Beyond 95, though, the practical point of extending the table became less and less obvious as elements became less and less stable.
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Sperm inside a female's reproductive tract became less viable and the sons of the males that endured the hotter temperature became less fertile, too.
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Activists said the clearances became less frequent but continued nonetheless.
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And after that, I became less and less emotionally present.
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As soon as Iran opened up they became less flexible.
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But once that goal was met, sex became less pleasurable.
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Once I swatched the product, however, I became less enthusiastic.
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Senators who threatened and bullied became less influential as leaders.
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They became less like leaders and more like pragmatic managers.
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The electronics became less reliable and would spontaneously shut off.
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I also became less afraid to put myself into it.
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Over time, his output became less forbidding than his reputation.
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I became less interested in reclaiming words and dissecting them.
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The U.S. was among the countries that became less happy.
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As my thoughts unscrambled themselves, my memory became less shit.
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Though still active, Russell became less popular over the following decades.
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Art became less reverential, but artists never stopped exploring the divine.
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But over time they became less exciting to other UFO people.
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It became less and less clear, however, what we were for.
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He became less hands-on, focusing more on the big picture.
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According to Youket, situations like PDO's became less common over time.
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As spices became less lucrative, Dutch colonists turned to other commodities.
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Once Bryan's appearances became less frequent, the show began to suffer.
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As D1's label and nights became less active, things changed.
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Insurance became less affordable and increased those who could opt out.
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Over time, Biden became less rattled by those kinds of encounters.
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Over the years, the memories of the attack became less frequent.
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I became less outspoken about changing the name of Calhoun College.
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Each day that the shutdown continued, the system became less safe.
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After the birth of their son in 1988, McGee became less active.
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Journalists became less trusting of political officials, more skeptical of political claims.
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Bidding wars became less frequent and spring sales perked up a bit.
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After 9/11, we saw that decision-making often became less transparent.
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Throughout the 2010s it became less clear what actually constituted "rock" anymore.
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With each visit, she became less hurried, and Kossola grew more forthcoming.
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As her music became less chaotic, however, it also became more experimental.
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Jasmine became less of an annoying neighbor and more of a friend.
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But as Hambleton's work became less popular, his quality of life plummeted.
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But when markets were posting double-digit gains, they became less attractive.
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Over the same time period, Democrats became less favorable about the economy.
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Deductibles would rise, according to the CBO, as plans became less generous.
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Technology development became less a story of collective flourishing than personal survival.
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As the park was transformed, it became less responsive to political expression.
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But as the 20th century went on, kids became less and less enthralled.
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Whether or not I really became an actor became less of a concern.
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The prison labor became less and less important to industry and to corporations.
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As questions about the accident continued to swirl, Tesla's statements became less certain.
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Somewhere along the line, though, the conversation around denim trends became less uniform.
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The rats became less tolerant of the toxins and began to lose weight.
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But that balance became less nuanced when showrunner Scott Gimple took the helm.
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It became less dependent on spending cuts and more so on tax rises.
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But I managed, and it didn't take long before it became less scary.
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Several plants have shuttered in recent years as coal became less financially viable.
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The monopolies of the past engaged in price-gouging and became less inventive.
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In 2018, more states (12) became more inclusive than became less inclusive (11).
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At a certain point I became less snobby and more forgiving with music.
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It would be a shame if the U.S. became less attractive to them.
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After the Cold War, competition that could avoid direct fighting became less critical.
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Once I started spending only what I had, my spending became less mindless.
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But from the middle of the second century, the climate became less reliable.
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As more people came online, and the web became less a place for nerds and social misfits, and as the internet became more centralized because of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, community-first sites like YTMND became less and less important.
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Over time, I think, in South Africa that became less and less [the case].
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But once they got there, the shake-up suddenly became less of a priority.
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Gazillion's regular dialogue with the community tailed off and game updates became less regular.
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But as a bigger, rowdier financial system took shape, these targets became less relevant.
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Compensation and benefits packages also became less important as incomes increased, the report said.
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Suddenly, his desire became less scattered and mindlessly indulgent, honed in on one person.
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Those assertions reportedly became less forceful after lawmakers proposed additional funding for the court.
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They estimate that about one in 10 people who were canvassed became less prejudiced.
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It became less likely that Gannett would continue to pursue its unsolicited takeover offer.
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In the 20th century, commentary became less about the lyrics than about the performance.
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Read on for seven tourist destinations that became less popular over the last decade.
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At the same time, and just as disconcerting, CMMI became less inclusive and transparent.
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Gradually, the illness took hold, the inevitable became less abstract and the jokes stopped.
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You become more compliant or less compliant, and I think I became less compliant.
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Uncompensated care became less of a problem in hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid.
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One of the most common conditions reported by students, ADHD, became less frequent, however.
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Googlers have said that they became less and less a presence inside the company.
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In the course of the next four thousand years, the Hebrews became less religious.
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After the report was released, the public became less interested in the Lewinsky affair.
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Adolescent girls in those areas became less likely to want to be housewives, too.
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It became less about serious flamewars and more about fucking posting whatever you want.
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Locals who were once enthusiastic about the Gurkhas became less keen as their numbers increased.
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The militaristic sound became less popular as America protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
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During that time, though, women age 65 to 84 became less likely to live alone.
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"Suddenly, at age 6, girls became less likely than boys to do this," Bian said.
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They also came under pressure as core lending became less profitable and produced less income.
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As soon the genre became less popular, studios began dropping the films and its stars.
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Though the tools and data remained free, they became less valuable to many app makers.
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It suddenly became less likely that he could ruin whole careers in one fell swoop.
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But most obviously: once this open document went viral, it became less and less reliable.
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Chileans became less poor, and millions of people went to university for the first time.
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Downturns became less frequent and less severe; inflation was low and stable; expansions became longer.
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The mammals also miniaturized over generations, as leaves became less nutritious in the carbonaceous air.
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Soon, though, he became less interested in counting the grains than in analysing their chemistry.
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Lee, in a later appearance Friday on CNBC, said he became less cautious about stocks.
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It became less male-dominated, less white, yet people would still write in the margins.
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Dub-plates became less important; the performance of the DJs and the singers took over.
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After it was clear that transcripts of the call were leaking, Flynn became less sure.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Western nations became less interested in championing refugees.
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As its securities-trading business became less profitable, Goldman returned to its client-focused roots.
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But football practice concussions became less common, dropping from 235 to 28 per 22019,000 AEs.
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The boatman became less talkative, as if I'd offended him by refusing his last offer.
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Aspects of Mr. Booker's political life that were advantages for decades suddenly became less so.
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When a reporter asked the men whom they had voted for, they became less chatty.
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Over time, her fear became less acute, and she started to plan for the future.
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The entire world — particularly North America and Western Europe — became less safe as a result.
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Money-supply growth became less of a subject because of the greater difficulty in measuring it.
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Yammer once gained significant traction, but after it was acquired by Microsoft it became less trendy.
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But as iOS games grew in popularity, people became less willing to pay for the experience.
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I'd love if Planescape became less unique, even if it lost a little of its specialness.
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The fancam became less of a digital billboard, and more of an aggressive pop-up ad.
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"The president became less tolerant of the West," a former advisor said on condition of anonymity.
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But when he moved to London, his work became less of a presence in New York.
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I felt more comfortable back home, and with that, became less reliant on exercise for happiness.
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And because prices were declining, homeowners felt poorer and became less likely to make major purchases.
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Racial prejudice did not disappear after the American civil rights movement; it simply became less overt.
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Last week, a heretofore close race became less tight, even if it's seemingly far from over.
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When well-paying jobs became scarce for less educated men, they became less likely to marry.
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I wanted to disperse into thin air ... I eventually spoke less, felt less, physically became less.
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Dr. Kaplan told him the drug still was effective but usually became less so over time.
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People, on the other hand, became less asset-heavy because they couldn't afford to buy things.
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Ward says that for many patients, the voices changed, and became less threatening or less violent.
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The whole national dialogue changed, and Cards became less cool and edgy, especially among the left.
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As the FARC became less active, and eventually disarmed, other armed groups took over the cocaine trade.
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Over the 10-year study period, being bullied, being a bully and witnessing bullying became less common.
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Getting my body back became less about losing weight and more about being healthy and feeling confident.
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U.S. adults also became less likely to smoke and more likely to live with multiple chronic diseases.
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When Lake Wanaka became less active that fall, new role-playing communities popped up to replace it.
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Once I started role-playing, writing became less of a tedious task and more of a hobby.
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His dad, too, saw the industry shift as his own future at the company became less secure.
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On a positive note, power-dressing became less crucial as women gained actual power in the workplace.
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It might seem obvious, then, that it was a year in which the world became less stable.
