The Yankees have no doubt pored over every word of Alex Rodriguez's contract in recent days, searching for something akin to an escape hatch.

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This suggests that shops were able to shift such large volumes last month by heavy discounting, something that will not escape the attention of the "doves" on the MPC.

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Though meant, as a concept, to relieve mothers of the pressure to be perfect, the promotion, even half-seriously, of alcohol as an escape, something deserved as a reward for a long day of parenting, has helped make evident the biggest issue of all: That many women don't realize what problem drinking looks, or feels, like.

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Fearful of being trapped in Kansas forever, he is driven by a desire to escape his beginnings and become something he imagines is bigger and better than his father ever was.

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The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

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Instead, they felt like they had nowhere to turn, as if they had no escape from taunting and bullying that made school something they feared.

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In other words, doing a good job of the analysis required by an enterprise architecture means that CITOs must escape the comforting cocoon of technology concerns, something that is never easy for them.

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They might yet escape from obscurity were they lucky enough to become catalysts for something bigger.

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There is also something to be said about nostalgia, as wearing clothes from another period can be a sort of escape from contemporary stresses for twenty-first century Americans.

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