"They're letting the fox build the henhouse," the executive said.
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Think back to the old fox in the henhouse adage.
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It's like the fox calling for a henhouse bill of rights.
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The goal for Kohl's of letting the fox guard the henhouse?
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This is beyond a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.
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To do otherwise is to have the fox guarding the henhouse.
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Critics say it's giving the fox the keys to the henhouse.
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It creates a scenario where the fox is guarding the henhouse.
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"All of this is the fox guarding the henhouse," he said.
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In these cases, it seems like the fox is guarding the henhouse.
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"They had the fox guarding the henhouse," an opioid policy expert said.
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Environmental advocates argue his nomination effectively invites the fox to guard the henhouse.
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This isn't a matter of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
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"Even under Bush, the fox wasn't fully in the henhouse," Mr. Grijalva said.
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Is that draining the swamp — or putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?
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That makes Perry the most ironic of Trump's several fox-in-the-henhouse appointments.
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"I don't think that the fox should be guarding the henhouse," she said. ♦
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Nanang Zainuddin, 37, runs a small kitchen around the corner from Mr. Karanawi's henhouse.
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"It's sort of asking the foxes how best to guard the henhouse," she said.
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But this is far from ideal as well: it's letting the fox guard the henhouse.
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Worse, the wolves are not only in the henhouse; they are in the Executive Mansion.
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"Some have said you are the fox in the henhouse," said Representative Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts.
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Marino as our nation's drug czar is like putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse.
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Eventually, you realize that you need help and hire a second person to guard the henhouse.
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A pot of bleeding hearts bloomed by the front door; chickens clucked in the henhouse out back.
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Nominating Congressman Price to be the HHS secretary is akin to asking the fox to guard the henhouse.
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Nominating Congressman Price to be the H.H.S. secretary is akin to asking the fox to guard the henhouse.
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As a fox is a fox, and a fox can do the most damage once inside the henhouse.
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Other critics have wondered aloud if letting Schuette investigate Flint's water dilemma presents a fox-watching-the-henhouse scenario.
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Lucky can be often found riding on her BFF's shoulder or in the custom-built henhouse he made for her.
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"What's key is that it's an independent, nonprofit entity, so you don't have the fox guarding the henhouse," she added.
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He'd practice his calling by going to the henhouse on his family's farm and delivering sermons to his captive flock.
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It was precisely the kind of fox-in-the-henhouse scenario that the VA's defenders had warned against for years.
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He's like a fox that found that not only is the henhouse unlocked, but it's run by a bunch of hens.
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Tim Reinbott, assistant director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Missouri, set up cameras in a nearby henhouse.
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His confirmation means there are even more foxes guarding the henhouse, to borrow Chuck Schumer's analogy about Health Secretary Tom Price.
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It moves around everywhere in the household from the stone mortar (no grinding soybeans!), to the henhouse (no cleaning the coop
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"They've sent the foxes to guard the henhouse here," he said of Baltimore City officials being tasked with reforming the police force.
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That's the drawback when the wolves guard the henhouse — the company is going to fend for itself before it worries about democracy.
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America is in a full-blown constitutional crisis for one reason: The fox has mostly been left in charge of the henhouse.
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You, the federal government, protect your henhouse, the public's interests, from a group of foxes who relentlessly search it for weak points.
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There's also a (probably apocryphal) story about Thomas Edison, who set up his telescope in an abandoned henhouse to watch the 1878 eclipse.
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"Interpol electing Major General Alexander Prokopchuk as its new President is akin to putting a fox in charge of a henhouse," wrote Sens.
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Preying on the other Hilltoppers' insecurities, he warns them that their new captives cannot be trusted — foxes, he fears, have entered the henhouse.
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"Keeping the federations involved is like the fox watching the henhouse," Travis Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said.
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In China, chickens are being fed more vitamins and vaccines while farmers also ramp up henhouse sterilization in an effort to protect their flocks.
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"The way we see this is a fox guarding the henhouse," said Alison Reidmohr, tobacco communications specialist for the Colorado Department of Public Health.
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In hindsight, Moore's own record as a judge in sexual assault cases appears to be an example of the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.
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"I have to have confidence that the fox is not going to be put back into the henhouse," said McCain, who died in August.
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Yet all we hear from the White House are the lilting strains of "Stand By Your Man" as the fox continues to guard the henhouse.
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Given China's reputation for stealing intellectual property, having a Chinese Director General of WIPO would have been like having the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.
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In other words, the fox will never willingly abandon his post, so it's up to the Katie Faheys of America to help move the henhouse.
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"You functionally have situations where the foxes are guarding the henhouse," said Liz Fong-Jones, a former Google employee who left the company late last year.
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In "Feeding Cottonball," a Nebraska woman hand-feeds Cottonball, an aged hen who can no longer make it to the henhouse to eat on her own.
