School officials in Los Angeles, for example, relaxed a policy that would have required students to repeat certain grades if they failed to pass end-of-year tests.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

The tasks are repetitive, and the scenery starts to repeat itself by the end of the game as well.

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To repeat what I said at year end, the front running of what would have been 2013 income into the fourth quarter of last year will make 2012 year end look better.

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Second, Argentina does not want to repeat the war, which triggered the end of military dictatorship and the advent of democracy.

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That brought one era of globalisation to an end, and history could repeat itself.

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Yet, to repeat: this is the beginning, not the end.

ECONOMIST: Britain��s Celtic choice

Cycles have a start and an end, they have characteristics that repeat from cycle to cycle, and they often have an explainable cause.

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