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Is it truly a recalcitrant mystery, yielding near-constant mediocrity at best?
Blind Tasting of Finger Lakes Pinot Noir Reveals Progress, Challenges 2009
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But the Obama attacks on the banks are muted and modest compared to Franklin Roosevelt's rhetoric; and, of course, Obama receives near-constant criticism from his own left wing for being too close to the banks -- too easy on them.
Robert Teitelman: Schwarzman's Olive Branch Robert Teitelman 2011
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It's left Washington in a near-constant state of gridlock.
Robert Reich: The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency Robert Reich 2011
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Is it truly a recalcitrant mystery, yielding near-constant mediocrity at best?
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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It's left Washington in a near-constant state of gridlock.
Robert Reich: The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency Robert Reich 2011
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He had to go once it was revealed that Adam Werritty – his former flatmate, self-styled "adviser", broker of unrecorded and undeclared meetings and near-constant companion around the globe – was funded by tycoons and companies with a direct and commercial interest in defence-related businesses.
Honour the pledge to clean up lobbying, Mr Senate | Observer editorial 2011
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They banter, of course — but on this first episode, at least, it feels less forced and less frequent than the near-constant chatter that now dominates NCIS.
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The interplay between the performers is lively and very sharp, from the easy, near-constant physical contact between the twins to the verbal deliveries that switch on a dime from singsongy to snappish.
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She suffered from near-constant stomachaches and broke down in tears almost every day.
In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom Ayelet Waldman 2011
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It's left Washington in a near-constant state of gridlock.
Robert Reich: The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency Robert Reich 2011
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