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The Supreme Court officially returns for a new term Monday after a summer break that wasn’t much of a reprieve.

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Raymond James analyst John Ransom wrote in September that Oscar executives had told him that it “sees limited utility in a one-year reprieve.”

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Le Maire agreed not to become a minister and Macron gave his outgoing prime minister a last-minute reprieve of 48 hours, to see if he could persuade LR into the government.

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The question remains of whether this was a turning point or a temporary reprieve in a lost season, but at least for the moment everyone associated with the team could deeply exhale.

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As a child, Baruch said, he would find brief reprieve from the tolls of addiction by visiting his grandmother’s house.

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