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As a result, subscriptions became less important as YouTube expanded its ad-supported network of original series.
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Due to changes in electronics, the basic concept became less useful in the decades after its creation.
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Moreover, debate prep became less intense, according to Rubio sources, something they believe ultimately helped the candidate.
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The result was that public health became less ambitious, focusing on managing hazards rather than eliminating them.
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Her skin became more elastic, her limbs and face became less swollen, and her blood pressure steadied.
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With every network note, Ball Four the sitcom became less and less like Ball Four the book.
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This change took him into new territory and, to his credit, the work became less materially luxurious.
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After being injured a second time, life became less about photography and more about understanding a voice.
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DG: So when that kind of irony became less popular, the painting took on new, unironic meanings.
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But soon after Delicious Vinyl's breakout year, Mr. Dike became less and less visible at the label.
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But over time, containing Eritrea became less and less tenable as a strategy for the Ethiopian government.
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From that point on, the messages became less frequent as the military campaign against ISIS stepped up.
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With single households on the rise in Japan, reliance on an inherited burial sites became less practical.
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Over time, however, that iteration of Republican conservatism became less salient, in large part because it won.
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He added that as journalists became more educated, they also became less connected to the broader community.
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But the widely followed auto analyst became less optimistic over the carmaker's shares, starting in May 2017.
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But it became less pressing with Mr. Trump's nomination of William P. Barr to be attorney general.
|
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Soon running the falls became less like a typical action-sports film and more like Mission Impossible.
|
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"Each day that the shutdown continued, the system became less safe," Pesiri-Dybvik said in an interview.
|
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Demand for ad-blocking should abate when messages became less disruptive and more relevant, an Opera spokeswoman said.
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"Risk factors that have been worrying us, have became less worrying in the last 24 hours," he said.
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It became less about waiting until my parents were ready and more about waiting until I was ready.
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In 14 out of 19 nations it polled between 2011 and 2013, views of China became less friendly.
|
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In 2016-17 every kind of mass public transport became less busy: buses, subways, commuter trains and trams.
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However, once the United States allowed for exports of light condensate in 2014, the facilities became less necessary.
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That changed as lobster became less abundant and started to be eaten by the finer people in society.
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But as I got older, porn became less of a shocking thrill and more of a necessary evil.
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"Risk factors that have been worrying us have became less worrying in the last 24 hours," Cossor said.
|
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Italian clubs became less eager to hire him and in 2000 he moved to Turkey to coach Fenerbahce.
|
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As the parties became less internally diverse, individual members of Congress delegated more power to their party leaders.
|
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Such shows became less antic, more pop, more ironic—with, say, people in Superman outfits making little speeches.
|
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The scientists did not, for example, track whether the volunteers became less impulsive in their actual daily lives.
|
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But the widely followed auto analyst became less optimistic over the carmaker's shares, starting in May last year.
|
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But as pledging continued, he seemed to get more tired, and he became less of his normal self.
|
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Fandom became less of a collection of islands and more of an all-encompassing, increasingly weird internet party.
|
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"Slowly but surely, they became less and less thoughtful about the people who worked for them," said Robinson.
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You know, as our presence grew digitally, our desire and our need to do that became less relevant.
|
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A hearing aid helped the Ballwin, Missouri, teen for a while, but it slowly became less and less effective.
|
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According to Robson, this abuse continued for seven years and became "less frequent" when he began puberty at 13.
|
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Iraq became less and less safe as war broke out—but Madlin and her husband decided to stay put.
|
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The anger went away, I became less depressed, and over time I even begin to feel periods of happiness.
|
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The model attracted scores of users, some of whom became less enthused by the deals over time, analysts say.
|
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While Sara Bronfman became less involved in subsequent years after starting a family, Clare remained hopelessly devoted to Raniere.
|
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In one study, people who sniffed oxytocin became less cooperative in a game if they were playing with strangers.
|
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English-medium news became less necessary for visitors when the internet let them browse their hometown papers from abroad.
|
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She said they drifted apart after a while and she became less involved in his career that was growing.
|
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Some exhibit planners began seeking other methods—including more sophisticated models—and exhibiting actual human remains became less prominent.
|
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As a performer, he became less reliable, often showing up late to concerts and interviews, or canceling all together.
|
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The hymns became less prominent as Mr Glass wove other music into the fabric of Mr van Hove's production.
|
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Over time, and with a kick from McCarthy, it became less evocative of those who perished there, or why.
|
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As the week went on, the festival became less about grime and more about hip hop and R&B.
|
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But in that study, after establishing a regular exercise routine, people became less sensitive to day-to-day anxiety.
|
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Adventure games like Tomb Raider instantly became less frustrating because you could move the camera independently of your character.
|
|
But over the past five years, the popular and democratically elected president gradually became less popular and less democratic.
|
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He continued to appear regularly on cable news, and his shots at the President became less qualified, more thoroughgoing.
|
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Yet it would be an unforgivable error if a safe homeland for Jews became less safe as a result.
|
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Walled enclosures became less useful once men invented explosives to blow them up and airplanes to fly over them.
|
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She became less of a part of my sister's and my world and more a part of my father's.
|
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At The Drive-In became less referential by the time they began writing what would become In/Casino/Out.
|
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For that period, the Democrats became less likely than Republicans to respond to surveys — what pollsters call differential nonresponse.
|
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Becoming a physician was always his path, but as time went by, he became less enamored with his profession.
|
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The centers also became less medically oriented and more community oriented, meaning less able to address very sick people.
|
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After that it went back to early April, but the payment — at least for poor Americans — became less generous.
|
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In the 1990s, Indian migration to Dallas soared, and friendship became less an act of desperation than of choice.
|
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Our struggle became less about plopping and more about wrestling, and it got loud and tearful, a genuine meltdown.
|
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As people moved to cities, and sanitation improved in both urban and rural areas, hookworm likely became less prevalent.
|
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Enslaved people's knowledge of the natural world, though rich and bountiful, became less applicable in a drastically altered environment.
|
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Her contributions became less traditional after she read about the criticism he received for $400 haircuts charged to his campaign.
|
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This is why many previously moderate Republicans didn't leave the party as it moved rightward — they just became less moderate.
|
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At the same time, as heavy industry declined in the West, trade-union membership fell and strikes became less common.
|
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Since she couldn't afford to prioritize her content by paying for sponsored posts, the platform became less critical to her.
|
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It was almost as if I became less worthy in their eyes, somehow flawed for wanting to call it quits.
|
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Those four strains also became less common among women in their early 20s, a group with much lower vaccination rates.
|
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Over time he became less keen on thinking of the mind only in terms of what happens inside the brain.
|
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Clinton's recent dip in the polls, as Democrats became less enthusiastic about answering surveys when she appeared to be struggling.
|
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But once we passed the cluster of houses in the protected bay, the lakefront became less developed and more wild.
|
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But in the days that followed, that feeling of worry lessened—that dark cloud on the horizon became less ominous.
|
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Many said they found the patients "inspiring", death became "less scary" and the experience made them think differently about life.
|
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But for Omni, ballooning storage prices pissed off users as on-demand became less afforable than a traditional storage unit.
|
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I was also raised with tiger parenting, but my parents became less authoritarian after my sister got into dental school.
|
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In other cases, animals evolved additional digits to compensate when their fingers became less specialized, or to broaden their hands.
|
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She raised her champagne flute to look at them through the bubbles, and their perfect social demeanor became less impressive.
|
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If learning became less of a burden, the use of technology would likely become less prevalent in a distracting way.
|
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As the dancers inched toward one another, taking parallel steps that gradually became less regimented, they swayed and swirled silkily.
|
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I grew up wearing hoodies and sneakers and baggy clothes, and then it became less O.K. to wear that stuff.
|
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Researchers found that as individuals in the study aged, they became less sensitive, with hypersensitivity sharply declining at age 40.
|
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Voters in cities with ranked-choice voting report that campaigns became less negative after ranked-choice systems went into place.
|
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"It became less about ordering that specific cocktail and more about just getting a good product all around," she tells Refinery29.
|
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But increasingly, as we looked at the landscape, that became less and less appealing and frankly, like, less and less realistic.
|
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Hearthstone's esports community rejoiced; they no longer had to account for the unaccountable, and automatic wins and losses became less common.
|
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Lee said signs of protectionism were popping up globally as monetary and fiscal policies became less effective at improving economic conditions.
|
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I became less all about Cortney and started to understand that what we put into life, we get out of it.
|
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That gave the upper hand to candidates favoured by the etablishment, even as the country as a whole became less conservative.
|
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As Europe became more secular, its economies prospered and Muslim rivals like the Ottomans slumped, studying Islam properly became less urgent.
