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Part 1 gives details of the resources an authority is retaining for central management instead ofpassingdownto schools for them to spend.
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Boats were loaded onto cradles, and the loaded boatspassingdownthe incline raised the unladen ones, with three horses assisting if necessary.
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The itinerant dasas who succeeded him are believed to have followed the systems he devised, as well as orallypassingdownhis compositions.
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Since there was no written language, wampum was a very important means of keeping records andpassingdownstories to the next generation.
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These checkpoint proteins are essential to avoidpassingdownmutations or other chromosomal aberrations to offspring.
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