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25 Because of the price reduction unprofitable routes would become even more unprofitable and some formerly profitable routes would become unprofitable.
For all their populist posturing, both candidates are "third way" Democrats (formerly known as "neoliberals") who can be counted on to favor a non-doctrinaire, moderately liberal style of governing.
Chatterbox replied that he could easily picture Mossberg (with whom Chatterbox formerly worked at the Journal 's Washington bureau) as a smart-alecky 9-year-old but that he doubted many other members of Mossberg's cohort were similarly precocious.
Western Michigan Legal Services formerly known as the non-profit Legal Aid, honored Lalley recently with the 10th annual Michael S. Barnes Award for "outstanding service to the low-income community."
As a speaker of AE sojourning for several months each year in Britain during the past twenty years, I have been struck by the creeping changes I have perceived in the RP pronunciation of some ordinary words (controversy, disciplinary) and of proper names: news-readers on BBC Radio 4 and World Service tend to stress Afghanistan and Khomeini on the last syllable where formerly one heard it stressed on the sound.