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L.A.’s nonchalant highhandedness can gall today as it did 101 years ago when it precipitated what secessionists hailed as the “day of deliverance” from the “imperial county.”

Such developments, coupled with growing public outrage, seem to have precipitated a change of tone from the Australian government.

And yet I was afraid to bring up the topic of marriage in case the answer precipitated one more casualty in my portfolio of failed romances.

It’s unclear what precipitated the barrage of social media threats from Johnson to Rogan in recent days, though I’m inclined to think Johnson’s efforts to promote the Netflix show are a likely factor.

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, wrote that the plan may have “precipitated unlawful action by the University of California and some or all its constituent campuses.”