But recently two of these stood out for me: One is Special Olympics where people with intellectual disabilities participate in sporting events, the other one is a South African charity supporting HIV-positive people called Positive Heroes .
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All of these people stood to make money by supporting the myth that an investment in Enron made sense.
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With a property-developer mindset, these companies stood to profit more than western managers in the days when property valuations were skyrocketing.
Encircling the moon, throughout the amphitheatre, these lanky figures stood or sat, their faces framed by beards or unkempt hair.
And day after day, these women have stood up and said the things that no one else could say, or would say.
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Within a few hours, he forgot that he had given the order, and in a few dozen years he in turn was forgotten, but these trees still stood, enormous now, some of them dead and looming without bark, white and leafless.
"There's a benefit to each of these films that previously stood in isolation, " Mr. Hollis said.
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When Rwanda issued its first international bond last month, we stood true to these values.
Dr Gallo has stood up to these individuals, including in a court of law, and has been abused for it.
These people who lined the road stood still and kept their arms by their sides.
Perhaps I should have stood up and asked these questions at the moment.
What does link these men is that they all stood as non-Blairites.
Patrick Rudden of Alliance Bernstein recently wrote that there are various reasons why some investors are skeptical of active equity managers these days, but one reason stood out.
So if a wigger is somebody who maintains this distance from black people, a wegro is somebody who actually has a sincere interest in the trying to transcend these artificial racial boundaries that have stood between us for so long.
But the larger, and significant, shifts in these measures occurred when people walked and stood for those six hours per day.
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While the international community has assisted these efforts, the Kenyan people have stood together to solidify the rule of law and put Kenya on a path to greater prosperity.
They also remind us that the silent majority who once stood in the face of these threats will be silent no more and that public revulsion against the violence has strengthened the resolve of girls to go to school.
It surprised her, all these thoughts running through her head as she stood there, reading the postcard.
As the police officer approached my family, I quickly stood up and told him that these were deaf and dumb people that I was chaperoning.
These cracks had nothing to do with where she stood, but were instead the result of upward pressure from beneath the trapdoor.
"When I found out what these gases were, every hair on my arms stood up and I began to shake, " he says.
The SDLP's Alban Maginness said although his party did not give "unqualified support" for the bill as it currently stood, they were willing to address these concerns at later stages of the bill's passage through the assembly.
These include Sir Peter Viggers and Andrew MacKay who stood down after it emerged he had named the main home in which he and his wife, fellow Tory MP Julie Kirkbride, lived as his second home and claimed expenses on it.
These stories and anecdotes were shared amongst the brethren of collectors who stood in between roped off lines longer than they had originally anticipated.
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Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group, stood at the center of one of the largest of these insider trading networks.
British scientists pick up Nobel prizes so frequently these days that they are hardly deemed newsworthy, but one has stood out above all others for her contribution to the wellbeing of the planet.
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These numbers are staggering as at the start of C20 the debt to GDP stood at 20%.
"These changes are a victory for all senators on both sides of the aisle who stood up to say this rebate should go to the folks who will stimulate our economy the fastest, " said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.
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