One reason is that the country's banks were relatively unexposed to the US sub-prime mortgage market.

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The rigorous international inspection procedures required under the convention might discover other non-conventional material that Israel would prefer to keep unexposed.

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For parents who want their children to grow up relatively unexposed to doubt, Darwin or indecent lunchroom chatter, home-schooling offers hope.

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The practical effect, they say, is that alleged wrongdoing would go unexposed.

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That meant yanking four inches of unexposed film out from the 35mm roll and trimming it to shape each time you loaded the camera.

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The endorsement of one of the most competitive owners in the business helped propel her to early favorite in the markets, leaving Talent relatively unexposed.

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The public will want to know how the abuse was allowed to continue unexposed for so long, when many of the families involved were under the observation of social services.

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Israel's banking sector is largely unexposed to European debt.

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Last year Joe Munyaneza, an entomologist at the Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory in Washington state, found that tubers from plants exposed to these insects showed typical zebra-chip symptoms, while those from unexposed plants had none.

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