"This is my one and only chance to do something, " Ms. Brouwers said.

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The only chance of success, in my opinion, is faster economic growth than we have allowed ourselves to hope for recently.

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And he stood with me in 1991, when only my mother and my wife thought I had any chance of being elected.

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As my Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, says, our kids get only one chance at an education, and we need to get it right.

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To add to the problem, he had been employed by the Examiner for 30 years but not consecutively. (He left school at twelve, and worked to send his younger brothers through Stanford University.) So when the newspaper eliminated its entire circulation department, my dad was not only out of work, he was out of any chance to receive a pension.

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