But sometimes this can become displacement activity to avoid tackling that most tricky and most vital of political tasks - earning the right to be heard.

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However one confronts the issue of displacement, it is real and can be significant in the case of mega-events.

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While Environmental Protection Agency clean air regulations such as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) can explain some of the future expected displacement of coal by natural gas, shale gas economics is a significant reason for the displacement.

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These children have been exposed to much pain, uncertainty, fear, displacement -- they really need the stability and normalcy that child-friendly spaces can offer.

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Exile and displacement, whether within one's homeland, or outside, may be painful, but it can also inspire fine literature.

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Private charity can be more effective than government largesse, and as our cover story in this issue exhibits, the displacement is at times a necessity.

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