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In its harsh counterterrorist response, the state resorted to torture and to forced disappearances, and as terrible as all of these events became, the international community largely ignored them.
The second one was an hour, and then they became half hours, and all I noticed was my bald spot getting bigger.
I became more involved with computers and learning and influenced by Seymour, but particularly looking at learning as something that is best approximated by computer programming.
Now, Manya became so successful in selling cars that soon she moved on to selling airplanes.
Kerabai became very popular.
She did successful goat deliveries in the region and she became a famous goat doctor.
Higher education stopped being a right for all and became a privilege for the few.
In 1989, he was the leader of the peaceful revolution and he nearly became the first freely elected Prime Minister of the GDR until it came out that he was an informant.
So after a few instances of this, Steve happily became "Seve," and we got through it that way.
Places became safer because those inmates who were most violent or disruptive could now be isolated.
Insidiously, just the way that stop-and-frisk, for instance, became over time a bureaucratic numbers game.
Those urban voids quickly became illegal parking or trash yards.
With clean water, suddenly the uncovering of the river became possible, and with luck and actually a lot of pushing, my partner Takako Tajima and I were commissioned by the city to work with a team of engineers to uncover the river.
These organizations became our customers, and when combining credit and insurance, interesting things can happen.
He became extremely protective of these bunnies, and he stopped sleeping, and he would sort of nod off while trying to take care of them.
In many ways, I feel like I became a service animal to my own dog, and I have seen parrots do it for people and people do it for parrots and dogs do it for elephants and elephants do it for other elephants.
New medical options became available every few years.
He dropped out of school, got a job in a store ... But that, too, became too complicated.
Robert became fearful and withdrawn.
You see, before I became a biologist, I worked in computers and math, and I learned this lesson: wherever you can collect vast amounts of the right kinds of data about the functioning of a system, you can use computers in powerful new ways to make sense of that system and learn how it works.
When Summerwear came to this country from Jamaica in the early '60s, he insisted on wearing light summer suits, no matter the weather, and in the course of researching their lives, I asked my mom, "Whatever became of Summerwear?"
But it became a little tricky when we were stopped by the police, and we were stopped a lot by the police, and I was impressed by the way that my father dealt with the police.
He would promote the policeman immediately, so that P.C. Bloggs became Detective Inspector Bloggs in the course of the conversation and wave us on merrily.
The children became the parents to the parent.
The Caribbean people came to this country with a five-year plan: they would work, some money, and then go back, but the five years became 10, the 10 became 15, and before you know it, you're changing the wallpaper, and at that point, you know you're here to stay.
Quality of air became better, and we started harvesting seasonal fruits growing effortlessly right in the backyard of our house.
In 2000, David Best and Jack Haye built the first Temple, and after a member of their team was killed tragically in an accident shortly before the event, the building became a makeshift memorial.
In fact, a few years ago, there was a scientist in my lab who became quite convinced that he'd found a brain region for detecting food, and it responded really strongly in the scanner when people looked at images like this.
I can't move my body to the beat, and after a scientist who became a philosopher, I have to talk about hard science.
I became obsessed with pursuing this hypothesis.
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