At the entrance to Chernovohrad, a prototypical Lenin statue stares grimly at a jumble of abandoned factories down the road.

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Consider the story of Pittsburgh rookie linebacker Sean Spence, who was 230 pounds and had been considered undersized for a prototypical linebacker while at the University of Miami.

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It's a prototypical good gift, because it's something that they would probably feel guilty about buying for themselves, plus it has positive associations as a memento of the day.

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Conversations are a prototypical way of triggering the crossfire of ideas, but an exchange will not bear fruit if people fear that their ideas will be declared dead on arrival, swept aside as wild, or denounced as dumb.

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Many watching the scenes from the rest of the country would probably be surprised to have found bars full of customers in much of New York City outside of lower Manhattan, but it is still a prototypical city, still has neighborhoods and still has bars that cater to those neighborhoods.

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While the entire system is still prototypical, it currently works "over a 35 square kilometer area in Stockholm, " and designers are currently testing interest in other locales throughout the UK. Personally, we can't wait to see the variations in storylines while cruising down the 101 versus the pits of Hell's Kitchen, but we'll probably just wait for third party reports of the later.

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Assistant Dean Sean Ferguson said that because there's no "prototypical" applicant, the long-used GMAT provides a standard measure of a student's ability.

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