In a session this summer in the writers room, where a bookcase was lined with titles like "American Sniper, " the staff ignored a bowl of baby carrots and sucked lollipops instead. (They pilfer candy from the better-stocked Fox sitcom "New Girl, " whose writers work next door).

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The idea for the school sprang in 1987 from three MIT visionaries who scraped together enough money to begin a summer session the next year.

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In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.

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Wall Street's been playing a summer-long session of Hold 'Em.

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He also points out that Congress is only in session a limited number of days this summer.

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And the Home Affairs Committee is seeking to organise a further session on UK border controls in the summer of 2011 - but it is not confirmed as yet.

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Mrs Merkel has hurried both packages onto the floor of parliament for a vote on June 29th, Germany's last legislative session before the summer break.

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