Our perceptions about warming and cooling trends tend to depend upon where we happen to reside and the time frame we experience for reference.

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Those who work on the restorations can leave with experience and a reference to help them get back into work.

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Then, Commerce prescribes a proper amount of profit that firms selling the subject product in the non-market economy should be earning, if they were operating in a market economy, again by reference to the profit experience of chosen firms in a similar industry in the other country.

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The only way I can answer it is to reference my own youth coaching experience.

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It's almost as though unless people experience hunger personally, they lack a frame of reference that allows them to empathize with those in need.

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And the reason that dancers are often said to peak in their early 30s (that sweet spot where Hines and Baryshnikov were when they made the movie, thus the reference to it) is where the increase in skill and experience is still just ahead of the decrease in pure physical ability.

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As Judge Sotomayor's Puerto Rican heritage is discussed in reference to her nomination, it is clear that it is an experience that is thoroughly American.

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