It's also full of sadness, anger, paranoia and visions of the apocalypse, which is also, knowing your past work, about what I expected.

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This deal would never have happened without all of your hard work and accomplishments this past year.

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In my opinion, once you walk through the doors of Tribune Tower, you are a Tribune employee and your past is not an issue as long as you do good work.

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As a result, even if your uninspired work down at the cracker factory yielded nothing more than cost-of-living raises over the past 40 years, you would become more susceptible to the AMT over time purely because the exemption was not increasing in lock-step with your wages.

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