That's probably the observation I've heard most often so far at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting.

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The most corrupt orphanage managers even have an incentive to keep the children looking poor, because, as I have heard many travellers say, tourists often want to give their time and money to the poorest looking place, as they think that is where it is needed most.

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Fast forward roughly five years, Charlie has drifted from his friends as college friends often do after graduation, yet somehow I heard that he was a first year law student at a Midwestern university.

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Late in the afternoon on February 26 I heard that federal regulators had shut down the popular and often maligned discount bus service run by the Fung Wah bus company.

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The specific group name here has not been heard before, as I understand it, but sleeper cells in Europe and elsewhere have often come up with new names when they communicate publicly.

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In his quote Cameron appears to be questioning whether the late Sir Ronald Waterhouse and his team carried out their job effectively - I've never heard his personal integrity questioned in public before - even if the remit has often been criticised as too narrow.

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