The courage Roger has shown these last years as he has fought his own illnesses -- you can read the details of what he went through in the formal obituaries.

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Last week, former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a formal vetting to be the next Secretary of Defense.

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The feds said there were no takers, even though Natt drafted a formal offering statement, made expansive claims and went to the trouble of obtaining official Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP) registration numbers, which are issued to facilitate sale and trading of North American securities.

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Families in villages would betroth their children, at birth sometimes, and have a formal ceremony after both attained puberty, when the girl went to live with her husband's family.

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The court went on to note that the dancers were not required to have any formal training and otherwise relied on personal experience for purposes of developing a performance.

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Clinton cited as an example his May 16 formal apology on behalf of the government to a group of blacks whose syphilis went untreated for decades as part of a U.S. Public Health Service study.

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Mr Marsden said no formal plans to exhume Savile had been made, but he would support them if they went ahead.

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In 1985 he went freelance, working regularly for a handful of families who wanted help on special occasions such as formal dinners and shooting weekends.

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The court rejected that argument, but went even further, finding that under the Constitution, a recess occurs only during the breaks between formal year-long sessions of Congress, not just any informal break when lawmakers leave town.

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