They get spots on the transition team, and a lot of those people have wound up as ambassadors.

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It was a wholly unnecessary, self-inflicted wound that resulted, for a time period, in people losing their jobs and not getting a paycheck.

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U.N. officials say the munitions wound or kill three people a day.

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She wound up in a special Maryland state pool for people who can't get insurance.

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With interest rates so low to have actual investment income to report, this surtax is like pouring salt in the wound of people who have finally made a profit in a brutal economy.

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Macdonald, a wound care specialist, says he was devastated to see people dying in Haiti after the quake from wounds that could have been easily treated.

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Yet that secret is only the beginning of a mystery so tightly wound and barbed with hurt and hurtful people that solving it becomes the only way to make the pain go away and the sun shine down on a place some call Paradise.

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Well, we're now at the last minute, and the American people are not going to have any patience for a politically self-inflicted wound to our economy.

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Though USAA put its network in place six years ago, before many people had studied how to make networks effective, it wound up with a winning program because its goal was clear, its employees had a lot to gain by participating, and it knew who its target audience was.

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After a sojourn in management consulting, he wound up at Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), working its global energy business, where he drew on his Schlumberger experience.

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