Where once government-run schools were seen as a means to provide the children of indigent families with education and vocational training (as well as to assimilate immigrant families), such tax-funded schools soon became the norm, with many people unable to remember or imagine alternatives.

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The reader may be entertained, but can also lose faith in the seriousness of the work, and in most cases will find it hard to assimilate it into his own world, as one does with classic works.

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However, Weiner has overwhelmingly demonstrated an innate ability to assimilate all of the pertinent information on this topic and has successfully collaborated with Manfred on a program that is destined to change the landscape of testing throughout sports.

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Canada's current philosophical approach is a far cry from the 1969 attempt by Pierre Trudeau, another former prime minister, to assimilate the country's aboriginals by abolishing separate Indian status and, with it, any right to special treatment by the state.

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