The Democrats' fixation with health reform and the failure of the economy to perk up after all the stimulus spending handed a neat Just So story to Mr Obama's foes.

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The idea of natural selection itself began as a just-so story, more than two millennia before Darwin.

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And we thank you so much for sharing your story, so just hang on the line with us.

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What was put out by the press was just a story, like so many stories we see in the mainstream media these days.

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Telling this story induces so much backlash that I typically just tell an incentive story unless financial reform itself is the core issue we are discussing.

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I'm just pushing so that there will be a different story on my case.

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Just a small one-story building, so he lived elsewhere.

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There was another side to the story, just as dramatic and not so depressing.

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It's just an amazing story - how someone can get so, you know, myopically interested in something like this.

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But part of it is starting with awareness and making sure that people see the faces of these families -- through you, you know, so that it's not just some abstract story, but there's a real kid and real families behind it.

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So, we're going to just dive into the story that everybody is talking about.

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This is a short time series, just a week, so it is still possible that there will be more to the story.

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Just as the Post was the only media organ that would publish his story, so the Israeli government is the only government that can force the rest of the world to recognize that Abbas is not an ally.

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The story gets worse from there, because the cuts mentioned so far are just the first step in a two-step process.

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So you decided to just quote his 'I have a dream' line in the story and pretend he told it to you.

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So as I wrote the songs, the story unfolded, and I became just as much of a spectator as the other guys in the band and the people in the recording booth as we were recording this, and everyone learned the story at the same time.

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It's another kind of coming-of-age story, but it's a drama. (W)e just finished so maybe this winter it will be done.

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When people ask me about my story, I never get to fully say what I want to because there is just so much to it.

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