|
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At first a DNA test revealed he was entirely Irish, but as the data set changed, he gradually became less Irish.
|
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The disappearance of Rooney can be readily seen in Tyson's work—his head movement became less sharp and then largely disappeared.
|
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Luckily, though, the whole thing became less annoying and more wholesome when Mara Wilson, Matilda herself, noticed and loved the participation.
|
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His knees were worn down and his appearances became less and less frequent, until he finally disappeared from WWE in 2014.
|
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At some point, the phantasmagorical became less central to him than the frightening prospects to be found in the real world.
|
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While this social revolution enabled Tunisia to become one of Africa's most literate and advanced countries, it also became less democratic.
|
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General Electric, which had been one of the most reliable sources of yield, just became less attractive after slashing its dividend.
|
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So for me, it became less about winning Olympic gold and more about proving everyone wrong by winning an Olympic medal.
|
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Then my 30s felt serious and stressful, and then I became less and less stressed as I passed into my 40s.
|
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The comedy became less about the difference between men and women and more about the specific circumstance of being Wanda Sykes.
|
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"Before 1720, the art of tortoiseshell was not truly perfected, and after 1760, the objects became less spectacular," Mr. Kugel said.
|
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Success meant that the headaches became less frequent and less intense, and that the patients grew more confident in handling them.
|
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If oil traders became less confident about further falls in prices, there was no sign of them positioning for a rebound.
|
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Carlo's compositions became less dense as his art evolved, with sometimes a single human or animal form as a central subject.
|
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But when under control, which, with time, became less and less a reality, he could be quite capable and even brilliant.
|
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Technology students became less interested in working for oil firms after oil prices crashed in 2014 and renewable energy gained in prominence.
|
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Slowly, as my my headaches and stomach pains became less frequent, I learned that running myself ragged was no way to live.
|
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With the postwar rise of the ballpoint pen, and then digital communication, the pencil became less and less central to everyday life.
|
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But the United States actually became less popular in six nations during that same period: China, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Poland and Lebanon.
|
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With the cumulative experience of Bel's three pieces in Crossing the Line, however, the non-virtuosity of the work became less appealing.
|
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So, they saw that a person's body became less reactive to their phobia, but didn't actually ask them: are you less afraid?
|
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The end result was the "Most Exclusive Club in the World" became less and less a club, and more simply an affiliation.
|
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Dame said he became less religious because he felt the churches he attended did not live up to the values they preached.
|
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Fortunately, it became less of a bummer after the Daily News inquired about the fine; the Department ultimately agreed to drop it.
|
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As each new trailer came out for either side, the talk became less about what Battleborn was, and more what it wasn't.
|
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Mullin always appreciated how Carnesecca — still, at 93, a patriarchal presence around St. John's — became less demanding in the face of adversity.
|
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Crisco, the solid hydrogenated cottonseed oil, rose to popularity in the U.S. during World War I when butter became less easily available.
|
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But she became less frenzied about production in recent years, she said, taking about seven years to complete a book of poems.
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We started off not talking much anyway, and then as the months went by, it became less until there was no talking.
|
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Life instantly became less about looking forward to family get-togethers and holidays, and more about arranging visits and liaising with lawyers.
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Initially a militant Zionist, she became less attached after Israeli independence in 1948, suspicious of nation-states and their abuses of power.
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After four months of exercise, those parts of the brain became less active during semantic-memory tests, which is a desirable outcome.
|
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The idea of "historical character" became less of a cliché to me, seeing what this kind of work meant to Washington residents.
|
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But as summer turned to fall, the meetings became less frequent and then stopped happening at all, according to a committee source.
|
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Learning disabilities also became less common, dropping 14.5% to affect 18.3% of the medical students by the end of the study period.
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That changed over time and since iOS 113 jailbreaks became less frequent, much less convenient, and not something easily accessible to everyone.
|
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Those businesses became less profitable after the financial crisis because regulators, eager to prevent further meltdowns, restricted banks' use of borrowed money.
|
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From the mid-1970s into the '80s, with the rise of women's liberation, the idea that women enjoyed sex became less revelatory.
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As I spent more time at the shelter, I found that I became less patient with human beings, even my sweet husband.
|
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Goldin was physically afraid of men for a long time after the beating, and her drug use became less and less controlled.
|
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I also became less skeptical of the idea that you could gain valuable knowledge from the act of caring for other people.
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Small businesses left in Obamacare's marketplace would likely face higher costs and fewer options as the market became less attractive to insurers.
|
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The dreams became less frequent after a couple of years—once bar and bat mitzvah season ended—but they didn't stop completely.
|
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XML, a markup language for recording data that's very similar to HTML, became less popular, while JSON, a JavaScript-based alternative, gained ground.
|
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In the past year, Nvidia became less a chipmaker than a catch-all computing company, producing high-powered graphics processing units, or GPUs.
|
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And the poem became less a poem about hope and being together and it was more a poem of warning, and a lament.
|
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One longitudinal study that followed thousands of Americans from age 41 to 50 found they became less neurotic and self-conscious with age.
|
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I decided to start following instructions—slathering on the mask only at night—and waited to see if my skin became less enraged.
|
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National Republicans became less fearful of their candidates' talking about illegal immigration at that point, and it was a topic in several races.
|
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In both cases, the gags became less funny as the comedians turned the projects into touring bands, appearing at festivals and making albums.
|
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In China, Chan says, 'sea turtles' had significant influence in the 2000s, but as the tech sector matured, their advantages became less unique.
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For example, frequency of sex became less important with age, and the amount of thought and effort invested in sex became more important.
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Eventually, the conversations became less formal, and relationships developed to the point where I could just pick up the phone to say hi.
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The spins became less frequent and better hidden and the right hand leads and swings were replaced with scientific, piston like straight strikes.
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Dyson, founded by entrepreneur James Dyson, said other cleaners became less energy efficient as their bags filled with dust, unlike its bagless cleaner.
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The proportion of people with chronic viral hepatitis infections that can be spread through contact with blood became less common or remained stable.
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A year later the "cost for Hepatitis C drugs became less expensive than in Europe," according to the largest U.S. pharmacy benefit manager.
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The 1990s is also when teacher wages began stagnating and the job became less lucrative than other careers that required a college degree.
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Over time, I became less interested in the war itself and further drawn towards the conditions that the civilians were forced to endure.
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With each of these mini successes, exercise became less of a stranglehold and more something I did because it made me feel good.
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Yet as the push kicks and snap kicks became less effective Takeru was able to threaten Komiyama far more with high round kicks.
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I became less of an introvert and it helped me find the techno scene, where I enjoyed the music and felt I belonged.
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Somehow, years removed from nights like the one I saw in that picture, 'going out' became less significant and less important for me.
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But after Mr. Trump's announcement last August that he would reimpose sanctions on Iran's petroleum industry, the SC Brilliant's voyages became less transparent.
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Illustration became less lucrative with the rise of image reproduction technology, but the expansion of railroads helped to fill the void in demand.
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As I thought about the new findings in light of the other evidence pointing to the value of education, they became less surprising.
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Old-fashioned badges became less important than experiences, particularly annual cookie sales, which were heralded as teaching money management and other business skills.
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At the same time, Brexit opponents became less inclined to settle on a compromise that they saw as the worst of both worlds.
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That defense became less plausible in 2012, after the German government spent millions of dollars to buy 11 hard drives from industry insiders.
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The measure of a soldier became less about their participation on a functional team and more about running two miles in 16 minutes.
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We had to put more and more deals in the emails and then just for the customer, it became less and less interesting.
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Over time, hospitals became less willing to grant abortion providers admitting privileges, endangering clinics, said Mallory Schwartz, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri.
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Suddenly, a story about someone remaining above the fray became less important for Heath than a story about someone willing to dive right in.
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And the researchers found that Medicaid patients as a whole became less likely to use the ER frequently after the ACA went into effect.
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Later, Moreno confirmed that Assange could stay if he became less of a headache, though it seems that the situation has continued to deteriorate.
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Women became emboldened about coming forward and companies became less concerned about protecting high-performing employees who had allegations of harassment leveled against them.
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The offense became less about instructing Newton what to do play to play and made him accountable for the options chosen with the scheme.
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Thanks in part to the EAW, the nickname has became less apt as, one by one, fugitives have been caught and sent back home.
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But at a certain point, getting better became less about improving strategies to solve the puzzles and more about learning to solve them faster.
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With generally improved sanitation following the first world war, public baths became less about hygiene and more about fun, and the lidos exemplified that.
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As Diakiese became less comfortable waiting to go on the counter, he began diving at Hooker with wild takedown attempts each time Hooker engaged.
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But such trades became less profitable as Canadian prices rose, and the appeal of buying MEG's oil production may have also diminished, he said.
