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Turkey’s Uraloglu said that because the blasts happened so close to Turkey’s shores, “we are highly sensitive on the issue.”

Archaeologists believe the site began as the burial place of Christian martyr St. Neophytos, said to have been killed by Roman soldiers on the shore of the lake in A.D.

Military personnel scrambled overnight to clean up the mess, towing the boats to shore until 9 a.m. the next day.

On an earnings call last month, Citigroup executives moved to assure investors that the bank was making progress on shoring up its operations.

By borrowing to spend, the chancellor and prime minister have shored up their immediate position in parliament and it appears to put to bed the shocking doubts about passing their budgets.

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

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