But a few years later, the high sharp voice of Hank Williams would cut like a knife through the music world.

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The UN said last week that opium-poppy production has begun to rise again in Myanmar after six years of sharp declines.

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Then there were the piles of four-page inserts that the Philadelphia Inquirer brought to the confab, which boasted of its success in ending three straight years of sharp declines in average daily circulation by growing circulation an exceedingly modest 2, 136 daily papers during the previous six months.

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