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  1. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.
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  2. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    shook hands. She thanked him for his pro bono
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  3. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.
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  4. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.
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  5. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    Black lung is a legal term for a preventable, occupational lung disease. It is more formally known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis {CWP}, and is caused by prolonged exposure to coal dust. Once coal dust is inhaled into the body it cannot be removed or discharged. It progressively builds up in the lungs and can lead to inflammation, fibrosis, even necrosis. There are two forms of the disease: "simple CWP" and "complicated CWP" {or progressive massive fibrosis}.
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    before a jury. It takes time: time to
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  7. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.
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  8. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?
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  9. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    Relief, fear, and humiliation. Her parents paid for a pricey prep school education in D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown with a degree in political science. She breezed through law school and finished with honors. A dozen megafirms offered her jobs after a federal court clerkship. The first twenty-nine years of her life had seen overwhelming success and little failure. To be discharged in such a manner was crushing. To be escorted out of the building was degrading. This was not just a minor bump in a long, rewarding career.
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  10. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains
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