At the same time, getting to the root of what a meaningful life means for each of us can be a difficult process.

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Instead, business leaders should examine the root cause of what is happening: the declining life expectancy of US corporations.

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This is the city that built the greatest middle class the world has ever known. (Applause.) This is the city where women rolled up their sleeves and helped build an arsenal for democracy to free the world. (Applause.) This is a city where the great American industry has come back to life and the industries of tomorrow are taking root.

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His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.

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Kalydeco is said to be the first drug to treat the root cause of cystic fibrosis for people with the G551D mutation and could dramatically improve the life expectancy of sufferers.

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Born in 1928 and raised in Brooklyn by Jewish-Polish immigrant parents, Sendak said his own life had been clouded by the Holocaust and that the events of World War II were the root of his raw and honest artistic style.

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You may know a friend or a family member whose life was turned upside down because of some of these unsavory practices that this agency is designed to root out, and maybe you were then determined to prevent that from happening to somebody else.

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