Professional Documents
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1. Fifty years later, some of the tanks and field guns that survived the momentous
battle are lined up, freshly painted, in the parking lot at the war museum.
4. Motorists are offered a guide to the 10 most popular routes likely to be taken by
caravan enthusiasts this summer.
6. For more than a decade, Tony Blair dominated the nation's political landscape
as prime minister, the most electorally successful leader of the UK Labour party
since the Second World War.
8. Women who want to make the break back into scientific research should try
emphasizing their academic age rather than their chronological age.
9. The CIA and FBI work at stopping threats before they happen, while the Energy
Department focuses on responding to actual emergencies.
10. Whenever challenged with these lies we will aggressively push back with the
truth.
12. It's critical to remove the dramatic effect the Depression had on this
generation.
13. Because France does not collect official information by religion, it is hard to
say whether the assumption is accurate.
14. Financial markets can value a stock more accurately than any individual
expert.
15. Many South Africans sympathise with the strikers mainly because the
economy seems to be doing better than ever.
17. Instead of being a source of pleasure, the prospect of living longer has become
a source of anxiety to many people without adequate pension savings.
20. Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and
intelligence.
23. Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader — not the fact that
it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
24. Students of politics have been interested in many aspects of ethics in public
service.
25. To measure Earth's gravity the probe will use GPS devices to plot its exact
position and a gradiometer, a machine that can detect fluctuations of a million
millionth in Earth's gravity.