If not, its leaders will need placating, which will amount to the same thing.

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NICs altogether would amount to the same thing.

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The problem is that most judges have spent their careers working, in effect, as junior civil servants in a culture where accusation and guilt amount to almost the same thing.

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And unfortunately, the huge rise in productivity, which is normally a good thing, in this circumstance means that they have learned to produce the same amount of goods with fewer people.

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