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1 - He would have gone to prison, but he managed to buy off the only witness in the case.

2 - The Red Cross and the Red Crescent provide relief in case of calamities such as floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes.

3 - Conversations about elderly parents and technology usually center on safety, in particular on devices designed to alert a call center in case of trouble.

4 - It was clearly a case of workers trying to use union muscle to hold off reality.

5 - At present the rate of economic growth is very satisfactory, but eventually when foreign competition makes itself felt this will not be the case.