Another, for 3, 739 francs, was allegedly reimbursed four times in 1994 and once in 1995, using carbon copies of various colours and changing the date.

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Many of their former Lehman coworkers, virtually all of whom transitioned into jobs that are carbon copies of what they did before, now look at the pair as a curiosity.

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But in the truly totalitarian state in which she grew up, such articles would not have appeared at all, and circulating even blurred carbon copies would have risked the gulag.

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And just as a matter of policy, President Obama notes and President Clinton notes and others note that policies being espoused as an alternative direction for this country are carbon copies of the policies that helped precipitate the worst economic and financial crisis in our lifetimes.

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Secretaries made copies in triplicate, in case the project was uncovered, even using the typewriters and carbon paper of the Judenrat, the Jewish council set up by the Germans.

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