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#1 The United States Senate rejected the appointment of Judge Robert Bork to be the next Supreme Court justice by a vote of forty-two in favor and fifty-eight against. He was one of the most qualified nominees in American history.
#2 Robert Bork was a highly qualified Supreme Court justice, but his conservative ideology was seen as too much of a risk.
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#1 We were made to crave and want God, but Satan wants to lure us away from God with something else. He knows where we are weak.
#2 The devil took Jesus to the holy city, Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. He offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world if He would bow down to the god of materialism. But Jesus refused, and the devil left him.
#3 The more we are saturated with God's truth, the more we become resistant...
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#1 The Honda Accord was left stranded on the freeway shoulder early Monday morning. Its emergency lights were still flashing, but no one stopped to help. It was easy to find reasons not to get involved in someone else's problems.
#2 The driver had been swallowed into a morass. People who loved her had already spent hours making panicky, desperate, and heartsick phone...
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#1 I was born on a Monday in November 1966, in Marie Claire Beauvais, France, to Axel Jean-Pierre and Marie-Claire. I never took my father's last name, and I ended up with my mother's maiden name.
#2 I was a Peenie Greet, or skinny twig, as my brother Maurice referred to me. I was painfully skinny, and I hated my protruding wings on my back. I was never given a middle...
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Book Preview: #1 The first thing that greets you when you get to the office on Monday morning is a desk covered in things, things, and more things! Piles of documents, random paper clips, unopened letters delivered who-knows-when, and a laptop plastered with sticky-note reminders.
#2 Clutter is bad for business as well as individual productivity. It can be solved by tidying up.
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#1 The city of Durham, North Carolina, was beginning to stir to a new work week on this Monday morning. High-intensity lights still illuminated nearly deserted downtown streets. The sweet, pungent aroma that always hovered in the air was stronger than usual.
#2 One of Durham's most prosperous northern suburbs, Fox Drive, was the scene of a shooting. A shrill, piercing...
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#1 I phoned the social services on Monday and was told that they had an advertisement about fostering Mary. They sent me a single photocopied A4 sheet with pictures of smiling children, and no details about what was actually involved.
#2 I was eventually approved to foster, but it took a long process. I was told to describe in fifty words why I wanted to foster, and...
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#1 The world economy is broken. Underlying fissures created by subprime mortgage losses have cracked open, with a devastating effect on the global financial system.
#2 The investment committee is the decision-making body made up of the partners as voting members and the rest of the Firm as observers and commentators. They meet every Monday at 10 a. m. Eastern Time.
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#1 Phoenix was a failure as an insurance salesman. He could not even afford the discounted rates at the local community college, Brookline. He had to tell his son that they could not afford to send him to college.
#2 Phoenix was smoking a cigarette outside when he was approached by a man named Champ Dailey, who offered to help him. Phoenix went to his office on Monday, where he was...
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#1 I wanted my friends to love my house and be impressed with it, so I prepared the most fattening thing I could think of: jalapeño corn casserole. I loved how when I was with food, time slowed for a few moments and life felt less full of stress.
#2 I was always prepared to receive guests, even though I didn't feel ready. I had gained fifty pounds since my wedding several...
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Get the Summary of Jon Gordon's The Energy Bus in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. This is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big product launch coming in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and...
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#1 George Washington was the president of a company that was developing the navigability of the Potomac River. He was offered valuable shares in the company for himself and his heirs, but he only accepted if he could give whatever dividends that came his way to charities.
#2 The United States was formed in 1776, but was not fully formed until 1789. Until then, the thirteen former British colonies were held uneasily together by the Articles of Confederation....
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#1 Ho-ing is the process of becoming sexually free, and it can be challenging. You run the risk of being slut-shamed when you're a woman who's sexually free, because that's just how our society works.
#2 The choice was simple for me: quit the show and save my sanity, or buck the hell up and find new ways to cope. I was called every name under the sun, and eventually...
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Book Preview: #1 I was born on a Monday in Chicago during the Great Blizzard of 1946. My mother took in ironing while I waited on the stoop of our rooming house for the iceman to give me slivers of ice wrapped in brown paper. I would slip one in my pocket for my baby sister.
#2 I was completely smitten by the book. I loved to read, and the things I read of produced new yearnings....
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#1 On Monday, December 7, 2009, Debbie Caldwell went to visit her friend and neighbor Susan Powell, who was usually prompt and conscientious with the children she took care of. However, when no one answered the door, Debbie phoned the names of the children's emergency contacts.
#2 On March 6, Terri Powell, Josh's mother, heard the message from his day care provider,...
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#1 I was a quotation-board boy in a stock-brokerage office when I was 14. I was good at mental arithmetic, and I enjoyed posting the numbers on the big board in the customers' room. I was interested in the behavior of prices, and I kept a record of my observations.
#2 I first began to pay attention to the message of the tape when I was 14. I would write down the stock...
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#1 We must understand the elements that make up a liberal democracy, as they are not always used in the same way. When talking about politics, liberalism is often used to describe a person's political views, but when talking about basic values, a liberal is somebody who is committed to them.
#2 Democracy is often defined as a system with free, fair, and competitive elections,...
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Book Preview: # I had responded to an advertisement for a live-in companion. I had lived on a tropical island for two years, and I wanted to live on an island. I had been working in the banking industry, and I needed to try an existence that released me from the Monday to Friday, nine to five grind.
#2 I had a great adventure, traveling on various buses and trains. I eventually landed...
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#1 The fire in Venice happened on Monday evening, January 29, 1996. Archimede Seguso, an 86-year-old man who lived in Ca' Capello, a sixteenth-century house in the heart of Venice, waited patiently at the dinner table before joining his wife in the living room to lower the curtains.
#2 The Seguso family had been glassmakers since the 14th century. Archimede Seguso was...
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#1 On January 23, 1978, a murder was committed in Sacramento that was far beyond the ordinary murder, in terms of the violence done to the victim. The victim was David Wallin, 24, a laundry-truck driver, who had returned home after work with his 22-year-old wife, Terry, who was three months pregnant. The police said they could not determine a motive.
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