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All that matters, she said, "is who stays longer and who provides some modicum of security and justice when they're in place."

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It couldn’t hurt and it seems there’s literally nothing else we can do to exert any modicum of control over billionaires who are exacerbating environmental degradation and dangerous technology.

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Their response proved that they would rather watch New York disintegrate than allow people who are struggling economically to get even a modicum of relief.

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This could get grisly, but let's hope there's a modicum of football played at Hampden.

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He also noted the body horror, especially in two “monstrous” birth sequences, providing an adequate scare, and there’s a “modicum of well-done fright effects.”

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