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"ref": "1997 July 6, Adam Clymer, “G.O.P. Urged to Back Arts Endowment”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:",
"text": "After listening to descriptions of local grants between $500 and $50,000 (Montana got a total of $593,691 this year), he said the comparatively small contribution from the endowment could be replaced by a national organization that is privately run. His local critics questioned how that would work, and Jane Alexander, chairwoman of the endowment, scoffed at the idea. I think it's very pie in the sky, she said in a telephone interview.",
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"ref": "2016 March 28, David Lauter, “Poll: As California primary nears, even Sanders supporters are uniting behind Clinton and against a common enemy: Trump”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2016:",
"text": "That’s certainly the case for Gretta Whalen, a 32-year-old freelance writer and communications consultant from Los Angeles, who leans toward Sanders. Clinton, she said, “has been around for so long, and we know so much about her, and not all of it is positive.” Sanders, by contrast, seems attractive, and his ideas feel new, even if “some of them are very pie in the sky and would be very difficult to get the rest of the country on board with.”",
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"text": "Pete McCleave first heard about stem cells during his sciences degree in the 1990s. “I knew about them, I just didn’t know what they could be used for,” he says. “It all sounded very pie in the sky.”",
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