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This deadline became less threatening in September, when Parliament passed a law requiring Mr. Johnson to seek another extension if a deal wasn't reached.
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Whether it ever got any better than that, whether Owen became less instinctive and burdened by expectations as he matured — that is another matter.
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Reports of the creature became less common following the alleged attacks in 2001, but the mystery surrounding the cryptid still keeps people talking today.
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From these videos, you begin to get a feel for how the genre became less of a subculture and more of an eye-sore.
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We'd sometimes travel back to visit family when I was little, but those trips became less and less frequent as we all got older.
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The relatively flat farmland became less flat, and the rolling hills less rolling and more jagged, as we chugged along into Croatia from Serbia.
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After the brief early '220s insurgency of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and the grunge bands passed, rock became less interested in innovating than in repeating.
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Through the 90s and early 2000s, hardcore continued to evolve, with new sub-genres popping up and bands became less tethered to its history.
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Without it, the whole thing became less convenient for travel because the books and pad would end up scattered all over the car floor.
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Over the years, the sneaker has became less of a product and more of a symbol of the intersection of sports, music, and fashion.
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"It became less about serious flamewars and more about fucking posting whatever you want," said former Something Awful administrator and moderator Kevin "Fragmaster" Bowen.
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Overall averages obscure a volatile mix of prices, with some drugs commanding escalating price tags, even as more common generic medications became less expensive.
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Nazir said investor interest in Malaysia had improved because of the economic comeback, and also as investors became less judgmental about non-economic matters.
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On each occasion, I've felt that the story needed context, and when people understood the context, the collusion side of it became less important.
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Over the last decade, hacking became less of a novelty and more of a fact of life for billions of people around the world.
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Whether by choice or an unconscious evolution, when he decided on his musical ambitions, Ed became less of a boy and more of a tank.
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When Whittaker stayed on Romero between his bursts of activity, Romero became far more hittable and these explosions became less frequent and far less dangerous.
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From the 1980s, as Congress started to fade as a political force, bribing its local representative became less of a sure thing for local crooks.
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"Somehow along the way those platforms became less personal, less intimate, and it became impossible to have this sense of real-time togetherness," Parker said.
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Sure enough, about two-thirds of the way through the speech, Trump pivoted and it became less about the graduates and all about–who else?
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Muslim jokes about whether there would be Wi-Fi in internment camps and the permissibility of duck faces on Muslim IDs quickly became less funny.
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Democrats became less likely to favor increasing the federal minimum wage to $15, as Republicans grew less apt to favor lowering the corporate tax rate.
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As for Mooch, Trump initially found his crude quotes to Lizza amusing, but he became less thrilled about it as the negative coverage piled on.
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As such alternatives were defeated or retreated from the world stage, the salience of democracy as a defining feature of a polity became less important.
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"While David's Bridal used to be the dominant force in bridal outfitting, it gradually became less relevant," said Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail.
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"During the manufacturing process the vaccine became less effective in eliciting a good immune response," said Hensley, a viral immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
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You can sort of imagine why cannibalism became less frequent as the ages passed—it wasn't going to get you anywhere with these new guys.
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Tramp art waned in the US as cigars lost market share to cigarettes, and cigar boxes that formed the base materials became less readily available.
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The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
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Once I graduated and worked at a law firm, I would trot out my dresses every now and then, but it became less and less.
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They also called on volunteers to supplement those efforts, but over time, Nsarko said, those volunteers became less and less engaged in those outreach efforts.
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Same-sex couples used more affection and humor while discussing their disagreements, became less agitated and calmed down more quickly afterward than different-sex couples.
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Our email exchanges became less frequent, and in the fall of 2012, while I was in Chicago attending graduate school, Neil stopped responding to me.
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As Donald Trump's rockets rained down on Soleimani's convoy, the world instantly became more dangerous and America's role in the Middle East became less certain.
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But in the interest of accelerating operations, environmental assessments became less detailed, with very little input from environmental agencies and the public, the analysts said.
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He became less certain that the accomplishment of successfully kayaking the falls outweighed the potential downside of nearly every other outcome, once in the water.
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Her mother, Michelle Kramer, 48, tells PEOPLE that as the two's nine-year relationship progressed, communication between the mother and daughter became less and less frequent.
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Pandering to the Base: With the exception of Mr. Paul, every senator became less congenial with members of the opposite party once the presidential campaign began.
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Daniel Hungerman from the University of Notre Dame found that all-white congregations became less charitable as the share of black residents in the community rose.
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Sometimes you could tell these readers to take a hike, but as the newspaper business declined it became less advisable to treat readers as an annoyance.
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CEOs became less optimistic about the U.S. economy as the Trump administration ratcheted up trade tensions with key partners, according to the latest Business Roundtable survey.
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It seems to me that when De Forest became what his fans like about him — amiable, kooky, and funny — he became less interesting and even predictable.
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And with fewer people outside, neighborhoods also became less safe because we lost the benefit of having "eyes on the street" most hours of the day.
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The odd paradox is that as his poetry earned him greater recognition for its rigorous innovations, his visual art became less distinctive, if not altogether flaccid.
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Sure, the cellulite was still there, but I became less and less concerned about my dimpled ass and thighs as my growing belly balanced it out.
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Designing a clothing line became less about earning money and more about dedicating himself to a community — one that he thought would turn into future consumers.
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The moment highlighted the lack of preparation for officials and checks only became less frequent after a FIFA referees' briefing on VAR before the quarter-finals.
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But it slipped 0.4% on Thursday to 97.29, its lowest in a week as investors became less convinced that more rate cuts were off the table.
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Satellite and cable providers soon incorporated DVR capabilities as an option for their subscribers, and it became less popular to buy the TiVo stand-alone device.
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Leggings would become a rare sight until the mid-aughts, when they became less of a must-have and more of a controversial piece of clothing.
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After a childhood on ice skates and inline skates, I thought I could wake up early and practice until I became less rusty on quad skates.
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Nor did white attitudes change overnight; while explicit prejudice toward all groups became less popular, stereotypes about minorities persist and affect the way whites treat minorities.
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At the same time, the Gherkin became less visible, almost enclosed in a thicket of other skyscrapers that is only going to grow in coming years.
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"As the labor market tightened and unemployed workers found jobs faster, the typical labor force participant became less likely to leave the labor force," he said.
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But many of those businesses have since scaled back or folded as enthusiasts became less nervous about potential gun legislation and less anxious to stock up.
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Park-goers became less self-centred and more positive: use of the word "me" dropped by 38%; negative words like "no", "not" and "don't" also fell.
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Like Beilein, he said he understood the thinking behind the move, but with the off-week looming, he became less sure it was the right call.
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Lighting technicians experimented to achieve the best effect: too bright, and the atmosphere became less menacing; too dim, and the details of the clothing were obscured.
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It became less about trying to create wokeness and more about trying to offer us a hero out of this turmoil, to offer escape and joy.
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As those who might have watched Rent with starry-eyed fantasies of chasing an artistic dream got older, some became less sympathetic with the scrappy vagabonds.
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"You just became less and less able to go into the system and run competitive races with the spending limits, which were just too low," Wertheimer says.
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Most importantly, the CIA I joined praised expertise, something that became less important as the agency hunkered down and bent over backward to please the White House.
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Though the study can't answer why people became less afraid of GMOs, the authors point to previous research suggesting that labels give consumers a sense of control.
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Sick visits also became less common over the study period, with the average number of "problem-based" visits dropping from 22 for every 23 enrollees to 22020.
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Franco's domestic policies became less repressive after Spain became a major tourist destination in the 1960s, although political opposition was still banned and censorship remained in force.
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Over time, Flash became less popular and dedicated Flash-based game websites were often deleted once they had aged past the release they were designed to promote.
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But it became less important for me to prove I could excel in a testosterone-charged environment and more vital that I reach for a higher purpose.
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The number of older adults taking at least one prescription medication or dietary supplement rose between 22011 and 22012, while over-the-counter medications became less prevalent.
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The researchers theorized that while the women became less sensitized to social pain, the ibuprofen interrupted something else in the men: their tendency to suppress emotional pain.
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Gemma Catney at the University of Liverpool has shown that every ethnic minority became less segregated between 2001 and 242 (the two most recent British census years).
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"I became less interested in populating my images and more interested in traces of the human without human presence," Cole wrote, in 2015, of his photography process.
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But after competitor Priceline's management team gave downbeat guidance in their earnings report, the "Mad Money" host became less certain about the strength of the travel arena.
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The practice became less popular with the advent of digital photography, but acclaimed fashion photographer Miles Aldridge still uses film and takes Polaroids to document his shoots.
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Differences in depression scores based on age and income were also more pronounced one year before death, and became less pronounced closer to death, the study found.
