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They chose “declare” to give the executive necessary latitude for such emergencies.

While courts in Illinois and other states have held that public employee pensions are legally protected, governments have more latitude to make changes to medical benefits.

By tying these small brightness changes to specific locations on the planet and analyzing them in multiple colors, scientists can reconstruct temperatures across latitude, longitude, and altitude.

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These give the commander in chief wide latitude over war powers, and both Democratic and Republican presidents have been happy to retain that power.

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The fossils uncovered in this study date back about 200 million years to the end of the Triassic Period, a time when what is now the United Kingdom was located in warmer, tropical latitudes.

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

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