Her colleagues would take photographs, and relatives of the missing would come to her office to leaf through the portfolio in the hope, or fear, of finding them.

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Who can possibly remain a closed book, when others try to open it and leaf through?

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But these studies have, for years, given politicians enough of a fig leaf to sneak what are effectively outright corporate subsidies through the courts without running afoul of the gift clause.

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Through CARWINGS, Nissan LEAF drivers are able to use mobile smart phones to turn on air conditioning and set charging functions remotely, even when the vehicle is powered down.

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Now the workers in Thailand can raise loans through Kiva to purchase the materials, and Yellow Leaf Hammocks will sell the hammocks for them and pay them for the continued work.

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Through November, Nissan Leaf sales in the United States were 8, 720, according to AutoData Corp.

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But leaf through the tomes of some of the regulators who lived through the crisis, and you start to wonder whether our tax-dodging heroes might be out of jobs today if the public hadn't fronted a bailout.

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