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  • Certainly, federal agencies long have embraced rewards as a law-enforcement tool, although some developed a reputation for being chintzy.

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  • Although it has a reputation for sogginess, it's been cooler and wetter than normal for the last few months in the British isles.

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  • The Richard III Society works to defend the king's reputation, although many historians believe Richard was responsible for the murder of his young nephews, King Edward V and Prince Richard.

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  • Mr Bergan's description of their tortuous passage through the Soviet bureaucracy can only enhance Eisenstein's reputation, although there is certainly much more information about him still hidden in the Soviet archives.

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  • The electricity company appears to be as secretive as its reputation suggested and although the Japanese media are mostly giving the government an easy ride, individuals able to follow western sources are faced with a barrage of conflicting opinions.

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  • And although Lord Wakeham has a reputation as a fixer rather than a radical, his first consultation paper, published last week, surprised some constitution-watchers by posing more searching questions than expected such as whether there is a case, not broached in the white paper, for giving the upper house extra powers as a constitutional watchdog.

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  • Latterly its reputation has improved, although its decision to drop the Saudi Arabian aspect of a corruption case against BAE Systems saw it widely criticised, because it was seen to be buckling under pressure from the then government of Tony Blair.

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  • Although as trade minister Hashimoto gained a reputation as Mr. No, Americans are actually quite pleased with the way last year's high-profile agreement on automobile imports is working.

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  • Although the Plame affair has tarnished his reputation for honesty with independents, it has hit him in the first year of his second term, allowing him to recover.

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  • Although such tax dodges have an unsavory reputation, Vicki Schultz says she has vetted this one along with the specialized fund offerings and can vouch for long-term returns after fees.

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  • Although the investigation helped bolster McCain's reputation as a warrior against corruption, it may come back to haunt him.

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  • Although Egypt's banks have a sounder reputation than some in the region, their closets still rattle with the skeletons of dodgy loans, handed out to inefficient state enterprises on government instructions.

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  • Recent frauds, although few, have stained the cajas' reputation.

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  • Although French farmers in some regions have developed a reputation as being wary of outsiders, the divide is easier to breach than imagined.

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  • Although no longer justified, the diesel's reputation for being slow, smelly, noisy, unreliable and difficult to start in cold weather has lingered since the 1980s, when Detroit rushed out half-baked designs in response to the oil crisis.

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  • Although the investigation may do some damage to Petrobras's reputation, this is likely to be slight.

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  • Messrs Bolton and Cox, to name but two, are among those reputed to have such powers (although neither of them basks in, or even endorses, this reputation).

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  • Although foreclosed homes are typically associated with inconvenient or blighted neighborhoods, this reputation is undeserved: Tens of thousands of American foreclosures occupy prime parcels in pleasant neighborhoods.

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  • But although the wins came in a steady stream, McRae could never shake his reputation for inconsistency.

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  • Although Menino wasn't always the smoothest of political figures, he earned a reputation as one of the hardest working, from filling potholes to shaping the city's skyline.

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  • The school exists to this day - although it is now based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire - and over the decades has cemented its reputation as a global centre for flight instruction.

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  • Although these are common across the U.S., with more than 88 million members and a good reputation for low-rate consumer loans, they have traditionally had almost nothing to do with lending for private education.

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