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But in the past year or so, as Nigeria's president launched a renewed military offensive against the group, Boko Haram's operations became less organized and more opportunistic.
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It became a one-liner to say that Charley was "clueless" and I was "hopeless," but as time wore on, the joke became less and less funny.
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It became less a dark, subversive take on the fantasy genre, and more a fanservice machine geared towards delivering a satisfying ending for its millions of fans.
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As the rounds progressed Cormier ate more and more blows between successful closings of the distance, and became less effective when he got there as a result.
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In lab experiments, people who slept only five hours night for one week became less sensitive to insulin, which makes it harder to maintain blood sugar levels.
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As I got older, my witchcraft became less about trying to cause specific outcomes and more focused on helping me become a more purposeful and compassionate person.
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"It became less about, like, giving out peanut butter sandwiches and more about, like, These are incredible people, and I'm learning a lot from them," he said.
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Zhihu had tried to keep the site civil while opening up to new users, but as questions became less sophisticated, there was less room for nuanced conversation.
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For many users, Neopets became less about the pets, and more about the shared community that they were building together — such was the power of the forums.
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They asked if childcare providers would still want to pay a commission on every child they enrolled through Wonderschool if the company&aposs service became less personal.
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When it became less popular, however, she claimed to have been misled, even though she and her colleagues ignored those of us opposing the original war resolution.
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Over the hours I spent honoring Sachs's customs, taking the lead of the tea master, each peculiarity became less bizarre and more natural in this constructed world.
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The landscape painters became less inclined to smooth out compositional features to accord with reigning conventions of pictorial harmony, while photographers, for their part, aimed for painterly effects.
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But the location check-in quickly became a standard feature among other apps like Instagram and Facebook, and users became less interested in the gamelike aspect of Foursquare.
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Paik and others came to CTL for help with their work, and as their installations aged, shaping the future of media became less important than preserving its past.
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Second, an individual central bank that rapidly expanded its balance sheet might face the problem of a currency decline, as international investors became less willing to hold it.
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Maybe it's a coincidence, and maybe it's because I became more annoying over time, but Nu became less responsive and open as Twitter grew bigger and less cool.
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But stock prices did not rise as much in the second half of the year as the synergies were less obvious and investors became less comfortable with them.
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Since then, along with the reported absorption of the tips towards drivers' base pay, Boggs felt that there were myriad reasons why the work opportunity became less advantageous.
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Rather, super-woke people became even less likely to vote Republican than they were two years ago, and non-woke people also became less likely to vote Republican.
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What started as an extension of a makeup hobby, over time became less about traditional ideas of drag glamour or beauty and more about transformations of all kinds.
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The signs did not scare away the beggars but they did educate visitors, who became less inclined to give, leading to reduced donations to the impersonators, he said.
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"When managers put in lots of evening and weekend hours, their employees started matching the behavior and became less engaged in their jobs, according to surveys," notes Irwin.
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Offshore projects, which are more costly than onshore work and take years to develop, became less attractive after oil prices fell to below $30 a barrel in 2016.
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But as Jews increasingly didn't need to change their names to be successful, Superman's dual identity became less of a potent metaphor and more of a fun gimmick.
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His longtime publicist couldn't steer the conversation away from the story, and eventually became less concerned about his career recovering and more worried about Oberst's declining mental state.
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In particular, when managers put in lots of evening and weekend hours, their employees started matching the behavior and became less engaged in their jobs, according to surveys.
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The mortgage servicing side of the industry became "less concentrated" by 2012 as the share of loans serviced by nonbank players rose, a government report concluded in 20083.
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Some analysts point out that Mubarak became less military-minded over time, and perhaps Sisi, who seems to have no weakness for corruption, will develop in positive ways.
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But ETNs became less popular after the financial crash, based on the theoretical risk that a failure like Lehman Brothers could expose ETN investors to severe credit risk.
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But in the second half, as the musical numbers became less relentless and the characters' problems more real, I found myself falling under the "La La Land" spell.
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Adolescent girls in those areas also became less likely to want to be housewives — and the gap in educational attainment between young boys and young girls completely closed.
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In lab experiments, people who slept only five hours a night for one week became less sensitive to insulin, which makes it harder to maintain blood sugar levels.
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What that would translate to in practical terms, though, became less clear for a central bank that only a few months earlier was pointing to four hikes in 2019.
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When we asked people with a fixed view of personality to read these articles, they became less likely to interpret rejections as an indication of a permanent, fatal deficiency.
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As a result, in some ways, the Obamas' marriage and family life became less hectic in the White House compared to the "years of tough campaigning," the Guardian reported.
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Last year, an Emory University study found that mice became less fearful when MDMA was injected directly into their amygdalas, an area of the brain that controls fear response.
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I'd always been fit, but my time at the gym became less about losing weight and more about giving myself a break from the constant grief I was feeling.
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Ironically while the logo itself became more geometric, the type became less so (most visible with the clipped bars and rather off-kilter counters in the p and b).
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Fortunately, such an accidental no-deal Brexit became less likely this week—because MPs, most of whom rightly see it as a catastrophe, will now have a greater say.
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But as this "Cambrian explosion" of apps unfolded, Josh, a product manager at Zazzle at the time, saw users became less engaged under the weight of all the apps.
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After the Soviet era crumbled and Ukraine picked through its own pieces of the rubble, the statues became less objects of reverence and more clunky reminders of past struggle.
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Adolescent girls in those areas became less likely to want to be housewives, too — and also more likely to say they could see themselves as serving in elected office.
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Per Rolling Stone, although Efron was reluctant about pursuing the arts at first, he became less hesitant after his piano teacher encouraged him to audition for musical-theater roles.
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Pessimistic investors who predicted the whole system would blow up lost their shirts, and so became less and less willing to bet against the authorities eventually figuring it out.
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And, after Greenwald was exposed to Snowden and his trove, he became less supportive of the WikiLeaks approach, which typically involves publishing data in bulk, without curating or redaction.
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The 211ers went 218-23 in Hinkie's tenure and his position within the front office became less secure when the team brought in veteran executive Jerry Colangelo in December.
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But there's a reason more world travelers are choosing Spain over the US these days, and it's not because the Grand Canyon became less grand in the past year.
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King lost many white supporters when, in the last few years of his life, his eyes were opened to America's commitment to racism, and his rhetoric became less hopeful.
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It became less reliant on piped gas from Russia just at the moment when Moscow, reeling from the shale gas boom, was desperate for a natural gas export deal.
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As of March 220, there were 230 million Americans who already receive subsidies under Obamacare who would have to pay more out of pocket if the credits became less generous.
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Like I said, there were a lot of other factors, but certainly once I wasn't happy in the relationship, I became less respectful of what my partner wanted, lifestyle-wise.
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The absurdist mantle was taken up by such figures as Harold Pinter, Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard and, with each new play and each performance, became less hideous and iconoclastic.
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Berry left the band soon after Polly Wog Stew's release, a combination of drug issues and disinterest: "I became less and less interested and started missing rehearsals," he told Spin.
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Back then, people started off creating realistic, verisimilitudinous depictions in sculpted portraits, but eventually became less concerned with rendering an exact physical likeness, conveying instead qualities like status and character.
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As a result of these advances, fashion became more accessible to all, and men's-wear trends became less formal and indicative of social background during the years between the wars.
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As the first rungs of the economic ladder became more slippery, young adults began to delay major steps into adulthood and became less likely to relocate for college or careers.
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With postwar economic growth and the rise of corporate culture, ie households became less common, while apartment-dwelling nuclear households—consisting of a salaryman, a housewife, and their children—proliferated.
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General stores became less common after the 1920s, but throughout the decade, they were still popular for various goods for farmers and industrial workers, as well as equipment and food.
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Disasters sometimes change rank depending on new information—between 210 and 2000 "public unrest" became less likely, somehow—but the overall list of disasters is generally the same each time.
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But the victory of Republican candidate Trump, who opposes regulations on gun ownership, abruptly undercut demand as people became less worried the government would curtail their ability to purchase firearms.
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He continued to do session work, and later played with Tom Paxton and Art Garfunkel, among others, but he became less active as the 1990s gave way to the 2000s.
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But beginning in 85033, after Trump and his officials weakened the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the VDOT became less and less responsive to pursuing responsible conservation measures in Hampton Roads.
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Lupercalia was celebrated for centuries in the middle of February and eventually, as the Roman Empire became less pagan and more Christian, was transformed into a celebration honoring St. Valentine.
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The program became less relevant as the Russians increased their presence in Syria, targeting and badly weakening the C.I.A.-backed rebels, who were the most capable of the opposition fighters.
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After volunteers were injected with psilocybin, the parts of their brain associated with emotional thinking became more active, while the introspective, self-conscious part of their brain became less active.
