My parents have been my saving grace, without them, I might not be here.

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Besides, you've seen most of them here already, without having to brave the crowds!

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Without them, we would not be here.

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" And she mentioned an African-American who told her that he used to have construction jobs but now "the only people who get them anymore are people who are here without documentation.

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Coleman and Schmidt also properly warned about the possibility that competency-based learning might mean students just zipping past concepts without truly mastering them (Tom Vander Ark has written about this concern more here).

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"It is difficult to feed one person here in Chad, so to feed 100, 000 more without having planned for them is dramatic, " he adds.

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"If I'm trying to keep things secret, it's impossible to talk to these specialists without them saying, 'Oh, my God, you wouldn't believe who was here today and what he was asking, ' " Mr. Brown says.

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Mr. JERRY AMATO (Owner of Mother's): Well, my cooks are living in the FEMA trailers in the parking lot, and without them, I couldn't have reopened, but that was the only way I could get them in here, was to give them a place to work, and, actually, for the first two weeks we were open, I put them up in a hotel across the street.

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