There was the ultrasonic dishwasher, the atomic food preservation system and countless other wonders housed within its curvy shell.

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He also played a major role in keeping dams out of Dinosaur National Monument, the Yukon, and the Grand Canyon, and in establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System.

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Every one of you, even the most cynical among you, understands and cherishes the function of a free press and the preservation of our system of government and of our way of life.

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The Training Program included lessons, discussions, dialogues and interactive exercises of expert-trainers regarding the role and place of museum-reserves in the system of preservation and use of cultural and natural heritage of CIS countries.

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While the natural inclination after something like a brain aneurysm might be to completely reconfigure your value system and give up on much of your old life in favor of self-preservation at all costs, you have to resist that urge.

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However when it was ratified in Moscow, Russian lawmakers linked it to the preservation of an earlier Cold War deal - the ABM - which prevented either side from creating a national missile defence system.

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