However, it is easy to forecast that it will rain some day and then assume credit when there is finally a shower.

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Later that next day when she needed time to do some work, I offered to cover for her.

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That all came on the back of some rather uglier cricket earlier in the day when Luke Wright and Andrew Hodd were allowed to put on 115 in 9.2 overs before the visitors closed their second innings.

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So when I was sworn in on that very cold day in January -- some of you may remember -- we lost 750, 000 jobs in that month alone.

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The idea is that some day soon, doctors will be able to automatically alert their public health department and the CDC when they diagnose a patient with a communicable disease of concern, such as whooping cough or tuberculosis.

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Scarcely a day goes by when some foreign leader, commentator or activist doesn't say that being pro-Israel doesn't mean being pro-Israeli government.

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