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Soon I spent more time in New York doing shoots for book covers and retailers and even fashion.

Eight years later, the GOP — the party that has spent decades trying to privatize Social Security and Medicare — is trying a different approach: Destroying the program by increments, one painful piece at a time.

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This would be a huge reduction in spending - even given cuts in recent years, the aid budget stood at around £14bn last year, including just under £3bn spent on asylum seeker accommodation within the UK.

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"He showed me that in real time. It was a special time we spent together. He was a beautiful man."

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"Let me be really clear - every minute that's not spent talking about and dealing with the cost of living is a minute wasted," the prime minister told the Daily Mirror.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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