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  • Under non-marginal cuts, you get the full amount of the cut no matter if you work more or not.

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  • The Big Bang in which the universe was created was followed by the condensation out of a huge amount of energy of zillions upon zillions of such matter-antimatter pairs.

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  • "I can say that those are the amounts we are talking about, and I'd also like to stress that for us the amount of money does not matter, " Patrik Hildingsson, a spokesman for the Swedish company, told AFP news agency.

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  • It is a very grand achievement on many levels and a worthy heir to the Getty family reputation no matter the amount of money he has added to the family fortune.

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  • "The Royal College of Nursing in Wales has previously called for patients being treated in corridors and waiting an unacceptable amount of time for treatment to be looked at as a matter of urgency, " she said.

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  • Does class size matter in the amount of learning students do?

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  • Whether that amount is a set percentage of the account value or a hard dollar amount does not matter as much as having the parameter in place.

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  • Loads of data can amount to loads of garbage unless you can piece together the parts that matter most to you.

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  • But a certain amount of abstruseness is inevitable, given the subject matter.

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  • Thus Qualcomm was all but guaranteed a fair amount of success, for a while, no matter who eventually took over for Irwin Jacobs.

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  • Eric Sim, the club's secretary said it was a matter of principle, rather than the amount involved, though there was concern that the sum could rise over the next few years.

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  • One lesson is that what kind of HDL you have may matter more than the amount you have.

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  • Dan was eager to tackle such provocative subject matter and when he came back - with a large amount of research and a basic storyline - Lizzie was asked whether she would be interested in co-writing the script.

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  • No matter how frequently you shampoo, your scalp produces the same amount of oil, says Jeffrey Benabio, MD, a dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego.

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  • The parties have exchanged information and after some investigation and discussion have resolved the matter for an amount all parties believe reflects the actual out-of-pocket expenses related to this incident.

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