divorcement
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To many a lawyer, it looked as if the Supreme Court wanted complete divorcement.
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The Justice Department suit asks the court to order any necessary "divorcement, divestiture or reorganization" of IBM.
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"If divorcement had been ordered, stocks would have gone down ten points."
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Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois.
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And they said, "Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away."
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