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Smith’s activist career gets fairly short shrift in the movie, although it’s an important facet of her recent life.

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One of the great conceits of California is its place on the cutting edge — of fashion, culture, technology, politics and other facets of the ways we live and thrive.

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Another key facet of Cheney's foreign policy was a reliance on "extraordinary renditions" of suspected terrorists captured abroad or on US soil in order to avoid US domestic courts from having jurisdiction oversight individual cases.

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There was no physical evidence linking Garbutt to the murder, with a key facet of the case against him based on data from the Horizon system and how it was interpreted by the Post Office.

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Maggie only sees a facet of her, and Hank also only sees a facet of her because she’s very controlling about how she projects this certain type of persona, until that becomes untenable.

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

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