• Overall, the private sector added 71, 000 jobs, while government employment fell largely because Uncle Sam no longer needed the services of 143, 000 temporary census workers.

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  • This was doubly humiliating, not just for me but also for my parents, because Uncle Simon's wife, Marie, had pulled strings to get me into prestigious Congregation Shearith Israel, the majestic Spanish and Portuguese synagogue at 70th Street and Central Park West.

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  • Kim has had a hard time exercising recently because her uncle, 90, passed away, and the grieving process has been difficult.

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  • And Erick had to tell Albert that Roque was his uncle, because the engineer was supposed to be his new dad any minute.

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  • Locals called him Uncle Gocha, because he organized dances at the House of Culture in the summer, and volunteered at the school, wiring lighting and sound for concerts.

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  • Because they don't cost Uncle Sam much revenue, experts say the bills could move quickly.

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  • Defenders of Arizona's harsh new anti-immigration law are going on the offensive: They are fanning out on TV, radio talk shows and newspaper columns arguing that there is nothing nefarious about this law because all it does is help Uncle Sam enforce its existing laws.

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  • These two entities achieved their monstrous size and malignant and distorting influence precisely because they had the implicit guarantee of Uncle Sam and were exempt even from normal, basic reporting requirements to the SEC.

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  • According to the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration, 15.4 million taxpayers may unexpectedly owe Uncle Sam money for tax year 2009 because in connection with the Making Work Pay Credit, enacted as part of last year's stimulus bill, Congress ordered withholding rates reduced.

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  • Ghalib also visited an uncle whose leg had been amputated during the war because of diabetes.

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  • Mitchell said Alaskans refer to Stevens as "Uncle Ted, " but it's not because they find him warm and cuddly.

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  • And my uncle brought me to see him, and I didn't have the kind of money that people had to invest, and my uncle said, I think you should be with this man because this man never loses, you know, any money.

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  • "The positive sentiment from 'Gangnam Style' has attracted investors just because of the fact that the company is owned by Psy's father and uncle, " Lee Sun-tae, a researcher at NH Investment and Securities, recently told Reuters.

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  • "I would suspect that it's because of his position as a sort of an avuncular authority figure, your old Uncle Ted, who's sort of a gruff guy who cares about you, but he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve about it, " Mitchell said.

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  • My Uncle was mildly embarrassed by the entire episode, but should not be, because the techniques used to propagate these scams have become so advanced that the educated and computer savvy among us are not immune.

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  • Because Social Security benefits are keyed to CPI, this has resulted in a substantial savings for Uncle Sam.

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  • Saunders said he believed that in contrast to Beatrix, Britain's Queen Elizabeth would never abdicate, because of the 1, 000 years of history behind her, and the trauma of her uncle, King Edward VIII's abdication.

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  • He has grown a beard because he doesn't want to be recognized, and has surrounded himself with photos of Reeva Steenkamp, his uncle says.

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