• She saw that the pumpkin head had fallen from the step, or had been kicked.

    NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

  • Mr Herring said the most common issue they found was people who were lonely or had been left behind by friends.

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  • Elsewhere, many Afghans seemed ready to believe that ISAF was lying: that the soldier had not acted alone, or had been drunk.

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  • Years later, these organizations would come back to discover that these systems had fallen into disrepair or had been repurposed for another use.

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  • "I feel if people had a chance to see the other portions of practice, or had been at practice, their judgment would not be as severe, " Johnson said.

    WSJ: Two Rutgers players defend fired coach Rice

  • In early August, the federal government estimated that about three-quarters of the oil spilled had either evaporated or been dispersed, or had been skimmed or burned off the surface.

    CNN: No signs of 'dead zone' in Gulf, feds say

  • Public health minister Anna Soubry said there were currently about 1.8m people who were being or had been treated for cancer - a figure set to rise to 3.4m by 2030.

    BBC: Cancer survivors need 'recovery package', ministers say

  • The indictment also said Niazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen, lied about his use of aliases and denied he had ever been a member or had been associated with a terrorist organization.

    CNN: Man accused of lying about ties to al Qaeda

  • It would require companies to give any worker who is age 40 or had been employed for ten years the choice of remaining in the old plan or opting for the new one.

    FORBES: Pension Wars: The Fallout After IBM

  • "We had a limited transfer budget, these were guys who were very good players who we could get at a discount because they weren't coming off stellar seasons or had been injured, " Montella says.

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  • People who are not personally invested in what's been going on, they're not - these are not their programs that they're either trying to put in place or had been in place and aren't working.

    NPR: Joint Chiefs Shake-Up Leaves Questions

  • The freeing of 159 of these in December, and a recent offer to let out another 900, were met with scorn: most were either close to finishing their sentences anyway or had been held for fairly minor offences.

    ECONOMIST: The day that peace broke out? | The

  • Risking renewed threat of American attack, the Iraqis wheeled out official after official, looking fairly enraged themselves, to argue that the papers had either already been handed over, or had been destroyed, or never existed in the first place.

    ECONOMIST: Saddam��s sleep of the unjust

  • There were no trees anywhere it was as though Camelot had been nuked or had been the brainchild of the logging industry maybe and each house was exactly the same except that some had powder blue vinyl siding and others had desert tan.

    NPR: Chapter 1

  • Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont then questioned the first minister on, what she termed, the "SNP's hidden waiting list scandal" asking whether former Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon was guilty of having misled the parliament and the country or had been "incompetent or not on top of the job".

    BBC: Salmond says Scots among hostages in Algeria

  • The council acknowledged that in 31 cases there had been "no clear instruction" or it had been unable "to locate the paper records".

    BBC: Glasgow City Council runs Linn Crematorium

  • President Obama was in Minnesota today, where he met with men and women who are on the front line of the fight to prevent more tragedies like the ones in Newtown and Aurora: local police officers, community leaders, and people who themselves had been victims or whose families had been victims of gun violence.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • Now, I just had a chance to sit down with some local police officers but also community leaders, as well as folks who themselves had been victims or whose families had been victims of gun violence, to hear their ideas about how we can protect our kids and address the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • For instance, reporters could see if subscribers had been looking at top news stories, or if they had been gathering data on stocks or bonds, but not which stories or bonds and stocks they had looked up, according to Bloomberg LP spokesman Ty Trippet.

    WSJ: Bloomberg editor apologizes on information access

  • The home secretary said this was because that the matches had been made only after defendants had either been acquitted of another crime or a decision had been made not to proceed with the particular cases which the DNA profiles had been taken for.

    BBC: Yobs targeted by Straw

  • Or they had been instructed to sing to her, or dance a masque, or wrestle young wolves in a ring for the entertainment of the host.

    NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

  • And we have no reason to question the assessment that had been made or the recommendation that had been made by the Japanese authorities.

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  • This is an historic time for those Americans who never had health insurance, who had to go without insurance after losing a job or becoming sick, or who had been turned down because of a pre-existing condition.

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  • "Among all victims of inmate-on-inmate sexual violence, a quarter said they had been physically held down or restrained, and a quarter had been physically harmed or injured, " the report said.

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  • The water had been cold, her teeth had chattered, but her hands had not let go of the oar perhaps she had been a true coward, or perhaps she had been overcome by animal instinct, hanging on to life blindly.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • Other officials were quoted as saying the helicopter had been mistaken for a rebel aircraft, or that it had been downed by rebels.

    BBC: Russia demands action over UN helicopter downed in S Sudan

  • Critics had been silenced or killed, and teachers had been afraid to discipline students.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • The FAI also heard that key paperwork outlining Georgia's care plan was missing or had not been completed.

    BBC: Georgia Rowe and Neve Lafferty

  • All the men classified as having anxiety or depression had been diagnosed by a psychiatrist, a big plus for the study.

    CNN: Study: Anxiety in youth linked to heart attacks later on

  • It should be noted that the NFL quickly dispelled this notion, denying that any compromise or settlement had been put on the table.

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