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In experiments, overfed or underfed volunteers always returned to their original weight--the "setpoint"--when they ceased their diets.
The FDNY overall command post and posts in the NorthTower lobby, the Marriott lobby, and the staging area on West Street south of Liberty all ceased to operate upon the collapse of the SouthTower, as did EMS staging areas, because of their proximity to the building.
Poland ceased to exist — its very name was abolished by treaty — for the next 123 years.
Homosexuality ceased to be grounds for exclusion from the United States in 1991, but since gay and lesbian couples cannot legally marry in this country, there is currently no legal way for them to benefit from family-preference laws.
To this day, long after Latin has ceased to be the principal medium of written legal documents and records, lawyers cling to and defend against all comers unnumbered words and phrases in that ancient tongue, under the persuasion, justified or not, that they enrich the legal vocabulary with precision, permanence, and dignity.