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In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.
Noam Chomsky
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Linguist
Blocked
Clinton
East
Middle East
Missiles
North Korea
President Clinton
Intervened
North
Recognize
Sending
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Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
Paulo Freire
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Educator
Capitalist
Ideas
Insert
Latin
Latin America
North America
Thinking
Africa
Discuss
North
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Years ago, I saw a job for head baker for The Dorchester Hotel in London, and I didn't want to move away from the North West. But then I thought, 'I've got to do this for my career,' because I was very ambitious. So I went for it and got the job.
Paul Hollywood
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Ambitious
Hotel
London
West
Years Ago
Job
Baker
Career
Saw
Head
North
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Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.
Uday Kotak
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Regions
Significant
South
West
Bank
Branch
Case
Cent
Total
Per
Network
North
Presence
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It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.
Barbara Demick
/
Journalist
China
Difficult
Frightening
No Idea
Our Lives
Said
Sanctions
Wake Up
Idea
Dogs
Met
North
Wake
Wondering
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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
Jim Yong Kim
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Physician
Died
North Korean
Refugee
Seventeen
Time Mother Father
Border
Brothers
Sisters
North
Relatives
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'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.
Colson Whitehead
/
Novelist
Animated
Apocalypse
Better Place
Cases
Refuge
Surviving
Zone
Hope Believe Better
Exist
North
Railroad
Underground
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
Carol Burnett
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Actress
Arriving
Block
Boulevard
Miles
Mother
Stars
Followed
Hang
Movie Stars
North
Ropes
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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.
Isabel Wilkerson
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Journalist
Daughter
Great
Existence
Majority
Massive
Migration
Mother
People
Products
Very
African
African Americans
American
Fact
Owe
Meet
North
Well
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
Robert Toombs
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Former U.s. Senator
Nature
Brethren
Extraordinary
Human Nature
Obedient
Ordinary
Ordinary Extraordinary
Profitable
Quiet
Security
Tranquility
Advantages
Content
Vast
North
Respected
Supposed
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The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.
John Bachman
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Naturalist
Government
Army
Possibility
Regard
Statesmen
Thinking
Views
Frequently
However
North
Sent
Spoken
Unanimous
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I have lived my whole life in Delhi. I used to live in Rohini and then I moved to Munirka. I have seen north and south Delhi very closely. That's why my songs and raps have a Dilli waali feel to it. Delhi made me who I am today and I am proud of it.
Raftaar
/
Delhi
Moved
Life Today I Am
Life Today Me
Closely
North
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Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
Lebron James
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Basketball Player
Kids
Every Night
Growing Up
Lonely
Night
Police
Projects
Scared
Akron
Lived
Side
Nights
Hear
North
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Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.
Jim Drain
/
Artist
Army
Forever
Nice
Salvation
People Sometimes Find
Awesome
Buy
Closet
Finding
North
Super
Sweater
Trips
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I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.
Jane Green
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Author
Fourth
Gorgeous
Honeymoon
London
Married
Moved
Novel
Office
Overlooking
West
Carriage
Floor
North
Third
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I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
Donald Evans
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Morning
Administration
Development
Economic Development
Focused
Ghana
Needs
North Africa
Sub Saharan Africa
Tomorrow
Africa
North
Promote
Sub-Saharan
This Administration
Throughout
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The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap.
Robert Solow
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Economist
Europe
North America
States
Wide
Open
Cheap
Course
Early
Early Years
Lower
Main
Main Reason
North
Ratio
Spaces
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
Eddi Reader
/
Singer
Identity
Scottish
Flag
For Example
North
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
Ice T
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Rapper
Cat
Coast
East
Jersey
New Jersey
Rapper
South
Summit
West
West Coast
Assume
Family People New
Name
Central
Claiming
North
Town
Strictly
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Walmart has stores in almost every city in North America. When they go to same-day delivery, they don't have to build warehouses across North America like Amazon has to do. It is so much cheaper for Walmart to use existing stores as distribution centers.
John Layfield
/
Professional Wrestler
Cheaper
Delivery
Distribution
North America
Stores
Walmart
Build
Across
Centers
Existing
North
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It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.
Thurgood Marshall
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Discrimination
Elimination
Segregation
United States
Anything Else
Constantly
Manifested
North
Pressures
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This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
William Labov
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Professor
America
Continental
Dialect
Different
Grammar
North America
Vernacular
Vocabulary
More
African
Any
English
Distinct
North
Other
Standard
Shares
Spoken
Than
Ways
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I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.
Colm Toibin
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Novelist
Imaginative
Ireland
Might
Northern Ireland
Republic
Territory
North
Northern
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One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.
Isabel Allende
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Writer
American Culture
Characteristics
County
Guilt
Memories
Border
Time Memories Always
Cross
Move Forward
North
North American
Traditions
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From the Mississippi Mudflap to the Kentucky Waterfall, to the Tennessee Top Hat and the North Carolina Neckwarmer, nothing says freedom like a mullet blowing unfettered in the wind and I can't wait to restore it to its rightful place in the NASCAR garage.
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
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Racing Driver
Carolina
Garage
Mississippi
Nascar
North Carolina
Tennessee
Wind
Blowing
Wait
Hat
North
Restore
Rightful
Says
Top
Unfettered
Waterfall
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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
Robert E. Lee
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Military Officer
Bitter
Rights
Seeking
Vindictive
Pray
Against
Day People Never
Did
Believed
Cherished
Dearest
Fought
North
Pray For
Toward
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I hate the Chinese government. If you do not want to embrace North Korean defectors in your country, I understand. But we have a country where we can seek asylum. So please, let us freely pass through. Why are you doing your best to try and catch defectors?
