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  • Likelier explanations of the decrease in suicide attacks are, simply, that the weather is now too hot, or that Islamist insurgents may be storing up an especially violent campaign for the referendum period, just as they did for the weeks in April after the founding of the government.

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  • The Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium was named after the founding president of Ivory Coast.

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  • But they were every bit as good as the private sector in terms of choice and quality - if not far better, particularly after the 1944 Education Act and the founding of the NHS, which offered services and opportunities transformed from the pre-war years within a post-war economy and society governed by rationing, funding constraints, and pervasive low skills and aspirations.

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  • Share-trading systems were also clogged up as investors piled in after a holiday to mark the founding of the People's Republic of China.

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  • It also has a unique claim to American patriotism, being the beverage most enjoyed by the Founding Fathers (who surely raised a glass after finally signing of the Declaration of Independence).

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  • Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney issued the warning in a letter to Grover Norquist, founding chairman of the Islamic Institute, after Norquist publicly accused Gaffney of 'racism and bigotry' and banished him from a weekly strategy group.

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  • "We were called the crazies, " recalls JDRF founding member Carol Lurie, jolted into action after the diagnosis of her 10-year-old son. (He's now a parent of a diabetic daughter.) The nonprofit stages a Children's Congress every other year, bringing 150 afflicted kids from around the country to Washington to generate not-so-subtle pressure.

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  • After leaving office, his accomplishments included founding the University of Virginia and designing UVA buildings in Charlottesville, as well as Virginia's state capitol building in Richmond.

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  • President Tudjman was still enjoying widespread popularity as the founding father of Croatian independence, and after 1995 the HDZ was also benefiting from Croatia's success in recapturing areas of the country previously controlled by Serb forces.

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  • Named after Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE, he is buried in a shrine next to the opulent mosque.

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  • It was just a few years after the liberation of the camps that David Ben-Gurion declared the founding of the Jewish State of Israel.

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  • After co-founding the anti-war Respect Party, he won the seat of Bethnal Green and Bow at the 2005 general election.

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  • Fifty-eight years after its founding, Playboy is back to being what it started as: the private property of one Hugh M.

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  • Thirty years after its birth, the organization will at long last have fulfilled the dream of its founding fathers -- a strategic alliance that encompasses all of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, which joined two years ago.

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  • He raised millions in capital to aid in the founding of The Home Depot in 1978, and he left that company's board after 30 years in 2010 and joined Geeknet the same year.

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  • "Every day our viability is questioned, " says Kunze, 39, who joined the San Francisco-based firm in 1998, a year after its founding, following a 13-year tour of duty at Adobe.

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  • Finally, after years these United States of America are finally headed in the correct direction and returning to the freedoms and values our founding fathers fought for in their rebellion against the lobster backs of King George in 1776.

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  • It was at this 16th Century estate, in 1969, that Brian Jones, guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones, was discovered floating face down in his pool, a month after band mates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had booted him from the band.

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  • Mr. Emanuel first gained fame in the mid-1990s after he, along with three other agents, shocked Hollywood by founding Endeavor overnight and turned it into one of the city's largest, most powerful agencies with a roster of clients that now includes Mark Wahlberg, Martin Scorsese, Ben Stiller, Matt Damon, Tina Fey and Denzel Washington.

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