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"ref": "1978, James D. Anderson, Ezra Earl Jones, “The Primary Task of Ministry”, in The Management of Ministry, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, page 151",
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"ref": "[1990, Eric M. Meyers, Carol Myers, James F. Strange, “Introduction”, in Excavations at the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Ḥalav (Meiron Excavation Project; V), Winona Lake, Ind.: [F]or the American Schools of Oriental Research by Eisenbrauns, page 1",
"text": "The figures and section drawings contain many of the most important locus numbers. We are not publishing a complete bucket list.\nApparently used to refer to a comprehensive list.]",
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"ref": "1997, Suzan L[inn] Jackson, “Getting Started”, in The ISO14001 Implementation Guide: Creating an Integrated Management System, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, page 226",
"text": "As you go through each step during the session, keep a \"bucket list\" of items that will need followup action",
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"text": "Focus on only one issue at a time. Whenever a new issue arises, don't ignore it, but don't allow the meeting to get distracted from the current topic. Always record each new issue on a posted \"parking lot\" or \"bucket list\" in the meeting room.",
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"ref": "2006 September 2, Peterson Gonzaga, “Reiner gets animated in ‘Everybody’s Hero’”, in Herald News, West Paterson, N.J.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D4, columns 3–4",
"text": "Q: What projects are you working on now and in the near future? [Rob Reiner] I'm hoping by the end of October to be shooting a film I've been working on called \"The Bucket List,\" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. […] They find out they are terminal. They know they don't have much longer to live. It's about working out the issues you need to work out before you die. […] Q: Do you have your own \"bucket list\"? [Reiner] You know, I don't. I've gone on with my life always trying to do positive things and make things better and the world better. […] I want to see my kids do well, but that's not a \"bucket list\"",
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"ref": "2009 August 10, Robert Deeter, chapter 8, in Bullseye: Journal of a Black Hawk Pilot, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 102",
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"ref": "2010, Annalisa Daughety, chapter 23, in Love is Grand (A Walk in the Park; 3), Uhrichsville, Oh.: Barbour Publishing, page 168",
"text": "\"They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list.\" / She nodded. \"I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on their bucket list.\" / Jake frowned. \"I don't have a bucket list.\"",
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"ref": "2014, Lara Krupika, “How to Use this Book”, in Bucket List Living for Moms: Becoming a More Adventurous Parent, Cork, County Cork: BookBaby",
"text": "The beauty of bucket lists is that just as they represent us and our dreams, like us they also grow and change. You will be surprised once you have begun the bucket list journey at how opportunities spring up around you. New ideas beg to be added to your list. Even the act of completing a bucket list goal can be the source of further exploration.",
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"ref": "1960 July 25, J. C. Olney, Feat, an Inventory Program for Information Retrieval (FN-4018), Santa Monica, Calif.: System Development Corporation; quoted in Mary Elizabeth Stevens, “Operational Considerations”, in Automatic Indexing: A State-of-the-Art Report (National Bureau of Standards Monograph; 91), Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce, 30 March 1965, reissued February 1970, →OCLC, page 170",
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"ref": "1975, Terrence W. Pratt, “Data”, in Programming Languages: Design and Implementation, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, page 83",
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"ref": "1997, Suzan L[inn] Jackson, “Getting Started”, in The ISO14001 Implementation Guide: Creating an Integrated Management System, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, page 226",
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"text": "Q: What projects are you working on now and in the near future? [Rob Reiner] I'm hoping by the end of October to be shooting a film I've been working on called \"The Bucket List,\" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. […] They find out they are terminal. They know they don't have much longer to live. It's about working out the issues you need to work out before you die. […] Q: Do you have your own \"bucket list\"? [Reiner] You know, I don't. I've gone on with my life always trying to do positive things and make things better and the world better. […] I want to see my kids do well, but that's not a \"bucket list\"",
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"ref": "2009 August 10, Robert Deeter, chapter 8, in Bullseye: Journal of a Black Hawk Pilot, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 102",
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"ref": "2010, Annalisa Daughety, chapter 23, in Love is Grand (A Walk in the Park; 3), Uhrichsville, Oh.: Barbour Publishing, page 168",
"text": "\"They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list.\" / She nodded. \"I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on their bucket list.\" / Jake frowned. \"I don't have a bucket list.\"",
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"ref": "2014, Lara Krupika, “How to Use this Book”, in Bucket List Living for Moms: Becoming a More Adventurous Parent, Cork, County Cork: BookBaby",
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
"word": "veivilista"
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
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"word": "liste de choses à faire avant de mourir"
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
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"word": "lista dei desideri"
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"roman": "shinu made shitai koto",
"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
"word": "死ぬまでしたい事"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
"tags": [
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"word": "lista rzeczy do zrobienia przed śmiercią"
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"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
"tags": [
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"word": "lista de desejos"
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"roman": "spisok tovo, što nužno sdelatʹ za žiznʹ",
"sense": "a list of things to accomplish before one’s death",
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"word": "список справ перед смертю"
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