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During the 2016 primaries, when Professor Cassino asked voters questions designed to remind them that many women now earn more than men, men became less likely to support Mrs. Clinton.
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Airlines were concerned about the high cost of fuel, their single biggest expense after labor, and pushed for fuel-saving options, but when prices cratered their needs became less urgent.
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He said the trading landscape had changed since the 2008 global financial crisis when banks became less willing to lend to trading houses and after their capital requirements were tightened.
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When he came back to Morgan Stanley, he took on an advisory role for the next several years, and became less involved in the day-to-day operation of PDT.
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It's a book that on its face doesn't relate to the Court but, according to Lithwick, is crucial to understanding how it became less of a small-d democratic institution.
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Of course, as the years dragged and there were more and more attacks by the Afghan police and army against US and UK troops, the training became less and less serious.
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But when John Thorne could spend a whole chapter on his quest for the perfect crisssinnkch of excellent toast, and I really cared, the lure of such rules became less attractive.
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This was a task easier said than done; as Mandujano noted, when the school initially became more expensive, it also became less diverse, a trend that's been reversed in recent years.
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They became less likely to consider voting Republican after 1994, when the state's Republican governor, Pete Wilson, championed Proposition 187, a ballot initiative aimed at eliminating public benefits for undocumented immigrants.
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Interestingly, in the paper by Mr. Prior, Gaurav Sood and Kabir Khanna, the cash payments became less effective at coaxing an accurate answer if the question mentioned the president by name.
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Landlords could increase the rent they charged if the number of tenants dropped in their building, because with fewer defecators to pad an owner's income, running the property became less profitable.
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The November election of Republican Trump, who opposes regulations on gun ownership, abruptly undercut demand for guns as people became less worried the government would curtail their ability to purchase firearms.
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After the repeal, "local banks increasingly began to invest in risky Wall Street trading and speculation and became less inclined to make low-interest loans to small businesses," his website claims.
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The book became less relevant by the mid-'60s, as the rise of the civil rights movement and the fight for equal access diminished the popularity of the Jim Crow staple.
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And in the years since, Digimon became less of a Pokémon competitor and more of a cult concern for a small audience of faithful followers, its games slowly but surely improved.
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Gradually some of these wolves became less afraid of people, and they could get closer and eat more and have more puppies, which carried whatever DNA made the wolves less fearful.
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That trend continued even as she became less of a force on the pop charts — the more creative control she had, the more Carey worked within hip-hop and R&B.
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As the pressure on household incomes increased, the prospects for consumer spending became more uncertain, and companies became less enthusiastic about investing in new plants and equipment, feeding into the cycle.
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According to work by Gemma Catney now of Queens' University Belfast, between 2001 and 2011 (the two most recent British census years) every ethnic minority except the Chinese became less segregated.
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The 23-year-old was a stud for the Cleveland Browns when he was on the field ... but that became less frequent when he faced several suspensions for off-field incidents.
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On June 9, however, the picture became less clear as the election resulted in a hung parliament, meaning the future of Theresa May's leadership and Brexit negotiations were thrown into doubt.
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As I worked on it, and when I read it now, the book became less about my life and more about inspiring others who have a dream of being the best.
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Without him, foreigners, whose monthly tuition fees pay the bills, became less frequent, and when the snacks that Terere left behind for the kids began to diminish, their attendance followed suit.
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He remained enormously popular overseas — Bono paused a U2 concert in Toronto in July 2015 to publicly salute Peres, who was in the audience — but became less and less influential at home.
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As Little Joe became more popular and we began to print more issues, the Risograph became less cost-effective, so we made the difficult decision to start printing with a lithograph printer.
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The Middle East became less rather than more stable in 212, with an intensifying dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran, tensions between Qatar and its neighbours, and the ongoing war in Yemen.
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But the net effect is that the public and political leaders became less friendly to aggressive intervention in the economy, believing that the government was too inept and corrupt to be trusted.
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The story also implied that the company became less focused on the breakthrough products Ive is known for and more focused on its operations and other initiatives under CEO Tim Cook's leadership.
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Reading story after story of peers and employees speaking to his professional character, what Camara had to say about those who "demand the most" at the Golden Globes became less than surprising.
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The November election of Republican candidate Trump, who opposes regulations on gun ownership, abruptly undercut demand for guns as people became less worried the government would curtail their ability to purchase firearms.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - - Deaths among children and adolescents became less common between 22017 and 2015, but not all countries benefited equally from the improvements, according to a new analysis.
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Our frequent emailing became less so, and on June 6, 2011, she sent me a final note, a single sentence with a misspelling, telling me that Lincecum had recorded his 1,000th strikeout.
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"Consumer perception dropped almost immediately," said YouGov BrandIndex CEO Ted Marzilli, who added that the statistically significant drop in purchase consideration data showed that consumers became less keen to buy from Starbucks.
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At the same time, as competing blocks advanced, the U.S. became less powerful so it is now more inclined to view its relations with other countries through a zero-sum game lens.
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It became trickier down the line as he turned on his family, but unfortunately his part also became less significant in the scripts, which does give you slightly less to go on.
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The U.S. became less democratic between 2015 and 2017, "stemming primarily from weakening constraints on the executive," in the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index, published at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — By the time the furor over a presidential aide accused of spousal abuse reached a second week, the White House account of what happened became less clear, not more.
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The company published a lengthy memo in December saying that smartphone batteries became less effective over time and that its software was intended to prevent iPhones with older batteries from unexpected shutdowns.
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"Once the landscape was stabilized, perhaps these social anchors became less important," said Elisabeth Hildebrand, the paper's lead author and an associate professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York.
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Although growth has slowed, from about 10 percent a year at the decade's start to less than 7 percent now, part of that slowdown was inevitable, as the country became less poor.
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The group text continued and became less about emergency supplies, and more about who wanted to go in on a beef share later and if anyone was around for dinner on Sunday.
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The future became less a thing we create through our present-day choices or hopes for humankind than a predestined scenario we bet on with our venture capital but arrive at passively.
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Some political commentators had speculated that Mr. Trump's focus on the magnitude of his support would fade once he took office, as the election became less important than the issues facing him.
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Under her leadership, duplicate reviews between the New York Times's daily paper and the Book Review became less common, women received more review bylines, and books by women were reviewed more often.
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While sexism and the craft world's segregation from the fine art world affected her career, Tawney also became less productive in the '70s as she committed herself to Buddhism and Siddha Yoga.
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They became less focused on arrests, which was desirable from his standpoint because the public might see that and be more willing to trust the police, and more focused on preventing victimhood.
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But Res, who wrote about her experiences in her book, All Alone on the 68th Floor: How One Woman Changed the Face of Construction, said Trump became less approachable and accessible over time.
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As "private" investors became less necessary for the financing of public infrastructure, states began competing with one another for the "franchise tax" revenue that comes by charging a fee for granting corporate charters.
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The possibility of Mr. Trump in the Oval Office — an outcome that once seemed fanciful — became less remote on Tuesday night when his main challenger, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, quit the race.
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At a certain point, the memes became less about owning the president and more about making as little sense as possible, which is, you know, how things often go on Twitter dot com.
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Then amid tighter regulations requiring tamper resistant liquid nicotine packaging, poisonings became less common among young kids from 2015 to 2016, when slightly more than 8 kids in every 100,0000 ingested liquid nicotine.
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That was the start of a roughly two-minute exchange on live television that suddenly became less about the presidential candidates and more about a personal friction between Mr. Gingrich and Ms. Kelly.
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Over the decades, architectural Modernism became less popular, perceived as too dogmatic — but Niemeyer continued to work, finding newfound appreciation in the years before his death at the age of 104 in 2012.
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"Going to grad school became less of a priority for so many students," said Stuart Zweben, co-author of the survey and professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at Ohio State University.
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Waytz pointed to research that found National Basketball Association referees became less racially biased once their propensity to call more fouls on black players were exposed by previous studies and widespread media coverage.
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Slowly, our discussion became less about money and more about how we wanted to use the money we had for this entirely new stage in our lives as a couple, as parents, as Californians.
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But models like Zulily's became less popular as tons of new deal sites flooded consumers' email inboxes, while competition and a post-recession economic turnaround led to less quality excess inventory to go around.
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But as the game approached its climax, this became less important, and I sped through these scenes in order to head into battle and see the next major twist or turn in the story.
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Since President-elect Trump won, the Dow Jones industrial average reached a new all-time high as investors digested the news and became less fearful on the future path of the world's biggest economy.
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But the Hogan case became less about who's a public figure and more about the ways in which the Internet has allowed our private information to be made public in ways we didn't intend.
