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      <excerpt> Cougars football coach Paul Wulff: &#8220;I&amp;#39;m thankful it&amp;#39;s basketball season.&#8221; US Rep. Norm Dicks: &#8220;I have done nothing wrong. I did NOT take the last drumstick. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...thankful for?&#8221; Huskies football coach Steve Sarkisian: &#8220;Three-letters: USC. Without them, Husky fans would be looking back at Ty Willingham&#8217;s tenure as The Glory Years.&#8221; U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks: &#8220;I have done nothing wrong. I did NOT take the last</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...allies said at a news conference last week that the subsidies give Airbus an unfair advantage in the tanker contest.  U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said he wants the Pentagon to add a $5 million penalty to the price of each Northrop tanker to balance t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> It also will be used to hire Ryan Dicks &#8211; son of US Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair &#8211; to be the county&amp;#39;s sustainability manager. In announcing the grant, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...heating system at the jail to installing heat pumps in old houses.  It also will be used to hire Ryan Dicks &#8211; son of U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair &#8211; to be the county&#8217;s sustainability manager. In announcing the grant, County Executive Pat McCarth</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Bray all you want about the way U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is saving us from ourselves on health insurance &#8220;reform,&#8221; as the leadership maligns insurers and jaws about cutting doctors and hospitals fees. The truth, as found on pages 1431-1433 ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Norm Dicks, a member of the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations subcommittee, urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to add as much as $5 million per plane to NGC/EADS&amp;#39; bid.Dicks claims this is to &amp;quot;neutralize&amp;quot; advantages ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... on Wednesday to add as much as $5 million per plane to a rival trans-Atlantic team&amp;#39;s bid to supply new U.S. mid-air refueling aircraft. Rep. Norm Dicks, a member of the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations subcommittee, . ...</excerpt>
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