Lee Hyeon-Seo
/
Chinese
Chinese Government
Embrace
North Korean
Please
Asylum
Catch
Freely
Let Us
Seek
North
Pass
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In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.
B.j. The Chicago Kid
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Singer-Songwriter
Compass
Degrees
East
Real Life
South
West
Life Your Me
Life Me Real
Hardest Part
Straight
North
Reach
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One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.
Ron Kind
/
U.s. Representative
Bipartisan
Caucus
Congress
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Needed
Resources
Draw
Work Together New
First Things
Member
North
River
Work Together
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People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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Columnist
Korea
Legitimacy
People
Questioning
Republic
Collapsed
Early 1990S
North
Overlook
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Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.
Ron Wyden
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United States Senator
Cost
Customers
Geography
Numbers
Oil
Pipeline
Producers
Simple
Canadian
Due
Effective
Sell
Limited
Mostly
North
North American
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In the summer, I love to go up north to a cottage and relax by the lake, swim, go canoeing... I also love riding my bike around Toronto, going to the farmer's market, cooking. That sounds simple, but it's a luxury you don't have when you're living in hotels.
Sarah Gadon
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Actress
Bike
Cooking
Luxury
Relax
Riding
Summer
Swim
Toronto
Cottage
Farmer
Hotels
Lake
Market
North
Sounds
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Whether it is Iraq, whether it is Yemen, whether it is Lebanon, whether it is Syria, I mean North Africa, you could go through the list of countries where Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism uses these proxies... to foment chaos in the Middle East.
Morgan Ortagus
/
Chaos
East
Iran
Lebanon
Middle
Middle East
North Africa
Syria
Terrorism
Yemen
Africa
Countries
Largest
List
North
Sponsor
Uses
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Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in North America. Records of turkey tail brewed as medicinal tea date from the early 15th century, during the Ming Dynasty in China.
Paul Stamets
/
Author
America
Asia
Century
China
Dynasty
Europe
Indigenous
Mushrooms
North America
Records
Tea
Used
Various
Years
Been
Date
Early
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Medicinal
North
Tail
Treat
Turkey
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A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to.
Clark Blaise
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Author
Adjustment
North America
Realizing
Indians
North
Profoundly
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
Barry Commoner
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Biologist
Teacher
Doctors
Engineers
Machines
North Pole
Views
Wealth
Above
Opposite
Teachers
Encompass
North
Pole
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I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,them. I loved learning a new skill. I will never look at a piece of wrought iron the same way now. I can now make semi-decent knife blades and candlesticks myself.
Rory Mccann
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Actor
Friends
Iron
Scotland
Loved
Classes
Master
Few
North
Piece
Skill
Took
Wrought
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I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
John Edwards
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Former U.s. Senator
Carolina
Defeated
Helm
North Carolina
Senator
Good Thing
Incumbent
Instead
Machine
North
Result
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I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet I still experience people telling me to 'go back' to China or North Korea or Japan. Like many immigrants, I have learned to brush off this racist insult.
Ted Lieu
/
United States Representative
Experience
Active
Air
Air Force
China
Force
House
House Of Representatives
Immigrants
Insult
Japan
North Korea
Representatives
Experience Me People
Me People Duty
Currently
Brush
Still
Off
Learned
North
Serve
Telling
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Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.
Kent Conrad
/
Former United States Senator
Jobs
Dakota
Dollars
Enormous
Force
Investment
Millions
North Dakota
Prairie
Wind
Anybody
Draw
Inexhaustible
Millions Of Dollars
North
Potential
Stood
Supply
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We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
Simon Winchester
/
Author
Trust
Extraordinary
Greed
Motto
Used
Anymore
Associate
Atlantic
Canadian
Either
Essentially
North
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As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.
Laurent Lamothe
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Former Prime Minister Of Haiti
Cooperation
Exploring
Foreign Affairs
Haiti
Links
Partners
Traditional
Work May Will
Affairs
Benefit
Cultural
Deepening
Minister
North
Scientific
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The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
William Henry Ashley
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American Politician
Broken
Covered
East
Mountain
Principal
Rough
Snow
West
Direction
Elevated
Generally
Manner
North
Travelled
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My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.
Michelle Pfeiffer
/
Actress
Depression
Kids
California
Children
Dakota
Five
Grandmother
North Dakota
Raised
Real
Sewing
Survivor
Truck
Back
Drove
Her
Herself
Machine
North
Pickup
She
Stock
Threw
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I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.
Richard Dean Anderson
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Film Actor
Corporate
North America
Projects
Water
Alliance
Bodies
Chief
Couple Years
Essentially
North
Robert
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
Ed Royce
/
United States Representative
Counterfeit
Currency
Diplomacy
Effort
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
North Korea
Target
Activities
Cigarettes
Efforts
North
Unites
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.
W. E. B. Du Bois
/
Historian
Administration
Race
States
Asserted
Beginning
Colonial
Washington
Distinct
Early
North
Race Problem
Safely
Section
Slaves
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I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
Rafer Johnson
/
Film Actor
Appearance
August
Hershey
Levels
Program
Qualifying
Recreation
Agencies
Competitions
Final
Local
Meets
North
North American
Pa
Park
Regional
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Ahmed Ben Bella
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Soldier
Manifest
Misery
Past
Poverty
Good Past Bad
Companies
Creates
Global
In The Past
Multinational
North
Serve
Spoke
Victims
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Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.
Bev Perdue
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Former Governor Of North Carolina
Believe
Carolina
Having Fun
North Carolina
Outcomes
Powerful
Significant
Life Education Believe
Chose
Fundamentally
Mission
North
Pathway
Wed
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