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"ref": "2005 February 10, Jim Burnett, “Crime Still Doesnt Pay”, in Hey Ranger!: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks, illustrated edition, Taylor Trade Publications, page 180",
"text": "The official report didn't mention it, but I suspect that there was an unusual odor in the air when this guy was caught. No, I'm not alking about the drugs—I think it was the distinctive smell of bozone.",
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"ref": "2005 March, Cook David C, David C Cook, chapter CCVIII, in Daily Grace, David C Cook, page 213",
"text": "But attaining wisdom, despite our possible \"bozone\" layers, should still be a priority in our lives.",
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"ref": "2007 May 22, Butch Harmon, “Why Get Mad? You've Never Been Any Good”, in The Pro: Lessons About Golf and Life from My Father, Claude Harmon, Sr., Crown, page 124",
"text": "Is there a bozone layer over your school?",
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"ref": "2011 July 28, James Davidson II, “Chapter Nine”, in Some Like Them Dead, AuthorHouse, page 65",
"text": "Elliot referred to the speed bump level of management as the bozone layer. If Elliot was the get 'em guy guru; George Devine was lord of the bozone layer.",
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"ref": "2014 October 24, Philip Kirby, “The No 1 Root Cause”, in The Process Mind: New Thoughtware - for Designing Your Business on Purpose, illustrated edition, CRC Press, page 86",
"text": "I call it the bozone layer. It's a symptom of the immune system, a fog of inertia that infects people who are stuck in status quo thinking. It is designed to resist the process mind. Managers in the bozone layer find it difficult to accept new thinking, as discovered in Daniel Kahneman's (psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) research, especially if the thinking breaks though the bozone layer and sheds light on problems that have been there all along.",
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"ref": "2014 October 31, J. R. Jordan, Trippin Through The Bozone: The Tales of Kidd Cassidy, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform",
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"ref": "2015, Elaine Coburn, edited by Emma LaRocque, More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence, Fernwood Publishing",
"text": "We knew that the direct and indirect schemes of the DIA, its thick bozone, had created our intergenerational catastrophes.",
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