Choksi pressed the point, describing a female employee who had recently talked to her about taking a short maternity leave because she feared that she would lose her job if she stayed out longer.

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Several commentators have point out the problems with describing the global economic landscape as a contest.

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He made a point, in his public pronouncements, of describing Israel as the Jewish state, but there is plainly no interest on the American side in seeing this issue of nomenclature become a big obstacle between Israelis and Palestinians.

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But before my neighbors and my wife call their respective lawyers, I should point out that the situation I'm describing is a slice of virtual life from the world's No. 1 PC game, The Sims, by virtuoso designer Will Wright.

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Edwards, who was born in South Carolina, has also made a point of stressing his modest roots, often describing himself as the son of a textile mill worker and noting that he was the first one in his family to go to college.

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At one point, Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith was describing an interview that Fox had conducted with a doctor inside Massachusetts General Hospital who told of some gruesome injuries.

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One more point: Be careful of the language that you use when describing your testing process.

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Describing the scene, witnesses said the injured were watching from a dangerous vantage point.

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