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  • His version, perhaps not as pellucidly presented as would have been ideal, was that he was telling Bob Diamond in their now notorious conversation at the end of October 2008, that Barclays at the time was too conspicuous and noisy in the way it was paying a higher interest rate to borrow than other banks.

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  • It happens to be a popular hedge fund holding at the moment too.

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  • An employee who wastes time away from the office will waste time at the office too.

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  • It's not just a visitor attraction, education plays a key role at the reserve too.

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  • Girls themselves have started demanding a seat at the table too.

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  • Though Indonesia's voters have now signalled that they want change at the top too, it is not clear that Mr Yudhoyono can deliver on this mandate.

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  • The key to the future is being able to control our costs not just at the farm level but across the industry and at the processing level too.

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  • At first the movie comes at us too broadly, with many facetiously anachronistic jokes about the grubby professional routines of the theatre.

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  • Or at least, the story has stopped too soon, at the point this film went into the can, which appears to be early 2009.

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  • Halliburton said that the report "accurately places responsibility on BP as the well owner for its operational decisions, " which included using a heavy fluid designed to keep gas from entering the well, called drilling mud, that was "too light" and probably mixed with the cement at the bottom of the well, and drilling too narrow a well.

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  • He gets stopped for driving a hundred miles an hour, honks angrily at the officer for taking too long to write up the ticket, and then resumes his journey at a hundred miles an hour.

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  • We refined how we analyzed our metrics and made sure sure to create test features one at a time to avoid overloading the users with too new features at once, thus skewing the results.

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  • This can happen in the Standard Grade exams children take at the end of S4, too, if anyone has joined the year group since the census was taken at the start of the school year the previous September.

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  • "Too big to fail, " too many jobs at stake, too much of the nation's manufacturing capability at risk are among the considerations that will justify government intervention on a massive scale.

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