While Mr Raymond, with his doctorate in chemical engineering, publicly doubted climate change, the company quietly researched whether global warming could open up new areas for oil exploration.

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Her eyes were open as she defiantly faced death, and then she quietly drifted away.

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Much of this happens quietly in church basements, in mosques holding open houses, in Jewish centers, or in university or community halls, but such events too are often obscured, drowned out by the ideology of our age.

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His innovation was to take indie rock quietly toward melody, a space that had been left surprisingly wide open by his peers.

NEWYORKER: Pretty Simple

The rift came into the open last year after Liu Yonghao, at 46 the youngest and most assertive sibling, quietly set up his own companies and invested in businesses he considered strategically important.

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When the Senate was debating a different measure earlier in the year, he quietly prevented Moran from gaining a vote on a stand-alone proposal to keep the towers open.

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