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More than two hundred people were killed there, but the storm also carried a second disaster.

John E. Freund, the district's lawyer, said of the judge: "She gave the principal no benefit of the doubt that the bracelets carried a second, sexual message.

In his new memoir, "Interventions," Kofi Annan jokes that "SG," the abbreviation for his title as U.N. secretary general, carried a second meaning around the organization's headquarters that more aptly described the role of the world's top diplomat: scapegoat.

"Looking back, it would have been better if I'd simply used a second e-mail account and carried a second phone, but at the time this didn't seem like an issue".

Not long after Libya's official news agency transmitted the unexpected announcement from the Foreign Ministry that the country had agreed to divest itself of a varied arsenal of unconventional weapons, the agency carried a second bulletin quoting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi applauding the idea.

Gotcha, the noun, has now been entered in the latest printing of Merriam-Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary, defined as "an unexpected, usually disconcerting challenge, revelation or catch," its etymology "an alteration of 'got you".' I would add that the original verb phrase carried a second sense, "understood," as in the exchange: "Capish?" "I gotcha".

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I also carried a first aid kit, a whistle, and a mosquito net.

In the 1950's, Cunard's 12 ocean liners carried a third of all passengers crossing the Atlantic.

Saratoga Race Course, situated amidst Victorian mansions in a quaint upstate New York town, has carried a nineteenth century ambiance into the twenty-first century.

55% carried a third mutation with the addition of a mutation at codon 581 in the dhps gene.

The other five glaucous accessions carried a third allele of the S10812-1 locus.

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