Then, in the 1980s, the state developed a green bug, and decided it shouldn't chop down Mother Nature for a living.

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Maggiolo's so-called "chop challenge" brought another brief moment of silence before one of the Chinese officials said the document didn't need a chop because it had his signature on it.

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'Excuse me, I said, but this doesn't have an official chop on it.

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Offering a few tips for the chop isn't too difficult this year.

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But their finances won't be squeezed so tightly that they have to chop benefits, raise rates by large amounts or leave markets entirely, as some on Wall Street initially feared.

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To find something that small you'd need to chop the lungs up into fine pieces, and then you can't transplant.

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" Even Joyce's wife, Nora, once referred in her letters to "Finnegans Wake" as "that chop suey you're writing" and once asked him, "Why don't you write sensible books that people can understand?

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One of the things I love about Chris is that I could go out in the yard and chop wood with nothing on but a pair of men's boxer shorts and it wouldn't phase him in the least.

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