But critics say two thirds of the money goes to the richest 10 percent of farmers, and almost all of it goes to a handful of crops like corn, cotton and soybeans.

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One of the obvious results is a level of player wages that almost no other clubs in the world (other than a handful of the best clubs from around the globe) can match.

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Although the new Basel 3 global accords on capital adequacy are tough enough to have saved almost all banks during the crisis, a handful of firms worldwide, including HBOS, were outliers that lost far more than the average.

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He refused a knighthood almost to the end, pointing out that he had written only a slow handful of books.

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Emile Heskey had proved a real handful, and he almost extended Wigan's lead with an acrobatic over-head kick after 50 minutes that brought an equally spectacular save from Paddy Kenny.

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Until about twenty years ago, the way almost everybody experienced the medium was intimately tied to a handful of genres.

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Although it's been on the air for almost 60 years, "The Tonight Show" has had just a handful of regular hosts: Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Leno and O'Brien.

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Every game has its own interface and controls, so that anyone who has learned to play a handful of games can generally figure out how to operate almost any high-tech device.

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Almost nobody in the Pentagon wants to replace the all-volunteer armed forces, and only a handful in Congress even dare to mention it in public.

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