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The dilemma in Britain is the same as that of any West European country: the move by left-of-center parties to the middle ground, and their acceptance of market forces, means that right-of-center parties have lost their traditional claim to govern on the grounds of economic moderation and good sense.

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And since I'm realistic, rather than grandiose, I don't claim that the ability to control the function of the nervous system will at once unravel all its mysteries.

Mammography's the only one that's been around long enough to have a chance of making that claim.

While she didn't have any medical evidence to back up her claim that there was a relationship between operatic arias and pulmonary hypertension, she was absolutely emphatic I was singing my own obituary.

I didn't actually claim the feminist label until I went to Barnard College and I heard Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner speak for the first time.

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