But he soon learned that his Associates Degree didn't count for much with employers.

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He soon learned that one of his closest friends had been diagnosed with ALS, and was heading to Asia to look for alternative treatments.

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Levy said he recused himself as soon as he learned that Hossu, "who my family had known for years, " was under investigation.

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"As soon as he learned how to putt, he was going to be a dominating force, " McDowell said.

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It would have been far better if Miller had left the meeting with his team as soon as he learned about the delay.

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Collins, a 20-year-old sophomore at Boston's Emerson College, learned soon after he joined the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity that his insurance company declined to cover surgery to remove breast tissue to flatten his chest.

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Rothman learned the value of chutzpah soon after he and wife LaVonda opened their first cigar store in Manhattan in 1970.

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He spent time at a work camp near Auschwitz in Poland and soon learned of the horrors at the Nazi concentration camp nearby.

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