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• n  coils of worsted yarn

• It was built over three decades from a skein of companies, monopolies and control over vast sectors of economic activity in Indonesia--from oil exports to humble pilgrims making .
• As Republicans rubbed their hands in glee, the Carter Administration last week found itself trying to explain away a skein of presidential lies.
• The thing the curious doctor was busy disentangling and studying last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band.

News & Articles

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• A Triumph for Scotland, Too, and Perhaps a ‘Sir’ for Murray
  Andy Murray’s breakthrough at Wimbledon not only ended the long winless skein of British men, it represented a point of Scottish pride and began immediate talk of a knighthood.
  July 8, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Lady Bird Johnson in WFAA (subscription)
  Getting on the subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool,Mrs. Johnson wrote in her memoir, A White House Diary. "All the threads are interwoven - recreation, pollution and mental health, and the crime rate, and...