to each person's monthly insurance premium is not a cap.
Nobody gets more than $150 for their monthly insurance payment.
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So are bitchin' and stoked . Every generation insists on having its own new words for the most aggressively up-to-date aspects of life.
Every generation insists on the same old words for up-to-date aspects of life.
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(Just ask New Kids on the Block.
They think you should ask the Grateful Dead.instead of New Kids on the Block.
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will be more accurate than jurors who are unsure about only one criterion (does my doubt exceed 5 percent?)
Jurors must have absolutely no doubt when reaching their verdicts.
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An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
The Editor of the local rag hates freedom, wants to give a "get out of Jail free" card to all people who are charged.
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On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence.
The meek and girly Harvard group sure knew what they were goin' on about, even if they were chill as a cucumber.
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Personally, I think the Bush camp is acting like brats that didn't get everything they wanted at Christmas.
The author is talking about a camp in Australia.
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The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.
It is assumed that private investors are inflating its value.
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Pols spend their dotage as think tank scholars or consultants or part-time lobbyists ( Bob Dole) and are trotted out periodically for sage commentary.
Pols occasionally provide sage commentary
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(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.
The broadcasters had a knock down Drag Out over the Basketball game in the world series.
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Some weeks before, Nash had declined a University of Chicago offer of an endowed chair on the grounds that he was scheduled to become the emperor of Antarctica.
Nash is now the emperor of Antarctica.
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If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point.
Thus, you shall pull asunder the bonds of them, making what she says and calls unto him verily, null.
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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Starr's increase in popularity causes Clinton's popularity it decrease.
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Demonstrations on television never look right.
The failure to engender reforms can be blamed on the televised nature of the demonstrations.
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Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.
Degas really got into being an upper crust member of France.
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In addition to all the things we can't foresee, the historical verdict on Clinton will also hinge on such issues as whether he manages to steer welfare reform back in the right direction; whether he avoids being drawn into a counterproductive tax cut; and whether he overcomes his own recent history to lead campaign-finance reform.
Clinton can do very little to repair his reputation.
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Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.
Because William Shawn was so loved, Mehta performed numerous fawning acts in his general direction.
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He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
He he shows a mastery of florid prose.
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The ad displays information in a format similar to a stock ticker.
The ad displays information rapidly and up to the minute.
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When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.
There was little Wintour could do about the need to get back and forth between NYC and London.
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The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray.
If you don't make up your mind right now, it'll all be gone.
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The Constitution requires only that a senator when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
You may outside the state you are representing in the state.
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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.
Cracking down on compulsives is very expensive
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She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.
Futurists prognosticate that the fuel-cell engine should be able to surpass the gasoline engine as the primary source of internal power for machines.
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Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran.
The US will continue its policy of engagement to avoid a confrontation with Iraq.
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Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
Wolff is known for his hackneyed ideas.
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Are we talking about dozens of people or thousands?
We thus speak of exactly Four Score Philistines, seeking to loose the hounds of hell.
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Chrysler's elaborate system of dealerships might, in theory, help Mercedes crack the U.S. market, where its share is now less than 1 percent.
Verily, Mercedes is the most abundantly selling brand yielding a full Cornucopia at Thanksgiving.
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(Frank is hardly the first to note that the tastes of a hip bohemian elite have spread to the masses, or to argue that the results of this cultural migration are deleterious.
Most rich folks enjoy a simple and frugal lifestyle.
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Many on both sides anticipate that the Democratic primary of 2000 will be a showdown, with Dick Gephardt representing the old Dems and Al Gore standing in for the new.
Bringing the Fatted calf to market, Gore will take up the solid mantle of the past as Gephardt dons the bright Knight's shining armor of the starry future.
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The problem is that when a documentary filmmaker seems too scared or cool or arty to violate his own immaculate aesthetic, he ends up weakening his case.
Documentary filmmakers obey their rules, like biting at the bit, but rein themselves in, strenthening their case.
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New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction
Voting restrictions and suppression have yet to surface in the United States.
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They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man.
This guy is totally rational well behaved.
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Krugman would also have found out that the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is not representative of the way things Bonds are important, and what businessmen are doing is important.
The behavior of the stock market determines the behavior of bonds.
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The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.
Clinton impeached the Republican party.
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On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts.
The board of education in Kansas follows science in determining curricula.