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Food and drink, acknowledged as social lubricants, became less and less a part of the daily life of members of the Senate (a group whose demographic (older and stressed) particularly needed to cut back).
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Our small business started as a way to supplement our family income, but as our business grew, it became less of a way to supplement other income and more of a way of life.
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A close friend in Indiana, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Sally became less available before she left and curiously did not confide in her friends that she intended to move to Morocco.
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Over the course of the next 10 years, the eccentricities of my gait became less pronounced, and only the most observant person could tell that I moved a little differently than the average person.
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The handful of owners who succeeded the originals were careful to preserve its Victorian atmosphere, though that became less of a choice than an obligation when the interior was declared a landmark in 1975.
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Friends said Wojnarowicz got angrier the closer he got to death, but all that anger became compressed, and the work became less like a raging wildfire and more like the core of a flame.
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But the Shakers' new recruits declined as American life became less agrarian and religious — and as the rise of social services gave poor children other options — and, of course, members themselves could not reproduce.
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For example, during the 85033 drought in Ethiopia, communities that Mercy Corps reached through a USAID-funded Feed the Future resilience program became less vulnerable to poverty than communities not reached by the program.
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The first was that "people who were lonelier became less effectively committed to their organization," meaning they cared less and were not motivated to work as hard which lowered performance, she explained to CNBC.
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The vague assumption most of us here carry over from schooldays is that the "original" Brits were white, then the slave trade, empire and postwar immigration happened, at which point we became less white.
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The result was that the cells became less likely to destroy themselves through a process called apoptosis (programmed cell death), which organisms often use as a kind of quality control system for eliminating defective tissue.
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That may be why, once he pressured you to "give" him sex, he became less interested — because (forgive me) once he checked off your box, he immediately saw you as having less value to him.
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As the white supremacists of the self-described alt-right rose and became a major political force, the escapist fantasy of the plucky teen hero who can save us all became less and less appealing.
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It became less music to fuck to and more music to preen and posture to—the soundtrack for sessions spent perfecting quiffs in hotel mirrors, to be played through bluetooth speakers while discussing thigh gaps.
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In other words, when money was added to the equation, questions about the economy became less like asking people which football team they thought was best, and more like asking them to place a wager.
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As I fell deeper into that mirror in my early teen years, spending hours designing characters in online games and building lives for them, it became less obvious to me which ones of us mattered.
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That became less attractive after a European Union deal with Turkey to halt the flow which sees all undocumented migrants and refugees arriving in Greece sent back to Turkey if their asylum applications are rejected.
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In this edition, novelist Lauren Mechling (whose new book, How Could She, comes out tomorrow) writes about how her phobia of friend groups became less harrowing when she...made an Instagram account devoted to clogs?
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It became less active when he told them that a color grid they were looking at was black and white, and more active when he told them a black and white grid was in color.
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Another study, by the political scientist Matto Mildenberger and the geographer Anthony Leiserowitz, has found "no evidence" that people became less attuned to climate change when their economic prospects dwindled after the 2008 financial crisis.
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But the answers to that question (educational disparities and the opioid crisis, among others) quickly became less interesting to me than the individuality and daily gains and setbacks of the factory's owner, Anita-Maria Quillen.
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"It's a compromise that removes the product that most Juul users are using today — but just as when mango [flavor] became less available, it opens the door to what they will use tomorrow," said Myers.
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As the city morphed into a financial hub, the kolis have been squeezed into smaller spaces to make way for high-rise buildings and business districts, while the docks became less critical to the economy.
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The iPhone improved substantially over the years, but as the i-marvels piled up, the incremental improvements that motivated people to buy a new phone every two years or so became less and less significant.
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Somewhere along his butt-selfie posting journey — Mr. Outdoors takes many of the photos himself, though some are taken by a (very close) friend — Mr. Outdoors became less about the person and more about the idea.
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Parts of western Libya became less welcoming after Islamist suicide bombings began in 2015 — another of Fatma's brothers was detained in Misrata after a video surfaced where he voiced support for Ansar al-Shariya, she said.
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The crackdown was a coordinated effort, a textbook example of the kind of high-profile Mafia busts Americans saw often in the past, but that became less common as organized crime lost influence over the decades.
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We recorded the brain activity of pairs of individuals who were making financial decisions together, and found that when a duo disagreed, their brains immediately became less sensitive to the information presented by the other person.
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But, during the primaries, he did not publicly distance himself from Johnson even as the President became less and less popular, and activists gradually came to see Humphrey as the hapless face of a failing establishment.
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Later, as her work became less surreal and more resonant, she became known for her sparse dialogue; brief, seemingly disjointed scenes; emotionally fraught, often threatening circumstances; and her use of strikingly suggestive set designs and choreography.
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As human beings were able to look down upon the earth, rather than exclusively upward toward the sky, the relationship between the two — each in the presence of the other — became less predominantly horizontal than vertical.
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But having one of the most prominent faces of Obamacare at the head of the organization became less of an asset after President Donald Trump took office seeking to wipe out his predecessor's health care legacy.
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In 22009, Mr. Cohen released "Songs of Love and Hate," which contained the cryptic and frequently covered "Famous Blue Raincoat," but after that his production began to tail off, and his live performances became less frequent.
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A 35-year comparison between Hong Kong (which hasn't executed anyone since 1966) and Singapore (where executions became commonplace during the mid 90s, then became less frequent) found no connection between the death penalty and murder rates.
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The future that the band built on The Locust would eventually catch up with them, though, as it soon became less strange to hear hardcore and grindcore bands using keyboards and synthesizers as part of their attack.
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After a tight ballgame became less tight with back-to-back home runs in the seventh, our man snagged the 14th homer—and big insurance run—off the bat of rookie phenom Gary Sanchez in the eighth.
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On the flip side, 81 percent of employees would switch companies for the same pay if their next employer was more empathetic, and 79 percent would consider leaving their job if their current employer became less empathetic.
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Much like video killed the radio star, people began finding bands on their own online, and discovering a music act in a live setting lost a bit of its power as it became less and less necessary.
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While keeping mom at home would have been nice, in reality, as her dementia advanced, the benefits for her of being at home decreased as she became less able to recognize her own home and get out.
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In these canvases, and with "Composition à la main et aux chapeaux" (1927), I became less interested in Léger's paintings as they seemed to prefigure the use of the simulacral culture of advertising typical of Pop Art.
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In addition to an increased control over her sexuality and the functional changes she's experienced, Lana said that she became less stimulated by visual depictions of sex; after she began HRT, pornography lost the allure it once had.
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It is impossible to attribute the changes to Clinton entirely, because American favorability actually improved in a majority of polled countries after she left office and the United States became less popular in six countries during her tenure.
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Speculative oil traders also became less confident of higher oil prices, cutting their net long U.S. crude futures and options positions for a second consecutive week last week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
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But the closer analogue for today's hearings — even though the charges were very different — might be the 1998-99 Bill Clinton impeachment, where the political and media arguments ultimately became less about what happened than whether to care.
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Soon, the Salvadoran army reported it had begun disbanding the death squads, and U.S. aid continued to flow as human rights abuses became less frequent in a civil war that stretched many more years into Bush's own presidency.
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Meanwhile, the military lost access to the country's most elite schools, an entire generation of students became less likely to serve, and a policy that unfairly discriminated against gay and lesbian service members remained in effect far too long.
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But as the Bank of Russia started cutting rates this year, while the U.S. Fed increased its own rate, returns from OFZ ownership became less lucrative, especially after the rouble pared gains and risks of new western sanctions increased.
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In recent months, however, on-camera press briefings became less common, as Spicer turned his attention to communication director duties and controversies mounted around the investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the presidential race.
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They merely get better with scale; the more that people bought digital cameras, the more manufacturers could invest in making better sensors, which became less expensive and offered better resolution, which in turn spurred sales, and on and on.
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Over time, General Assembly became less of a consumer facing business and transitioned into one that was serving primarily business clients — which means access to Adecco Group's over 100,000 businesses is a big boon to the company's continued expansion plans.
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And as the early impassioned denouncements in this Trump discussion slowly deflated during the parliamentary debate, like a punctured football being booted around a school playground, it gradually became less and less likely that any action would be taken against him.
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In various scenarios, including when computers were used to ask for help — and when communication between bystanders is difficult, such as in an online video — as the number of people in the groups increased, each individual became less likely to help.
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The sisters' cultural appropriation of Black women that had been apparent over the years became less blurry and more blatant when Black artists and designers straight called out Khloe Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner for ripping off their designs.
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Fitch, one of two rating firms that rate South Africa's credit score just one notch above junk, said the reshuffle could weaken public finances and standards of governance if the fiscal consolidation championed by Gordhan became less of a priority.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean consumers became less optimistic about the local economy in August, a central bank survey showed on Friday, as worries about the government's latest measures to cool housing debt and flaring U.S.-North Korea tensions pressured sentiment.
