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...outset of the meeting, one kitchen worker stood up and said, "I don't see how I can ratify this contract without the benefits...
Once the gun sounded at the outset of the race, Dillon and Treacy wasted little time in establishing their position. The duo set a fast pace with a two-mile split of 9:15 and were never seriously challenged...
Egypt The Israeli military government "will be abolished at the outset of the transitional period" and Israel will start dismantling its military installations. Egypt is prepared to consider a joint Israeli-Egyptian-Jordanian supervisory council...
These opening words of This House of Sky whisper up a big promise. They say, on top of all else, that a real writer is at hand. Yet the bright prospect may, at the outset, seem at odds with the vehicle he has chosen for his first book: a personal memoir. The form, after all, is notorious for snaring even gifted writers in thickets of anecdotage and sentiment...
...outset of the show, a flutist, cellist and lutanist take their place in a far corner of the hall. They provide the accompaniment for two unspecified songs, followed by a dance (choreographed by Graciela Daniele) in which the white-masked members of the court all participate. We seem to be watching a traditional Twelfth Night masque. And all this preliminary music gives added point to the play's opening lines, in which Duke Orsino refers to the "excess" of music, to a "dying fall" (which is accurately fitted to a descending cadence), and finally requests a halt...