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SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
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$200
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You're looking for the dress this woman wore as she wed Prince William? Talk about one of a kind--that cost $434,000!
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Kate Middleton
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$400
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A $200,000 horse of this breed from the American Stud Book--how kind, especially with the $50,000 annual upkeep thrown in
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a Thoroughbred
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$600
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I can't believe you bought me this NHL team that had players like Guy Carbonneau, Guy Lapointe & Guy Lafleur... merci!
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the Canadiens
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$800
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This indoor bike-making co. had a market value of $31 billion in 2021, so don't go crazy--just 50% of it would be enough for anyone
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Peloton
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$1000
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An ancient sculpture of an athlete about to throw this should arrive by Christmas --Myron's original is lost, so it's just a copy
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the discus
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
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$200
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Waaaah! The store ran out of my favorite Cabernet
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whine wine
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$400
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What's that smell coming from your penny?
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scent cent
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$600
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What you're in if you can't remember if it's the first of the month, the third, the fourth, the tenth
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a daze days
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$800
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Unfriendly lodging for young travelers abroad
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a hostile hostel
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$1000
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An official document seal belonging to a young swan
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a signet cygnet
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ALL AROUND THE WORLD
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$200
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When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour
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St. Peter\'s
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$400
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You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer"
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Cooperstown
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$600
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Picasso's "Guernica" is in this capital, where it was sent only after democracy had returned
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Madrid
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$800
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The 1,500-foot Petronas Towers are linked via a skybridge between floors 41 & 42 in this Malaysian city
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Kuala Lumpur
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$1000
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The 12,000-square-mile Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic circle in this "directional" political unit
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the Northwest Territories
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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?
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$200
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In "Remember the Titans", this actor is the coach of an integrated football team in 1971
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(Denzel) Washington
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$400
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Burt Reynolds starred as Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard"; this "SNL" alum, in the remake
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Sandler
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$600
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Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie
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Brian\'s Song
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$800
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As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves"
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Cruise
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$1000
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The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team
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Horse Feathers
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IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER
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$200
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On December 5, 1933 FDR announced the repeal of this; cheers!
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Prohibition
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$400
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In what was then the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, this energy giant filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2001
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Enron
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$600
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On December 26, 2004 a 9.1 undersea earthquake in this ocean triggered a massive & deadly tsunami
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the Indian Ocean
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$800
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In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world
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(Sir Francis) Drake
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$1000
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Deciding he was better suited for the Senate, in December 1832 this South Carolinian resigned as vice president
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Calhoun
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FIRST RESPONDERS
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$200
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A little more advanced than a typical EMT, "P" is for this first responder, able to dispense medicines
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a paramedic
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$400
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Some first responders are trained to deal with this 6-letter issue; here's one wearing the suit of the same name
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HAZMAT
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$600
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Hoist gloves protect first responders' hands while aboard these vehicles performing rescues
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helicopters
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$800
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Where there are these pros, there's fire; the U.S. Forest Service employs more than 300 of them
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smoke jumpers
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$1000
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The First Responder Support Network helps those with trauma from the job & who may be suffering from this, PTSD for short
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
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$400
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America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today
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Tesla
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$800
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This man who gave his name to a scale of earthquake strength was an avid nudist & Trekkie
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Richter
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$1200
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This scientist's Agricultural Research Foundation in Tuskegee was founded after he donated most of his life savings in 1940
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Carver
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$1600
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In 2000, Bill Clinton joined entrepreneur Craig Venter & government scientist Francis Collins to announce success in this, HGP for short
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the Human Genome Project
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$2000
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Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book
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(Rachel) Carson
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20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD
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$400
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The Volkswagen Passat: this man singing "On The Road again"
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Willie Nelson
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$800
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Allstate: this hit by ska band Madness
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"Our House"
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$1200
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Sargento cheese: this biggest hit by Modern English
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"I Melt With You"
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$1600
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Kia: "Holding Out For A Hero" by this '80s singer
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Bonnie Tyler
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$2000
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Oh, oh, oh,it's this '70s song by Pilot that diabetes drug Ozempic adapted
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"It\'s Magic"
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NOTORIOUS
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$400
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Con man George Parker was notorious for "selling" NYC landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge & this man's tomb on West 122nd St.
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Grant
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$800
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In 1820s Edinburgh, Burke & Hare were killers who sold their victims' bodies to the head of a school of this medical subject
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anatomy
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$1200
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This doctor was convicted as part of Lincoln's murder after a boot belonging to John Wilkes Booth was found at his home
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(Samuel) Mudd
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$1600
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In 2020 the FBI acknowledged that private citizens had broken a cipher sent by the 1960s Bay Area killer known as this
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the Zodiac Killer
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$2000
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Born Arthur Flegenheimer, he was gunned down in 1935 after his plan to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey alarmed other mobsters
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Dutch Schultz
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"K" 9
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$400
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A single action of pressing a letter or other button on a computer console
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keystroke
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$800
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It's the instructional item being used here
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a kickboard
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$1200
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This word is from the Greek for "thousand" & "measure"
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kilometer
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$1600
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One who uses political influence to put another in power
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a kingmaker
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$2000
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It's what Russian-American inventor Vladimir Zworykin called his early TV picture tube
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a kinescope
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NOVELS & NOVELISTS
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$400
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Tolstoy & Fielding are among those who've employed an "intrusive" this who both reports & interrupts a story
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a narrator
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$800
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"La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one
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Cervantes
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$1200
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Mary McCarthy's "The Group" follows the lives of 8 graduates of this Seven Sisters college north of New York City
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Vassar
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$1600
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Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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$2000
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Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh
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P.D. James
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FIRST RESPONSES
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$400
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We've covered the Earned Income Tax Credit but never this tax credit for parents that came along 22 years later
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a child tax credit
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$800
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Born in 2018, this younger brother of Prince George & Princess Charlotte gets his first response
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Prince Louis (of Cambridge)
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$1200
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Far from hardcore, this type of film is about young people, often adrift & talking a lot (but not loud)
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mumblecore
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$1600
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Added to merriam-webster.com in 2020 but done by people long before, it's to hinder a process by doing it at very low speed
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slow walk
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$2000
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Chelsea Clinton, Levi Strauss chair Bob Haas & Google CEO Sundar Pichai all worked at this management consultant McCompany
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McKinsey
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INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS
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In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort
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Mount Everest
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