At a recent MLP investor conference sponsored by NAPTP, executives were abuzz with excitement about their quest for investment-grade status.

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Wallop and other farsighted legislators will persist in the quest for answers to hard questions about a Golan deployment before the United States is committed to undertake it.

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And they give strong suggestions about what to do next in the quest for life elsewhere in the universe.

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The quest to discover more about his father provides the action for Camus's luminous autobiographical novel, "The First Man, " the incomplete manuscript of which was found in the wreckage of Gallimard's Facel Vega automobile.

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Fortunately, though, a quest for a sort of Medieval socialism does not play well with American voters, so opponents cast about for logical-sounding arguments that focus-group better.

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America's Moon shots were the symbol of its boundless quest for the future, but now politicians who talk about space risk mockery.

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In her determined quest for the presidency, Michele Bachmann has made several statements about historical data that were later proven erroneous and corrected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact.com.

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She joined Silva in his quest to become a mercenary selling his talents for jobs to the highest bidder, something that clearly came about later after she escaped her childhood victimization.

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