The Metropolitan Museum of Art's blockbuster exhibition on the fashion designs of Alexander McQueen demonstrated the value of preserving fashion collections, prototypes and sketches, Mr. Guttman said.

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In the future, UNESCO hopes to create similar books based on the heritage of various provinces across Afghanistan to encourage greater understanding and awareness of the threats to the heritage in different parts of the country and the value in preserving it.

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Redemption battles between hedge funds and their investors have been a common feature of the credit crisis as hedge funds blocked cash outflows in the name of preserving value of the underlying assets.

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MIT, along with other academic shrines, may do all this while preserving the value of what it really sells: spots in the lecture hall and dorm rooms, the chance to interact face-to-face with a prestigious faculty and like-minded students and, a golden credential, the MIT diploma.

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To Reagan, preserving the Social Security system was a higher value.

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