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One remembers a dietitian telling her at age 7 to start “counting your Cheerios.”

"Ringing doorbells, knocking on doors, alerting the neighbours, telling them to leave -- that's what the situation was like," he said.

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By Sony’s telling, Cox willfully refused to cut these alleged music thieves off from its service because it didn’t want to lose their business.

Visiting the school on Wednesday, the Health Minister Mike Nesbitt said he was very impressed and he had been struck by the parents telling him how their children were thriving.

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Perhaps no less important, this compendium captures both the end of the Pahlavi monarchy and the start of the theocracy that still governs Iran, granting viewers an often telling glimpse of Persian society in flux.

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

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