Word: unless
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...room with the door closed less than 10 feet away. If she had remained unconscious for the rest of the day, I doubt I would have noticed--in fact, if she had fallen into a coma for the rest of the week, I might not have noticed either, unless the phone had rang for her and I would have been forced to go into her room. If her door was closed, I wouldn't have thought to bother...
...that day, or that weekend, you have just become absolutely invisible. Unless you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, chances are that no one will ask where you've been or even notice that you were gone...
...race for California's 46th district, where Loretta Sanchez defeated Rep. Bob Dornan, known for his rhetorical bombast and unreconstructed xenophobia. The Republicans' attempts to restrain immigration and to cut back health and educational benefits for legal immigrants did not win them favor among Latino (or Asian) voters. Unless the Republican Party can purge itself of its recurrent tendencies toward nativism and xenophobia, it will continue to lose the growing Latino vote to the Democrats...
...still do not think I will be going out to western Massachusetts to chop down my own tree--unless, of course, I run out of other inspirational decorations to hang--but I think that a little holiday spirit can go a long way during the endless final weeks before vacation. The end of December doesn't bring the joy of closure that is felt at other schools with the end of exams. And the anticipation usually associated with the coming of the first snow is not an issue, since the first snow has long since come and gone almost...
...signal from Nicholson to his Russian handlers that he wanted a meeting in Switzerland earlier than previously scheduled. Seasoned spies say Nicholson's method is almost quaint. An up-to-the-minute agent today would have cellular phones and portable computer linkups. "Nobody would use those techniques today unless you were an awful agent or cutting corners like hell," says David Whipple, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers...