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  • n  a stop that keeps open doors from moving

  • Washington can and should continue to augment the country's antiviral stockpile and publish revised pandemic plans like the 396-page doorstopper put out by the Department of Health .
  • With the exception of An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie, his doorstopper novels are largely forgotten.
  • Finally, while penning another doorstopper to pay off his debt to a Swiss bank, he catches pneumonia.

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