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As for Sal, Ken, Paul, and the rest of the left-behind Sterling Cooperites, I really hope we see them again, Sal in particular.
'Mad Men': What's Matthew Weiner cooking up for us next? | EW.com 2009
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"This is a lead from behind strategy for a left-behind America," cried hyperventilating California Republican Buck McKeon, chairman the House Armed Services Committee.
Medea Benjamin: Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire Medea Benjamin 2012
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What just happened in this election is that the culturally left-behind hit back.
Frank Schaeffer: "End Times" Election Results Biblical Republican Paranoia Frank Schaeffer 2010
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A continuing ethical dilemma in developing countries is what Caplan calls the "left-behind syndrome," when the people who helped test a treatment can never afford the resulting care.
U.S. Syphilis Experiments In Guatemala Mental Hospital In 1940s Revealed, U.S. Apologies To Nation AP 2010
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What just happened in this election is that the culturally left-behind hit back.
Frank Schaeffer: "End Times" Election Results Biblical Republican Paranoia Frank Schaeffer 2010
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Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, issued a statement saying, "This is a lead-from-behind strategy for a left-behind America."
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Operating in a moral gray area beyond the reach of any clear-cut legal jurisdiction, Zamora claims to have returned 54 children to left-behind parents.
The Snatchback 2009
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The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was drafted in 1980 to resolve custodial claims between what are known as the “taking parent” and the “left-behind parent.”
The Snatchback 2009
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In addition to pursuing the matter as a civil issue through the convention, a left-behind parent can press authorities to bring criminal charges against the taking parent.
The Snatchback 2009
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A continuing ethical dilemma in developing countries is what Caplan calls the "left-behind syndrome," when the people who helped test a treatment can never afford the resulting care.
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