He cautioned me that making an offer on a house in this condition could mean a lengthy battle with the bank holding the obligation, to get them to agree to a fair price.

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Many of these former settlements are in much better condition than Pripyat and offer a unique peek into Soviet rural life.

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If they don't, they usually grant working visas on condition of a job offer, in which case companies carry out their own recruitment process.

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Advisers must find out if a work has been shopped to death or ever failed to sell at auction, offer a report on the work's condition, judge how significant the piece was in the artist's career and then ascertain that the piece is neither stolen nor fake.

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With such a link, doctors in the U.S. can monitor the condition of a patient in real time and offer advice just as if that patient was in a telemetry-equipped bed in an intensive care unit across the hall.

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Twitter users offer themselves up as candidates to try the cinnamon challenge on the condition that they get a certain number of "RT"s or "retweets" by other Twitter users a method of spreading a message more widely that can have the effect of gaining the original Tweeter more followers and earning them online recognition.

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