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Crude prices hit a 2019 high above $69 a barrel on the prospect that more sanctions against Iran and further Venezuelan disruptions could deepen an OPEC-led supply cut, and as the market became less worried that demand may slow.
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In the past, people used to be more explicit with their biases, but during the 20th century, when it became less socially acceptable to exhibit bias, such things like prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination became more subtle (automatic, ambiguous, and ambivalent).
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An Economist–YouGov poll found 2628 percent of those surveyed say the U.S. became less respected in the world in the last year, while 28503 said they think the U.S. became more respected in the world over the last year.
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Between 2006 and 2014, seven of the 11 largest metro areas became less affordable, as rents grew at a faster rate than salaries and more renters entered the market, according to a report by the Furman Center and Capital One.
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She rightly condemns the changes in recent decades as the social welfare state has been rolled back and the European Union became less democratic and more "technocratic," and she sees the rise of the far right today as a response.
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They tested this on ferrets, who had been vaccinated against the flu, and found the ones who contracted measles became less immune and had more severe symptoms when exposed to the flu infection, compared to the ones who didn't get measles.
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The neo-Classical opulence and gilt of the Louis XVI look was giving way to a slightly subdued version of itself — carvings on wooden furniture became less intricate, cotton was favored over silk, and the use of gold leaf was minimized.
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The answer became less clear on Tuesday when the Trump administration announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects from deportation about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came over as children — also known as Dreamers.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumer morale cooled slightly heading into June to hit its lowest level in more than two years as shoppers became less willing to buy and more downbeat about the growth outlook of Europe's largest economy, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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But after reading more about the program he became less upbeat, saying that AlphaGo appeared able to imitate human intuition to a certain degree and predicting that artificial intelligence would eventually surpass humans in Go. AlphaGo posed Mr. Lee a unique challenge.
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Mouse studies have found that bright light at inappropriate times of day leads to depression-like behaviors (the mice became less interested in sugar and quickly gave up when challenged with a forced swimming test—a common measure of despair in mice).
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But within that, a surprising pattern emerged: Those who watched porn at least once a week actually became more religious in the six years between the data collection points, while those who only watched a few times per month became less religious.
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By the time I was confronted with algebra in eighth grade, math became less of a required subject we were forced to master, and more of a bridge between our two worlds, and between my Chinese home life and outside American life.
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He and others said that executives at the studio had, at best, mixed feelings about proceeding, and as time went on and Mr. Murphy became too old to play the role of a 9003-year-old, it became less of a priority.
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Everything about that story clutched at my heart, while the broader time-travel stakes and narrative diminished in effect; I became less concerned with the overarching conceit than with the story of these young women arguing over what love and honesty demand.
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"The narrative became less about whether it was right or wrong on economics, but more about the political narrative, the way Modi was able to shape it," said Harsh Pant, a professor of international relations specializing in India at King's College in London.
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Gervais wasn't bad in some of his introductions of other presenters (as when he joked about how Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer acted as if they'd never had a friend before), but as the show went on, he became less and less of a presence.
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As the eighteenth century came to a close, and a culture of gentility moved through the American South, rough-and-tumble fighting and, perhaps more specifically, the injuries associated with it, became less of a sign of masculinity and more a symbol of old barbarism.
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Women everywhere became less reluctant to speak up about harassment: in the year after Hill testified, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which tracks claims of sexual harassment, got 10,578 such complaints -- a 72% increase from the 6,126 received the year before Hill testified.
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Mice were most sensitive to social reward learning as adolescents, they became less sensitive to these social rewards as they aged, and the closing of the critical period has something to do with that change, according to the paper published today in the journal Nature.
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There has been a big drop in trade flows in recent years, when Argentina exported less to Brazil and Mercosur, as a whole, became less important to Brazil as a percentage of its global trade, dropping to 8.7 percent last year from 10.8 in 2011.
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"For a while it was kind of cool, it was a good sister subreddit to ASMR," Thimo said, but as he became less involved in posting links to music that made him feel that elusive sense of frisson, the Reddit became clouded with random posts.
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But both share the same core sense that something important was lost when women's sexuality became less heavily regulated by social norm and law, that things were in some important ways better when women were more formally slotted into social roles focused on supporting men.
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In the five years since, Ms. Wojcicki has introduced new forms of ads as well as subscription offerings for music, original content and the cord-cutting service YouTube TV. But somewhere along the line, her job became less about growth and more about toxic containment.
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They have pushed Schiff to subpoena the whistleblower, but Schiff has said that over time, the whistleblower became less relevant to the investigation as his committee began to gather information that corroborates and expands upon what was laid out in the whistleblower's initial complaint.
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The Norman's Cay smuggling routes essentially operated from about 553 to 1982 or '83 when the US closed it down and the Medellin Cartel developed other ways to get their drugs into the US. After this point, Lehder became less valuable to the cartel.
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Also, the authors examined schools where the share of poor kids enrolled rose over time (most notably Harvard, which saw a big jump in low-income enrollment between 1998 and 2002), and checked to see if they became less successful at elevating those kids economically.
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It turns out that people living in Vermont actually became less distrustful of GMOs following a temporary state law that mandated a simple labeling system, especially when compared to people living in the rest of the country, according to a paper published Wednesday in Science Advances.
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And you won't be surprised to hear that "Metal Gear Solid" and "Final Fantasy VII" are still really, really good — as I played "Metal Gear," I became less and less conscious of the graphics, and more and more immersed in the stealth gameplay and convoluted storyline.
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This adjustment became less relevant when HCP began to report the HCR DFL on a cash basis; --Fitch has adjusted the historical and projected net debt by assuming the issuer requires $2000 million of cash for working capital purposes which is otherwise unavailable to repay debt.
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"As Facebook became less and less a place where people were going for news, we started to put our efforts elsewhere and we really invested in Apple News and we really doubled down on SEO because it turns out that SEO is really important," Polgreen continued.
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And so, as the canvases in his previous show suggested, his painting temperature cooled and he became less involved with taming chaos and more engaged with developing a personal sense of architectonics, with the black ground as the most conspicuous holdover from his previous way of working.
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A recent study published in The Journal of American Education found that many teenagers who wore activity trackers got frustrated with them, feeling discouraged if they didn't fit in 10,000 steps a day and became less motivated to be active than before they had the device.
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Woods has embraced an approach to intellectual Black pop that peaked with Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) and gradually became less common since, where the complexity of the historical connections drawn in the lyrics is matched by the delicate intricacy of the equally allusive beatwork. Legacy!
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And that meant that a night playing at Los Crazios became less a musical journey and more an attempt to steer a disparate ship through a sticky-floored and carnivalesque series of booze-sodden waves, with only saccharine teen pop, bait R&B, and 80s nostalgia anthems for support.
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Taken together, the collection strongly recalled Mr. Ford's third and fourth year at Gucci, when his love of the disco era became less literal and he started infusing his collections with gothic, '80s references that recalled Chrissie Hynde and Siouxsie Sioux but added a certain Madison Avenue panache.
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Federal Reserve officials decided in late January to pause their steady campaign to raise interest rates as the global economic outlook became less certain and financial markets failed to appreciate the Fed's willingness to shift if the economy weakened, according to the minutes of that meeting released on Wednesday.
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Friedman told me in 2017 that the authors examined schools where the share of poor kids enrolled rose over time (most notably Harvard, which saw a big jump in low-income enrollment between 1998 and 2002), and checked to see if they became less successful at elevating those kids economically.
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Air and snow were now the same color, opaque white, but by peering intently into that whiteness, so that it almost became less dense, the boys could make out the sky-blue shadow, suspended in the midst of it, flying this way and that as if on a violin string.
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Friday the 13th became one of the iconic slasher series of all time by turning in an increasingly amped-up installments throughout the '80s, throughout which Jason became less of a figure of terror and more of a video-game character, juggernauting his way through films in series of escalatingly violent set-pieces.
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For decades, word processors evolved with printers, taking on features like typography and layout, but the problem is that printers eventually became less important as a way to communicate—and a lot of modern word processors (looking at you, Word) never took the time to change course when the internet became a thing.
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Participants also became less skeptical about the motivations of those with different political views: The percentage who thought people who disagree strongly with their policy views have "good reasons" for their positions rose from 37% to 54%, while the percentage who thought their political opposites were "not thinking clearly" dropped from 5500% to 33%.
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On forums like DeviantArt and Discord chat servers devoted to the kink, in illustrated and photographic art, or through text-based role playing or erotic writing, it became less about a specific scene in a movie or book and more about what new creative directions they could take the concepts of inflation and BDSM.
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