"For us, building your tree usually starts with census records and birth and marriage and death, and those are the core of doing your family history, " Godfrey said.
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The losers, on the other hand, pushed for tax increases or had a history of doing so.
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Apple certainly has the cash to do such a deal, but they have zero history of doing acquisitions of this size.
At grade E, however, media studies candidates were considered to be less impressive than those doing English, with history candidates falling somewhere in between.
And because I've had a history of doing comics on nonfiction topics, I got a lot of encouragement from people to do a comic about my experiences.
Steve-O, best known for his work on the MTV show Jackass, has a history of doing stunts bordering on the obscene or inappropriate in front of the camera.
"I think we have a really solid history of doing the rules in a way that makes sense, " said Ms. McCarthy, the agency's assistant administrator for air and radiation.
Dr. Hardeep Singh, who led the new study at the Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, added that most of the missed diagnoses were traced back to the office visit and the doctor not getting an accurate patient history, doing a full exam or ordering the correct tests.
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Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
So today, when the challenges we face start to seem overwhelming -- or even impossible -- let us never forget that doing the impossible is the history of this nation.
All post-war German history has been about doing right by European countries that once suffered under the Nazi jackboot.
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The Dutch, who are among the greatest international business building nations in history, have been doing this for hundreds of years.
After all, the history of foreign investment in China is now entering its fourth decade, while the history of Chinese companies doing business abroad is only now being written.
The nation's best-known movie reviewer "wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history, and in doing so, helped many movies find their audiences, " director Steven Spielberg said.
So in that regard, they don't have a history of that company of doing that type of work.
By so doing, he earned a place in history of inestimably greater importance than any ephemeral arms control deal or Nobel prize.
And if you remember, that was when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and millionaires were doing pretty well.
Considering its recent history, Cambodia is not doing so badly.
Rather than paying the debt back, the growing company rolls the debt over and adds more, just as the U.S. has been doing throughout most of its prosperous economic history.
They join an incredibly elite list of women and men, and a long history filled with ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things -- men and women of undaunted courage, uncommon resolve, and a stubborn perseverance in the face of unfathomable challenge.
Cardinals used to sign their names to ballots, but stopped doing so "due to an old history of intrigues and tensions when people used to fear the most serious reprisals for their choices, " says Michael Bruter, who teaches political science at the London School of Economics.
Andy was also unlucky to have immediately followed the greatest stretch of American tennis in the history of the sport, because doing so raised the expectations of American tennis and sports fans unrealistically skyward.
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Turns out that not only did she parse his inbox, but she also looked through the text messages on his iPhone where she found flirtatious bits and even studied his browsing history to discover that he was doing some travel planning to places she'd never heard of.
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History has closed the gap significantly by doing Pawn Stars, American Pickers, that stuff.
There is rather a depressing history of well-intentioned donations often doing nothing to alleviate society's problems, and sometimes even making matters worse.
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"A lot of coaches treat all the players the same way, whatever their age, whatever their body composition, whatever their injury history, whatever their playing position - everybody is doing the same training, " Verheijen said.
With more than half a century of history on their backs, the company seems to be doing a good job at rejuvenating itself.
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And in so doing, already they have written a new chapter in the rich history of their island, a chapter of resolute courage that inspires us all.
The poorer countries are doing well compared to each other, and compared to their economic history, but their spending power is generations behind their European, American, and Japanese counterparts.
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