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Yesterday, CBO released acost estimate ofH.R. 1106, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, as introduced on February 23, 2008.
Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Helping Families Save Their Homes Act 2009
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One can always use the stick of grades to force students to spend more time studying/learning/etc.. but this comes at acost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Teaching to Different Learning Styles in Law School 2009
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I wood nermally acost JD and do a bit ob belayborin about the hed, but JD is nawt bloo so I yam nawt certain iffen him/her is bigger den me an I relies hebbily on the intimidayshun factor as axual fisicality is unrefyned.
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Again, that might be a reasonable privacy cost, given the harms that teenage sex can cause, but we should consider it as acost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Policy Arguments Generally, and in Torts Cases in Particular: 2009
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Conservatives understand that New "Deals" (that seems to be what Leftists prefer to call the Constitution -- a "deal") and Big Sugar Daddies and Great Socialist plans and all other Utopian fantasies always introduce perverse incentives and absurd unintended consequences into people's lives that always create acost far greater than the supposed benefits.
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We need more photos of dogs urinating and strange street scenes where acost single men and abuse them because they are wearing shorts.
I get email. Ann Althouse 2008
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I can indulge in our famously lonely profession for only a few hours a day, then I have to go acost people on the street to talk to.
A Question for Introverts Misque Writer 2008
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The Red Knives too recognise the expression Teyma, used by the Esquimaux when they acost strangers in a friendly manner, as similarly pronounced by Augustus and those of his race who frequent the mouth of the Copper-Mine River.
The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816
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Icepilot: “Now perhaps that change is the right and proper thing to do, but there’s still acost.”
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Acadie (a'ka'de '), accession (ak-sesh'un), coming into possession of. acord (a-kord'), blend. acost (a'kost '), approach; speak to. acumulate (a-ku'mu-lat), collect; store up. acuracy (ak'u-ra-si), exactness. acurately (ak'u-rat-li), precisely. acquiescence (ak'wi-es'ens), a yielding or agreeing.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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