The deep, dark secret of human resources is that traditional job interviews don't work very well.

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But the deep, dark secret is that Lean In is more about being bold than it is about being female.

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The illness became our family's deep, dark secret.

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It was, instead, one of those relationships where one party (him) had a very deep, very dark secret that he hid for years and that, when it exploded to light, was such a seismic shock to my system that it took years to pick through the charred emotional landscape and tentatively begin to rebuild anew.

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Gonzales is hardly the only person to get in deep trouble over mishandling top secret information.

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Perhaps they will never tell us where the knife will fall -- but you can be sure that with cuts this deep, there is no secret plan or formula that will be able to protect the investments we need to help our economy grow.

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The officials stressed, however, that the Secret Service still has deep security concerns, given the continued tumult in the Mideast.

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That is our secret plan, our deep strategy.

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Annabel Pitcher has been nominated for her second novel, Ketchup Clouds, about a girl with a terrible secret who confesses all to a death row convict, while Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt follows Jenna, who has been left permanently scarred following a car crash that killed her best friend.

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