The common thread is work and leadership experience in a related field.

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Alternatively for more unusual, unbranded souvenirs, visit the Women's Handicraft Centre (Karama St, Al Mushrif), where local female artisans produce weaving and thread-work, or don your haggling hat at the carpet souq on Al Meena Road.

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The changing shape and contents of these pieces are the most intriguing evolutionary thread in Mr Hirst's work.

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Even as we feared there could be a war, we were taken to a silk thread factory where 2, 000 women work diligently.

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The common thread here is that penalizing individuals who work every day in pursuit of a better life and clipping the wings of those who have vision, take a risk, and create new industries does little to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit and promote job growth.

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There are folks who are just barely hanging on by a thread, too many folks losing their homes, too many folks out of work.

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He showed it to an expert, who found the needle-and-thread theory "entirely original, " says Mr. Humphrey, whose own scholarly work has examined arenas for Roman chariot racing.

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