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Forte, who is from Manhattan, has canvassed for Cuomo in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, an enclave of Russians, Ukrainians and other former Soviet countries.

Rand’s researchers, who canvass the three neighborhoods every two months, found that the shortfalls coincide with an increase in the percentage of people “sleeping rough,” without the protection of a vehicle or tent.

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In the 1970s, when Bunker moved to Maine, he canvassed old-timers for the names of the apples growing near his Palermo homestead.

Less widely known is that the magazine canvassed skeptics who cautioned that AGI was more likely to take 15 years.

The police have never canvassed this area in detail even though they had a confession.

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