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They had found a latent palm print on her bunk bed.

Her case studies show how civil society campaigns have tackled the dependence of corporations on people and activated the latent power of people.

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I chalk some of this up to growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, at the tail end of the Cold War, when rooting for Shannon Miller over Svetlana Boginskaya felt like a healthy, nonviolent outlet for my latent patriotic fervor.

Eventually, those late-night meetings with men who treat him with welcome and rather unexpected tenderness unearth latent feelings Max doesn’t know what to do with.

Franz and Fiala bring out this reality’s latent horrors through a series of suspense-building strategies.

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

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