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According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).
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In absolute numbers the figures for casualties are, for the moment, manageable.
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Meanwhile Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams accused Welsh ministers of failing to address the issue, calling the figures an "absolute disgrace".
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Many public figures have failed pretty dramatically, but through employing the seven key abilities of absolute perseverance, these people were able to move beyond failure.
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