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With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles
  for about four cents an acre, more than doubling its size and bringing its
  western border within reach of the Pacific Ocean.

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With the cost of wireless service plummeting
  in the last year and mobile phones becoming
  increasingly common, many people are
                            now using their mobile phones to
  make calls across a wide region at night and on weekends, when numerous
  wireless companies provide unlimited airtime for a relatively small monthly
  fee.

Simply
  being genetically engineered does not make a plant any more likely to become an
  invasive or persistent weed, according to a decade-long study published in
  the journal Nature.

Being heavily committed to a course of action,
  especially one that has worked well in the past, is
  likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or
  misinterpret them when they do appear.

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In his
  research paper, Dr. Frosh, medical director of the Payne Whitney Clinic,
  distinguishes between mood swings, which may be violent without being
  grounded in mental disease, and genuine manic-depressive psychosis.

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Referring
  to the current hostility toward smoking, smokers frequently express anxiety
  that their prospects for being hired and promoted are being stunted by their
  habit．

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Archaeologists
  in Ireland
  believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the eighth
  century, was probably buried to keep it from being stolen by invaders.

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The
  recent surge in the number of airplane flights has clogged the nation's
  air-traffic control system, leading to a 55 percent increase in delays at
  airports and prompting fears among some officials that safety is being
  compromised.

The
  survival of coral colonies, which are composed of innumerable tiny polyps
  living in a symbiotic relationship with brilliantly colored algae, is being
  threatened, experts say, not only by pollutants such as agricultural runoff,
  oil sticks, and trash, but also by dropped anchors, probing drivers, and
  global warming.

The
  nurses went on strike to protest their being overworked.

A
  mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer's Cane has been called one of
  the three best novels ever written by
  a Black American — the others being Richard
  Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

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Very reluctant to have any extra
  weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight, Charles
  Lindbergh refused to carry even a pound of mail, despite being offered $1,000 to do so.

(x) being very reluctant