When this fate befalls 14-year-old Molly, her 8-year-old sister Daisy and Gracie, their 10-year-old cousin, the oldest girl, who is not one for hesitation or self-doubt, promptly incites the younger two to escape with her.
While housing markets continue to lag, providing one of the largest obstacles for a self-sustained economic recovery, The Home Depot, one of the largest home repair retailers, posted a 12% surge in profits despite falling sales.
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And I have no one to blame but myself for my self-inflicted wounds.
One of these ideas was for a self-driving car, not through a desert, but on the streets of San Francisco and beyond.
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Mr Summers strongly denied one potential self-interested motive for a weaker dollar: to help the American stockmarket by improving the prospects of leading multinationals such as Intel, McDonald's, and Gillette, whose dollar profits from Europe have suffered from the weak euro.
One simple statistic tells that tale: it costs nearly three times as much to rent a self-drive van for a one-way journey from Los Angeles to Houston as the other way around.
That raises a double laugh, for self-employment is one of the greatest disappointments.
There is no hard and fast rule about how often and how long one must engage in self-affirmation for it to work.
Insulin pens are injector devices designed to allow multiple self-injections for one person, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's website.
The personal income of each member of the management team, from board members to middle-level managers, is limited to their salary, incentive bonus and stock dividends provided by the company, with policies to ensure that no one in the company abuses their power for self-serving purposes.
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One driver of this is the growing need for self-sufficiency.
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The philosophy of self-control and respect for one's opponent outside the arena is just as critical to master as the physical conditioning for when the fight begins.
While I have a deep and abiding respect for self-made people, no one values the beneficial effects of an authentic culture on individuals, including myself, more than I do.
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In 1987 she had founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development which, as one of its programmes, took children of different races round the country to learn about the civil-rights movement.
The device of choice for IT is the one on which nobody calls them for help, so the best of these platforms will be self-service enabled.
Robinson Crusoe and 60's sitcoms aside, having an island to one's self is an enduring fantasy, and for good reason.
In other words, CouchSurfing is a largely rhizomatous affiliation of strangers intersecting with one another not only out of self-interest but for the good of all.
This leads me to my final point, one that I have argued for the last 15 years: Self-settled trusts of all varietals should be avoided in all except a few limited circumstances where they might make sense, as set forth above.
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People from Romania and Bulgaria have been free to live in the UK since 2007, but have either had to apply for one of the limited work permits available, been self-employed or worked in a specific list of jobs such as seasonal agricultural ones and domestic servants.
People from Romania and Bulgaria have been free to live in the UK and anywhere else in the EU since the countries joined the EU in 2007, but in the UK they have either had to apply for one of the limited work permits available, be self-employed, or work in specific jobs such as seasonal agricultural or as domestic servants.
"One per cent of prisoners are responsible for 25% of all self-harm incidents in the prison estate, " he said.
"We think it would be unlikely that there'd be a significant change in the volume of" self-insurance for small firms, said one official with the Department of Health and Human Services.
People from Romania and Bulgaria have been free to live in the UK and anywhere else in the EU since 2007, but in the UK have either had to apply for one of the limited work permits available, have been self-employed, or worked in specific jobs such as in seasonal agricultural or as domestic servants.
He was mocked for his boundless self-regard, but there was one man he came to admire even more.
Le Parisien, a newspaper, devoted 18 pages to the one-time parliamentary deputy who set up self-supporting communities for the homeless.
The result is an estate of 20 self-build houses which were sold for about one third of their market value with the proviso that they must remain in the possession of local people.
Oregon is proposing a self-imposed two probation and the loss of one scholarship for the next three years.
And that future self is the one paying me to look past the headlines for the real story.
Winfrey, known for a feel-good message and penchant for self-improvement, used the final hour to teach one last lesson.
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