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A novelist with a sharp social conscience, whether setting her fiction in the present or past, Groff burrows under the bedrock of culture to explore the moral rot underneath.

The estimates will serve as the bedrock of a revised state budget plan the governor presents to the Democratic-led legislature next month.

Tom adds: "Iron ore is the bedrock of this town. Every single person in this town has some connection to it."

In the original executive order, Trump had accused the firm of playing "an outsized role in undermining the judicial process and in the destruction of bedrock American principles".

He hailed "the wonder of a country built on the bedrock of three peoples: indigenous, French and British".