"I've been lucky to travel around a lot, " he says.

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And then for Americans lucky enough to travel outside the country, the horrors of our devaluationist policies in the States follow us wherever we go.

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Its institutions publish online compendia of the government's directives, the results of civil service exams (based, they claim, on merit, not factional allegiance), and send text messages to the lucky few cleared for travel to Egypt to update them on bus and crossing times.

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Usually, the excitement is limited to those lucky few delegates who get travel to the national conventions.

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"I feel so lucky to be able to travel all over the country and talk to girls and boys about some of these really dark times that we find ourselves in, " says Thompson.

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Saudi women already have their pictures in their passports if they are lucky enough to be allowed by their guardians (father or husband) to travel but this, or so it is said, is not so troublesome since it is mainly foreign men who examine these passports, not a Saudi who might know the holder personally.

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The scientists who were lucky enough to get close to the Mona Lisa for this work did not have far to travel, as they work in the Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France a subterranean laboratory that lies beneath the Louvre.

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And some lesser known options for avoiding these fees are the Pentagon Federal Promise and Travel Rewards Amex, the HSBC Premier, and the Schwab Visa (if you were lucky enough to get one before it was discontinued).

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