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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
Natasha Trethewey
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Poet
Regional
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
Yair Lapid
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Former Finance Minister Of Israel
Establishment
Moving
Needs
Palestinian
States
Strategy
Alongside
Arab
Arrangement
Full
Master
Enable
Palestinian State
Regional
Relations
Toward
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
M. C. Gainey
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Actor
Car
Chekhov
Theater
Wanted
Bank
Bust
Rob
Jump
Realized
Regional
Repertory
Screaming
Shakespeare
Studying
Tear
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I always kind of dreamed locally - I never really ever dream that I would be south of the border; I dreamed about being a theatre star in Toronto, and maybe I'd do Stratford and regional stuff. I always thought it would be a slow growth.
Eric Mccormack
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Actor
Slow Growth
Toronto
Border
Dreamed
Locally
Slow
Regional
Stratford
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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
John Oates
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Guitarist
Boundaries
Country
Pop Music
Spread
Teenage
Youth
Youth Culture
American
Gospel
Bandstand
Clark
Music Culture World
Entire
Entire World
Eventually
Regional
Throughout
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
Hans Blix
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Swedish Politician
Borders
East
Etc
Middle East
Pakistan
Thinking
Together
Africa
Blown
Fears
Peninsula
Regional
Rightly
Seriously
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I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
Kevin Spacey
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Actor
Good Experience Enough
Center
Experience Good Face
Go Away
Regional
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For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.
Esther Mcvey
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Lazy
Treatment
Accent
Attitudes
Prevail
Regional
Stereotyping
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A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
Gary Miller
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U.s. Representative
Environmental
Access
Competition
Crude
Crude Oil
Demand
Differences
Factors
Gasoline
Oil
States
Supplies
Taxes
United States
Variety
Contribute
Include
Price
Regional
Worldwide
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Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.
Fiona Hill
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Chechnya
Destroyed
Extended Family
Periods
Soviet
Clan
Networks
Essentially
Extended
Governed
Imperial
Regional
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I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the 'old guard' of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.
Johnny Iuzzini
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Cuisine
Differences
Different Ways
Ingredients
Pioneering
Guard
Regional
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We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won't be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
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Continental
Nice Things
Soothing
Sufficient
Ear
Internal
Practical
Regional
Threats
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After securing security, we can be confident that our achievements will be safeguarded and also have the capacity to construct infrastructure such as regional railways, airports, and highways that will facilitate trade and help us to integrate faster.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
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Facilitate
Faster
Highways
Infrastructure
Achievements
Airport
Construct
Integrate
Railways
Regional
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Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.
Kevin Hassett
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Economic Growth
Global Economy
Long Term
Participation
Prosperity
Trading
Absolute
Agreements
Bilateral
Ingredient
Multilateral
Prerequisite
Recipe
Regional
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I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
George Voinovich
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Former United States Senator
Bully
Children
Destruction
Everyday
Grandchildren
Mass
Mass Destruction
Weapons
Would Be
Allowed
Bullies
Regional
Send
Threaten
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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Hamid Karzai
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President Of Afghanistan
War
Believe
Cooperation
International
International Cooperation
Political
Sincere
Terror
Work Believe Together
War Work Together
Won
Regional
Stake
Work Together
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
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King Of Bahrain
Minorities
Sensitive
Jewish
Ambassador
Context
Establishing
For Example
Guarantee
Regional
Uk
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Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.
Hassanal Bolkiah
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Sultan Of Brunei
Asean
Association
Cooperation
Covering
Crisis
Financial
Financial Crisis
Numbers
Past
Strain
Years
Although
Area
Number
Obviously
Recently
Regional
Strides
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Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher
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Former United States Representative
Atmosphere
Diplomacy
Distrust
Instability
National Security
Preemption
Strategy
Creates
However
Preemptive
Preserve
Regional
Tactic
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Tribeca Film Festival Doha will be both an industry festival and an audience festival, not just an event for insiders. Community outreach will be a major part of what we're doing. We'll put filmmakers in touch with local, regional, and international audiences.
Craig Hatkoff
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Outreach
Event
Festival
Film Festival
Major Part
Regional
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I had been getting queries from regional filmmakers to do a movie based on my work. But I did not want my work and mission - to create awareness on menstrual hygiene - to be restricted to only a part of the country. In fact, I wanted to do the movie in Hollywood.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
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Hygiene
Mission
Regional
Restricted
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It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.
Steph Mcgovern
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Annoying
Ignorance
Me Will Find
Accent
Indeed
Regional
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The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but also at the international level.
John Ralston Saul
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Author
Disappearance
Increase
Mania
International Level
Merger
Regional
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When my office asked the regional HHS office to participate in an enrollment event - something they routinely have done for previous ACA and Medicare Part D enrollment - they said no. They were prohibited from doing so - under orders from the Trump Administration.
Jan Schakowsky
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U.s. Representative
Administration
Enrollment
Event
Orders
Participate
Previous
Prohibited
Regional
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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
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Film Actor
Appearance
August
Hershey
Levels
Program
Qualifying
Recreation
Agencies
Competitions
Final
Local
Meets
North
North American
Pa
Park
Regional
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The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.
Kate Christensen
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Novelist
Diet
Additives
Consumption
Meat
Poultry
Refined
Chefs
Foods
Grains
Increasing
Originated
Processed
Regional
Visionary
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Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.
