Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

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The Pine Ridge reservation exemplifies the extreme opposite: the tragic consequence of defending a way of life in impossible circumstances.

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In a strange way, the 401(k)-tapping phenomenon is an unintended consequence of the trend toward automatic enrollment in the plans, designed to get more workers to save for retirement.

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One good consequence of the change, however, will be a greater clarity in the way companies think about their businesses.

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The consequence was that Independence Day this July was celebrated in a rather different way at the University of South Dakota.

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In addition, a recent effort is under way to make use of the many PCIe-based interfaces that are developing as a consequence of the high speed data transfers that are possible using flash memory and future non-volatile memory devices.

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