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Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.
Shame was what Powell felt, knowin' 'bout his droppin' out, lyin' just to get into school at the top Universitylater, bein' top dog at Harvard then kicked out.
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Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime.
What you said seems as useless as a one armed boxer, dude.
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As noted previously, the Shopping Avenger is but one superhero, and he issues abject apologies to all those who did not receive personal responses.
The Shopping avenger is a villain.
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And so, as I said, the co-op's story helps me to resist the pull of fatalism and pessimism.
That lame co-op jam is straight up sick, it makes me real low.
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When a trompe l'oeil shaving brush and a match turn up later in the show in Magritte's Personal Values (1952), they have an oneiric suggestiveness quite in contrast to Murphy's flat factuality.
Murphy was an excitable person.
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But these actors also convey the sense of an internal furnace of pain and anxiety that gives fevered glow to such minutiae (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). However, the play itself is found wanting.
Mr. Brantley has never seen a play.
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While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine.
Poisoning canines is illegal.
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When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.
Hearing that Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence makes you wonder about the Attorney General.
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So far, we'd spent about 10 minutes decoding just five words, but I felt on top of them and was ready to move on.
Decoding the words was impossible.
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Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.
Clinton accuses Gerth of cronyism
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Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.
Monday Night Football was absent in the groups' top 10.
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It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art.
Tom DeLay's opinion of better art is unable to be speculated.
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To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.
Journalists don't ask about sensitive things
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Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.
A cease-fire was instantiated in 1990.
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And can anybody remember Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis-playing physician?
Renee Richards is a known cis-gender person.
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Hong Kongers are increasingly restless about Chinese rule.
Those of Hong Kong favor Chinese rule.
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Now he believes he can be president.
He has little motivation in life.
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It means that you're the seventh or eighth on the call list to be lied to, instead of the 25 th .
One's opinion is that those that are on a call list are conversed with with honesty.
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At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty.
Bill Gates was sentenced for murdering Vince Foster.
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Industry folks fear they have given too much away.
Those of industry refuse to give objects away.
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When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.
De Niro fails to possess a signature grimace.
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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.
It is unlikely to affect elections because of a law that was passed
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The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it.
Mr. Graham has criticized the PDFA
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He was tall, charismatic, with piercing blue eyes that made Monica weak inside--and, best of all, he was the most powerful man on Earth!
The man worked as a bouncer in a club.
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As a jazz composer, Sun Ra never fulfilled the bright promise of his early recordings like Jazz in Silhouette . But by founding a cult, he earned a lasting place in the larger culture, which otherwise might have eluded him.
Sun Ra is known to have disliked jazz music as a whole.
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If granny needed an operation, there went the tuition for junior's college.
Granny needs an operation for her heart
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My opinion is that not every perjury is a high crime, as grounds for removing a president from office.
The opinion describes that every form of perjury is high crime.
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Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)?
The author says the army will be raised by wolves.
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This makes it one of the few possible end runs around the meritocratic-credentialing complex, whereby standardized test scores determine future opportunities.
Standardized test scores are useless in determining future opportunities.
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dull, provincial, and oddly prevalent on U.S. comedy shows.
Comedy shows are illegal in America.
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Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).
Arroway feels explanations are a waste of time.
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Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.
The federal government knows that disaster money is largely forgotten about.
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Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.
Schumer is D'Amato
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Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.
Benigni is unlike Jerry Lewis
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It's impossible today to realize how shocking The Picture of Dorian Gray was to 1890s readers.
It is possible to determine the effect of The Picture of Dorian Gray towards 19th century readers.
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Pols spend their dotage as think tank scholars or consultants or part-time lobbyists ( Bob Dole) and are trotted out periodically for sage commentary.
Pols provide foolish commentary
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mean is we moved closer, in,
They moved further away.
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
He believes that others exist as he does.
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They're more interested in spiritual self-flagellation and renewal.
They are unwilling to endure physical pain for spiritual retribution.
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But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.
The Wild Bunch was released before Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Which brings us to possibility No.
The author is willing to compromise.
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There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.
He injured himself on the door.
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The McCain campaign has more specific evidence of success.
The McCain campaign has been unsuccessful.
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Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
There are those in Japan who still understand the archaic form of Korean language.
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That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.
In order for this to work, a west local sales manager will probably get you to do something that will help someone else profit.
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