On Tuesday, Mr Mubarak said Egypt had responded favourably to calls for reconciliation "despite the fact that some continue to overshadow the climate of reconciliation with positions that reflect schemes forged outside our Arab region", an apparent reference to Syria's strategic alliance with Iran.

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Under the cease-fire, about 1, 500 Russian peacekeepers are allowed to remain inside, and can do patrols about 6 kilometers outside, the "zone of conflict, " a reference to South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

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The Washington neurosurgeon's reference to "testing" was also encouraging to outside experts who were trying to interpret Kennedy's seizure.

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Scott Fitzgerald (who was 4 years old in 1900, just the right age to be part of the first generation of Oz fans) included a reference to "The Land of Oz" in his story "Outside the Cabinet-Makers, " the characters were already iconic.

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On Tuesday, he said he saw two gunmen looking at the plaque outside his house: It reads "Biblioteque de Manuscripts, " or manuscript library, a reference to his grandfather's parchment collection.

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As for the story that you reference, obviously there are a lot of ideas that get bandied about, both within the administration and outside.

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This can happen even if the employee's views are expressed outside of work (as happened to Allstate's Matt Barber, who was fired), and when no reference is made to sexual orientation (as happened to the City of Oakland's Good News Employee Association, which was forbidden to speak about "family values").

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