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This means there is no direct mechanical link between the controls in the cockpit and the parts of the aircraft that actually govern flight.

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After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.

R360 had been hoping to gain approval from the sport's global governing body, World Rugby, at its council meeting next year.

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"The governing council was currently in a good place from a monetary policy point of view, though this should not be seen as a fixed place."

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Perhaps no less important, this compendium captures both the end of the Pahlavi monarchy and the start of the theocracy that still governs Iran, granting viewers an often telling glimpse of Persian society in flux.

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

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