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In April, Los Angeles County agreed to a $4-billion tentative settlement involving 6,800 abuse claims, some of them going back to the 1980s, involving probation camps, juvenile halls and the MacLaren Children’s Center.

John Chu, a Senior National Curator at the trust, said the artist appeared both "swaggering" and "tentative" in the picture, with a "mysterious" shadow across his face.

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Lawmakers also introduced a tentative deal on cap-and-trade, an ambitious climate program that has raised roughly $31 billion since its inception 11 years ago.

Hundreds of people waited, sitting on black metal folding chairs or standing in groups, hoping for an email or phone call telling them they’d received a tentative offer.

With a digital key card for Chuck’s Arcade starting at $10, the buy-in to try out the space isn’t large, but this felt like a tentative step into adulthood.

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

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