The highway department will strategically apply salt to intersections, hills, bridges and curbs in subdivisions, but aim for conserving on other stretches of subdivision roads.
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Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
According to the city’s ordinances, streets in subdivisions have to be extended for other subdivision development.
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Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Jan. 2026
The cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco has made a career of rescuing history from the cleavages of memory.
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Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Intelligence agencies in the United States and other Western countries closely follow these cleavages, of course, and can sometimes recruit the disaffected or the ambitious to provide insider information.
But over the past decade or so, major schisms have emerged.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
The history of religion, with its thousands of schisms and reformations, is full of pilgrims who, rather than discard their relationship with their sacred text, have found purpose, clarity, and community through defiance.
The footage showed tubes with ruptures and other damaged structures that used to be inside the pressure vessel, which originally was enclosed.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
If a fatty deposit ruptures, a clot can quickly form and block blood flow—an event often linked to risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Mar. 2026
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