The Castro began as a venue for silent movies, and after that featured first-run movies for many years until diversifying into festivals and other events.

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The Jesuits, missionaries and educators, are trained to be expert communicators and it is significant that among the first people summoned to meet the new Pope at his hotel suite this morning was fellow Jesuit Father Lombardi - official Vatican spokesperson, head of Vatican Radio (run for many years by the Jesuits) and of the Vatican Press Office.

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It aims to push patients out of the shrink's office after only 10 to 25 visits, in sharp contrast to traditional psychotherapy that can run on for many years. (Some CBT patients need more.) That makes CBT particularly popular among employee health plans and insurers intent on reducing the costs of psychotherapy.

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The government had run deficits for so many years that most people had all but given up on the idea of balancing the budget.

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They also have a long revenue tail: With many trusts set to run for 20 years or more, sellers can look forward to decades of administration and money management fees.

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Once they're built, they will run for many hours, for many years.

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Working with thousands of people in organizations around the world for the past 30 years, I have run into many misconceptions about what it takes to really make change work.

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Last year I ran a selection of the work and thought it would be good idea to do so again as the project still has many years to run, their aim being to continue for 24 years.

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France has that tradition, and for many years it has also had the Minitel: a once-advanced interactive screen system run by France Telecom, which even now supplies a lot of information, though it is less used for actual sales.

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Many life-insurance contracts, on the other hand, are investments that run for several years.

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He and Secretary Rumsfeld have demanding appetites for strategic thought, that is, large ideas, broad in scope, that set courses that can run many years into the future.

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