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they are preoccupied with ending labor abuses by extending the anti-monopoly laws to the unions.
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For, unlike the Sioux and the Crows, the Aricaras are not great horsemen, nor are they aggressive like the savage Blackfeet.
After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??
Whatever they are talking about??
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.
And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
Whatever their faults, they are not hypocrites.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
to some degree they are being supplanted by a concept of national responsibility.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.
What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.
Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
they are the places where Persians live.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
they and preoccupied
The girls seemed to spend half their time tiptoeing in `` to see if Mike was all right '' and they were too preoccupied to cook, much less be secretaries.
Shortly afterwards, they became preoccupied with adventures in Italy and turned their attention away from England.
BDD is a disorder resulting in the sufferer becoming “ preoccupied with what they regard as defects in their bodies or faces .” While 2 % of people suffer from body dysmorphic disorder in the United States, 15 % of patients seeing a dermatologist and cosmetic surgeons have the disorder.
The other major powers of EuropeAustria and Prussiatook a much dimmer view of Belgian independence but they were disinclined to take any action, being preoccupied with the November Uprising in Poland.
Although Spain still claimed the region, the Spanish did not contest the treaty because they were preoccupied with their own colonies ' struggles for independence.
Although the band reached superstar status in the U. S., they failed to have much impact in the UK, which at the time was rather preoccupied with Britpop.
It is the assertion of such critics that the Fellows of the seminar are not all trained scholars, that their voting technique doesn't allow for nuance, that they are preoccupied with Q and the Gospel of Thomas but omit material in other sources such as the Gospel of the Hebrews, and that they rely excessively on the criterion of embarrassment.
Echoing the teaching of the Pythagorean Ocellus Lucanus, Campanella says that they are amazed that humans are preoccupied by the breeding of horses and dogs while neglecting their own.
In modern societies, young adults in their late teens and early 20's encounter a number of issues as they finish school and begin to hold full-time jobs and take on other responsibilities of adulthood ; and ' the young adult is usually preoccupied with self-growth in the context of society and relationships with others.
They are preoccupied with what they should do, and act on it.
Many of these literary fairies seem preoccupied with the character of the humans they encounter.
People with avoidant personality disorder are preoccupied with their own shortcomings and form relationships with others only if they believe they will not be rejected.
The extreme tension created by this monitoring may account for the hesitant speech and taciturnity of many people with avoidant personality disorder ; they are so preoccupied with monitoring themselves and others that producing fluent speech is difficult.
Again they were victims of bad timing, having reverted to ' no frills ' hard rock, while the Australian pop scene was preoccupied with progressive rock, soul and bubblegum pop.
The Númenóreans, as their power and knowledge grew throughout the course of the Second Age, became increasingly preoccupied with their mortality, the purpose of which they began to question.
While Otaru and the marionettes were preoccupied with Faust, Doctor Hess and a member of the Xian government had used the opportunity to scan Lorelei's brain for information, although they escape without revealing their true purpose.
When the bomber pilots, observers and fighter escort pilots were preoccupied with the destruction they were causing on the ground, Boelcke signaled for his pilots to attack.
The mathematicians might actually have reached Britain much earlierand much more comfortablythan they eventually did ; but in September 1939, when they went to the British embassy in Bucharest, Romania, they were brushed off by a preoccupied British diplomat.
It is easy to say in retrospect that Ariovistus should have thrown his entire force against the two lines of battle while the third ( the reserve ) was preoccupied, or that he should have attacked the four legions while they were divided from the two, but the tides of battle are never predictable, no matter what the odds.
But ancient philosophers and theologians already knew about the problem, which is why they were intensely preoccupied with the politics of the “ rule of law ” and its enforcement.
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If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;
His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.
The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.
From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.
But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.
With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.
Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.
I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??
It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.
Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.
It raced closer and they could see a woman with white hair, sitting astride an upright branch.
Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
they destroy such men with their damned tests.
The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.
He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.
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