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Egypt’s launching its war of attrition and the public hardening of Arabs’ attitudes seemed to make any serious process impossible.
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Doctors pegged the cause of death as intoxication and the manner of death as drug abuse, noting that O'Neill also suffered from heart disease, hypertension and moderate hardening of the arteries.
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Other symptoms may include thickening or swelling of the skin, hardening of the breast, an inverted nipple, swelling, and itchiness, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The country nonetheless champions immigration and diversity and will press against any hardening of borders and made headlines by announcing it would take refugees that its American neighbor turned away.
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The accumulation of similar details, deeply etched marks of subjugation, don’t inspire shock and alarm so much as a sense of gray permanence, like watching concrete hardening.
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