You could also say that maybe they're looking at it on a purely practical level and they realize that we got shut out of any position of power because we boycotted last January.

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We arrived here very early in the morning, and the Marines got a little bit of shut-eye.

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He got out of the car and shut it.

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Mr Walker said he and his daughter got to stop the traffic and shut the gates of the bridge before they pressed the button to raise the bascules and waved the vessel through.

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Mr. JONATHAN OVERPECK (University of Arizona): We have good estimates of when this occurred, you know, when big slugs of freshwater got into the North Atlantic and affected the circulation, shut it down.

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And I carried that lesson with me all those years ago when I got my start fighting for men and women on the South Side of Chicago after their local steel plant shut down.

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