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ROBERT CHECCHIO Dunellen, N.J. To the Editor: While Herbert Hoover promised a chicken in every pot, Donald Trump's cabinet choices promise a fox for every henhouse.
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According to AFP, his father — an inventor of pills that make farts smell like chocolate, roses, or violets — has already built a luxury henhouse for the chicks.
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His glass plate negatives, left untouched following his death in 1922, decayed and were covered with dust and waste when the space was turned into a henhouse.
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"The fact is the FAA decided to do safety on the cheap which is neither cheap nor safe and put the fox in charge of the henhouse," Sen.
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"Donald Trump just let the fox into the henhouse," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the country's most influential LGBT rights groups.
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But to speak on behalf of ethics from inside a corporation is, to some extent, to acknowledge that, while you can guard the henhouse, you are indeed a fox.
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos might have assigned the foxes to guard the henhouse when she hired multiple former employees of for-profit colleges to the Department of Education.
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"If you continue to have sport overseeing investigations, overseeing compliance, overseeing itself — it's the fox guarding the henhouse," Travis Tygart, the United States' top antidoping official, told the subcommittee.
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"The fact is that the FAA decided to do safety on the cheap, which is neither safe or cheap, and put the fox in charge of the henhouse," Sen.
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"The Trumpian Fox has entered the Populist Henhouse, not so much by stealth but as a result of Middle America's misinterpretation of what will make America great again," Gross wrote.
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Conflicts PBMs own and operate mail order and specialty pharmacies, but considering their purpose is to control drug dispensing costs, it's hard to believe the fox can guard the henhouse.
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When it comes to the henhouse, he insists, his species is very open, honest and on the level; the fox and the chickens both know precisely what the deal is.
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It's also as easy to understand as the fox and the henhouse: Politicians who benefit the most from how legislative district lines are drawn shouldn't be entrusted with drawing them.
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In light of the recent outbreaks in nearby countries, they are feeding their flocks more vitamins and vaccines and ramping up henhouse sterilisations in a bid to protect their birds.
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Set in the South during the Civil War, it tracks a wounded Yankee, Corporal McBurney, who stumbles into a girls' school and mistakenly starts behaving like a fox in a henhouse.
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Kohl's shares climbed nearly 5% today, perhaps on the assumption that only a very generous arrangement could have convinced the department store operator to welcome such a powerful rival into its henhouse.
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Bankers on regional Fed boards are not directly responsible for regulation—it is not quite true that "foxes guard the henhouse", as Bernie Sanders claims—but they are too close for comfort.
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"Scott Pruitt running the EPA is like the fox guarding the henhouse," said Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters, which supported Trump's opponent in the election, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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With the fox now guarding the henhouse, there is sufficient precedent for the grand jury and Special Counsel Mueller to seek the chief judge's assistance in transmitting a properly fashioned report to Congress.
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He doesn't play guitar on stage, something he had done consistently since the Trouble At The Henhouse tour and didn't initially banter as much with the audience as he is usually known to do.
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Guests trooped down a staircase covered in industrial gray carpet against the soundtrack of air raid sirens, to see Demna Gvasalia, the Georgian fox in the iconoclastic Vetements henhouse of fashion, unveil his Balenciaga.
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A meeting of the two Babes would provide free publicity for the remaining dates on the tour — and reinforce the image of Ruth as a wholesome man who could be trusted in the henhouse.
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With agriculture happening at that scale, farms like the kind most people imagine — a family-owned business with a few acres and a henhouse — have gotten much rarer, in favor of industrial-scale businesses.
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Chapo allegedly kept his captive locked in a henhouse-type structure until the smell of his scorched flesh became unbearable, at which point he ordered his men to dig a hole in a nearby graveyard.
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While it is a hard time for her owners, they realize Big Mama went to the big henhouse in the sky with memories of being the beautiful, happy chicken her family knew she could be.
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Cook, by contrast, just seems like a rich, bored henhouse fox who throws parties where women wait to be chosen and where one lies on a table like a centerpiece, food covering her naked body.
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"We may be putting the entire 'harm reduction henhouse' in the hands of the fox industry," said Mike Hogan, a lobbyist for the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association, which represents smaller vapor manufacturers and retailers.
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Lawmakers caution that by allowing companies linked to the Chinese government to build 5G infrastructure, the U.S. and its close allies (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.) would be inviting the fox to guard the henhouse.
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The fox-in-the-henhouse metaphor may be a tired one, but Mr. Trump has revitalized it, implicitly tasking one appointee after another to subvert the very agency he or she is supposed to oversee and sustain.
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"Like hens in a henhouse," per Tillman, into a 90-minute mind-meld on a sunny L.A. Saturday, the singer and the stand-up egging each other on like two high school friends back after summer break.
