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Next to her were two other women who have also been showing up with sporadic visits — driving from Aurora when their work schedules allow.

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There were sporadic events requiring either police or federal law-enforcement intervention, she wrote, but “nowhere near the type of incidents that cannot be handled by regular law enforcement forces.”

Hamas treated Israel’s boundaries as pink lines, to be tested with a few rockets here, “demonstrations” at the border fence there, sporadic terrorist attacks elsewhere.

Across the city in Aston, Rob Brough, 56, said his general waste collections were also sporadic, with locals managing through regular tip runs.

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Another factor in the Olympic rental market is Southern California’s uneven, sporadic enforcement of short-term rental regulations.

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