The institution of monarchy may be irrational, Mantel added, but those outside don't have to forget their principles as they observe the "entertainment" the royals provide.

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Our business model was based on job advertising, and for those who remember (but would rather forget), it was much harder to sell job ads in the fall of 2008 compared to the spring of 2008, when we launched a well-received beta.

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But those working to improve conditions say it is easy to forget the dire conditions Haiti was facing in January 2010.

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Not bad, but lest we forget, Dreiling grew rich for removing unease from the lives of those not rich.

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And don't forget some of those areas are not only seeing slackening demand, but this often happens when housing gets really hot - a lot of builders rushed in to take advantage, so now there's an oversupply depressing prices even further.

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Those who eat these globe-trotting imports sometimes forget that they are consuming not just the food but the environmental conditions in which the food was grown, and the working conditions of those who picked and packed the produce.

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