John Murray
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Writer
Boards
County
Developers
Upper Hand
Basis
Front
Hand
Issue
Regional
Suffer
Upper
Zoning
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In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Cold War
Communist
Conflict
Enlisted
Powder
Arab
War World Political
War Political World
Governments
Regional
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Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
Rebecca Mackinnon
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Blogger
Chinese
Online
Social Media
Topics
Village
Authorities
Expose
Official
Regional
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I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
Anthony Burgess
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Writer
Manchester
Someday
Abroad
Naturally
Gravitate
Suppose
Regional
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But understanding the complexities of the ramen menu is an equally tricky feat for a foreigner. Both regional and stylistic variations apply to each menu. Add to that the spin that each particular ramen chef puts on his dish, and you rarely know what you are going to get.
Rachel Khoo
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Chef
Tricky
Apply
Complexities
Dish
Equally
Feat
Foreigner
Menu
Puts
Regional
Spin
Stylistic
Variations
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West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in the elite of Caribbean skilled workers, earning millions of dollars after, let's say, a five-year period of regional representation.
Hilary Beckles
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Caribbean
Earning
Representation
Skilled Workers
Underpaid
Workers
Elite
Five-Year
Millions Of Dollars
Regional
Skilled
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A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
Natasha Trethewey
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Poet
Identity
National Identity
Relation
Life History Me
Larger
Outward
Poem
Regional
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Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
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Climate
Materials
Settings
Topography
Architectural
Buildings
Languages
Curiously
Locations
Regional
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Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.
Jose Angel Gurria
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Economist
Better Future
Deeper
Higher Education
Labour
Participation
Stronger
Thrive
Education Future Better
African
Ensuring
Fairer
Fosters
Regional
Regulatory
Require
Small Businesses
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My experience in Ethiopia helped shape my vision for WHO. We need to promote evidence-based decision-making and awareness. Specifically, we need to advocate for research and development, champion and support global and regional coalitions, and strengthen national capacity.
Tedros Adhanom
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Decision Making
Ethiopia
Advocate
Coalition
Promote
Regional
Specifically
Strengthen
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When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I'm middle-aged; it's fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.
Tom Hollander
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Actor
Middle Aged
Posh
Profession
Scottish
Visible
Welsh
Regional
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When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.
Rakim
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Rapper
Ashes
Conscious
Garbage
Hip Hop
Mainstream
Spit
Lyrics
Rebuild
Regional
Styles
Tracks
Underground
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We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
Stephen Harper
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Prime Minister Of Canada
Government
Corporate
Country
Determine
Economic Development
Engaged
Federal Government
Range
Succeed
Trying
Business Government Will
Business Government Country
Increasingly
Industries
Programs
Regional
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Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
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Judge
China
Defense
Deterrence
Integrity
Minimum
Philippines
Retaliation
Spending
Sufficient
Territorial
Allow
Capabilities
State
Inflict
Match
Obviously
Resist
Regional
Undermine
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We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
John Negroponte
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United States Ambassador To The Philippines
Establishment
Fighting
Military
Military Training
Motivation
Bolster
Center
Forces
Improve
Primary
Regional
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In many parts of Minnesota outside of the big metro areas, and the college towns, and the regional centers like Duluth or Rochester, the state has a lot of people who work incredibly hard. I think that what happened is that Trump was able to connect with that sense of real concern.
Tina Smith
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Concern
Metro
Minnesota
Rochester
Towns
Work People Real
Centers
Regional
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Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport system maximising more environmentally friendly modes of transport such as rail linked more effectively to Europe.
John Mcdonnell
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Balanced
Expansion
Friendly
Integrated
Linked
Planning
Rail
Transport
Airport
Economies
Environmentally
Modes
Regional
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In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.
Tim O'brien
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Novelist
Austin
Minnesota
Moved
Splendid
Summer
Across
Life Family Age
Spot
Insurance
Life Insurance
Manager
Perfectly
Regional
Rural
Seemed
Several
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Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.
Tariq Ramadan
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Writer
Conflict
Levels
Mistrust
Phenomenon
Political
Profound
Rhetoric
Tension
International Level
Local
Muslim
Pointed
Regional
Relations
Synonymous
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-Moon
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Diplomat
Future
Government
Society
Branches
Building
Cities
Civil Society
Dialogue
Engagement
Including
Local Government
Marginalized
Poor
Private Sector
Among
Open
Sustainable
Local
National
Private
Regional
Sector
Stakeholders
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
Martin Filler
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Government
Centre
Cutting
Modern
Museums
Prototype
Support
Architectural
French
Costing
Richard
Museum
Popular
Planned
Regional
Rogers
Several
Solved
Spectacle
Wound
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If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: He has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.
Greg Grandin
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Addiction
Arms
Arms Race
Conflict
Iranian
Islam
Legacy
Middle East
Rise
Henry
Regional
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I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.
Mithun Chakraborty
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Film Actor
Movie
Acting
Advent
Bengali
Divided
Hindi
India
Programmes
Track
Channel
Channels
Due
Earlier
Film World
Operating
Regional
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My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of - it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once 'Hairspray' happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.
Andrew Rannells
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Actor
Hairspray
Scrap
Clicked
Early Years
Regional
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