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And Netanyahu was forced to accept the prospect of a Palestinian state only a few days after a fire-and-brimstone speech at the United Nations rejecting any such thing.

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There, American health inspectors typically forced aspiring braceros to strip naked before subjecting them to blood tests, X-rays, rectal exams and a final dusting of their bodies and clothes with DDT.

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Actor John Goodman has officially sold his longtime home in New Orleans—but was forced to cut close to $1.5 million from his original asking price to secure a buyer.

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Ms Newman was forced to post a video on Facebook to show that she was a real person, and separate her business from the scam.

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Their loss was a "systematic and deliberate" aspect of the oppression of the San and Khoekhoe peoples who were forced into servitude, he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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