You don't lose the essence, it flows, and nobody sees that the scenes are cut, but it will weigh differently.

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Ironically, if Clinton doesn't accept the essence of such a reduction, he will be jeopardizing the electoral prospects of heir Al Gore with the resultant economic slowdown.

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Isn't that really the essence of political posturing?

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In essence, they didn't object to her as a judge, just that the seat did not need to be filled.

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In essence, scientists don't know why the universe exists at all.

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That is probably the essence of why margins weren't up to snuff and why investors are punishing the stock in the aftermath of the news.

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But the essence of Mr. Noyce's approach isn't politics, even if Greene's cautionary tale has acquired a new immediacy as American troops prepare for possible war in Iraq.

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So there seems to be a little bit of a disconnect between saying in essence the system worked and Abdullah Abdullah saying the system can't work.

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And that is the essence of CBT: Depression, anxiety and other ills aren't the cause of a cascade of debilitating thoughts and self-loathing--they are, instead, a result of the same.

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"Some people got upset that I wasn't reading the words, but I told them I was giving them the essence of it, " says Mr. Winkler, who played Fonzie on TV's long-running "Happy Days" and many other roles.

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The Senate isn't expected to take a final vote on its package of gun-control legislation, in essence leaving the issue tabled.

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