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When she ventures into their domestic midden she begins to seem like a predator, a fox in a henhouse (indeed, eggs of all kinds are a recurring motif); the narrative balance is wonderfully sly and assured throughout.
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An adult who eats just one egg like the one taken from Mr. Karnawi's henhouse would exceed the United States daily safety threshold by nearly 25-fold and the stricter European Food Safety Authority standard by 503-fold.
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In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Pineda leveled a series of complaints against the facility, saying he was held in barracks known amongst detainees as "el gallinero" because the conditions were so crowded they resembled a henhouse.
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Not yet, because this thought came into my mind: His appointments so far—people who are opposed to the mission of the departments they're supposed to lead—seem to indicate an attempt to find a fox for every henhouse.
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"Interpol electing Major General Alexander Prokopchuk as its new President is akin to putting a fox in charge of a henhouse," the senators, Democrats Jeanne Shaheen and Chris Coons and Republicans Marco Rubio and Roger Wicker, said in a statement.
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The Tragically Hip have numerous awards and accolades for their expansive career, including Group of the Year from the Junos in 1995, 1997, and 2017, as well as Album of the Year in 1997 for their record Trouble in the Henhouse.
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"I have to have confidence that the fox is not going to be put back into the henhouse," McCain said, worrying about someone employed at one of the "big five" defense contractors taking on a leadership role at the Pentagon.
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But having an opioid company track misuse of its own products gave the perception that the fox was guarding the henhouse, so Purdue sold RADARS to Denver Health, a publicly owned hospital system in Colorado that also houses a poison and drug center.
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But with another Labor Day behind us, and now 49,000 General Motors employees represented by the United Automobile Workers on strike around the US, the truth is that trusting corporations to hold themselves accountable is like trusting the fox to guard the henhouse.
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Even if CNN could stipulate those kinds of obligations in its contracts, there would be no way for it to know if the wolf it has invited into its henhouse was going to abide by them, barring the extraordinary circumstance of a computer hacking.
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This system amounts to the fox guarding the henhouse, and has been such a failure that a 2628 audit by the USDA Office of the Inspector General called for its abolishment and for USDA to resume full oversight of inspections—a key provision of the PAST Act.
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"If Trump's team allows Erdogan to move his forces into northeastern Syria, it would be like inviting the fox to guard the henhouse," said Nick Heras, a Middle East security fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former research associate at the National Defense University.
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When this play was first seen on Broadway in 1987, in a Royal Shakespeare Company production staged by Howard Davies (a director of novelistic finesse who died last week), Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman slithered into its leading roles with the avidity of sleek, sexy foxes in a henhouse.
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"They basically found the most aggressive and knowledgeable fox and said, 'Here are the keys to the henhouse,'" said Bruce Buckheit, an air pollution expert who worked for the Justice Department's Environmental Enforcement Section and as director of the E.P.A.'s air enforcement office under Democratic and Republican presidents.
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The mood is taut but otherworldly, as in a fairy tale, and, aside from a few soldiers who stop at the gates and curls of smoke in the distance, the war feels like an irrelevance—no more than an excuse, really, to plant the fox in the henhouse.
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Whether it ever materializes or not, the whole idea is a somewhat stunning departure from national security norms and one that would be broadly decried as letting the fox into the henhouse, given that evidence establishing Russia as a cyber adversary of the U.S., both currently and historically, is plentiful.
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The fact that Mr. Clayton has worked closely with Wall Street does not necessarily mean financial firms have a protector in office, much as when Joseph P. Kennedy, the first chairman of the S.E.C., was accused of being the fox guarding the henhouse when President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated him.
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To the Editor: Re "Pruitt's E.P.A. Is Boon to Oil and Gas" (front page, May 21): The evolution of Devon Energy into a major fossil fuel industry force with alarming influence over public health and environmental standards didn't start with Scott Pruitt's fox-guarding-the-henhouse takeover of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Tragically Hip made its ascent in the 90s: I can remember the excitement of kids at school before the release of 1996's Trouble at the Henhouse, when the band made its appearance on Saturday Night Live, or while making plans to drive out to catch the band on its traveling festival tour Another Roadside Attraction.
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"You have a little bit of the fox guarding the henhouse here, in that the very agency whose tasked with the promotion of American agricultural products is also tasked with regulating the food safety of the meat and poultry industry," said Debbie Berkowitz, a senior fellow for worker safety and health at the National Employment Law Center.
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That comment, coming as pundits began referring to the G-20 Summit as the "G-19 plus one" to signal how isolated the U.S. and Trump appeared, was met with "putting the fox in charge of the henhouse" derision — referencing repeated findings by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in wide-scale hacking campaigns.
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"The Trump Administration is inviting the fox to take charge of the henhouse," California Attorney General Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraCalifornia leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs California counties file first lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule MORE said in a statement posted on his Facebook page Wednesday afternoon.
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