Loose lips expose big slips across the states
Devils Lake Mayor: Just when you think things can’t get worse, they do. Toyota’s Toyoda: Isn’t that the truth.
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At the Academy Awards presentation the other night, it was noted that the last time 10 films had been nominated for best picture was in 1943, the year “Casablanca” won.
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Someone has a plan to salvage Detroit: Change it from Motown to Mayberry. Seriously.
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The snow is melting in the woods of North Carolina and the kudzu is greening up.
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Citigroup, one the world’s largest banks, was bailed out with some $45 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds and we taxpayers — you and I — still own a little over one quarter of the company.
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Of all the paid jobs I have ever held, the one that was most immediately satisfying to me was waitressing, back in high school and college.
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