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• Again the moment was unpropitious.
• But the way this presumably unpropitious occasion turned out was that Goldwater drew some 40,000 fans to Chavez Ravine in the biggest Republican rally that Southern California .
• September 2001 would seem like an unpropitious time for an American publisher to have brought out a large, pricey hardback of Muslim mystical verse, but the book took off .

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