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That sounded like a sly attempt by the plaintiffs to put more pressure on the red states to make their own case for the wholesale destructiveness of the NIH order, in public.

He met my happy laugh with a sly one and said just enough for me to imagine the scene: Atlanta apartment, twin bed, 1971.

Alternatively, voters might use pop vocal album as a way to recognize Carpenter, whose deep belief in — and sly subversion of — the genre’s fundamentals has made her one of music’s biggest new stars.

It was a sly jab at President-elect Donald Trump — who a day earlier suggested that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed the Gulf of America.

Was that response a sly way of throwing a little shade his way?