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In music, the change in tone-quality between different registers of voices and of wind instruments, a natural defect which may be more or less successfully corrected by technical means.



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The additional burden that is breaking the back of our emergency health care system is illegal immigrants.
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Begin's logic was simple, impeccable, airtight: since the PLO could not operate, survive, and flourish without the support it enjoyed from the Palestinian people, an important component in the strategy of breaking the back of the PLO was to raise the price of supporting it to above what regular Palestinian civilians could tolerate.
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People are really worried about this breaking the back of the consumer," said Gary Wedbush, senior vice president and head of trading at Wedbush Morgan.
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