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  • 11In Like Flint — Infobox Film | name =In Like Flint caption =original film poster by Bob Peak director = Gordon Douglas producer = Saul David writer = Hal Fimberg starring =James Coburn Lee J. Cobb Jean Hale Andrew Duggan music = Jerry Goldsmith cinematography =… …

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  • 12hell hath no fury like a woman scorned — In classical mythology the Furies were avenging deities, fearful goddesses from Tartarus who avenged wrong and punished crime. Fury in the sense of ‘frenzied rage’ may also be intended, esp. in more modern quots. Cf. EURIPIDES Medea 1. 263 γυνὴ… …

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  • 13Please Like Me, Schoolmate — Infobox animanga/Header name = Please Like Me, Schoolmate! caption = ja name = 私のように、私の学校の友人の! ja name trans = Watashi no yō ni, Watashi no Gakkō no Yūjin no! genre = Romantic comedy, SchoolInfobox animanga/Manga title = author = Aiko Murata… …

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  • 14beard´like´ — beard «bihrd», noun, verb. –n. 1. the hair growing on a man s face, especially on his chin and cheeks. 2. something resembling or suggesting this. The chin tuft of a goat is a beard; so are the stiff hairs around the beak of a bird. 3. Informal.… …

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  • 15Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances — This article describes an example election using geographical proximity to create hypothetical preferences of a group of voters, and then compares the results of such preferences with ten different voting systems. It does not, however, address… …

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  • 16in like Flynn — idi sl. in circumstances of assured success …

    From formal English to slang

  • 17negligence — The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent man would not do. Negligence is the failure… …

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  • 18negligence — The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent man would not do. Negligence is the failure… …

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  • 19income tax — a tax levied on incomes, esp. an annual government tax on personal incomes. [1790 1800] * * * Levy imposed by public authority on the incomes of persons or corporations within its jurisdiction. In nations with an advanced system of private… …

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  • 20negligence — neg·li·gence / ne gli jəns/ n: failure to exercise the degree of care expected of a person of ordinary prudence in like circumstances in protecting others from a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm in a particular situation; also: conduct… …

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