"I meant what I said and I said what I meant, " the devoted elephant explains through chattering teeth and all sorts of weather, "An elephant's faithful one hundred per cent!"

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Mr Banks described as "absolutely absurd" suggestions that Mr Blair had withdrawn his active support from the bid, stating instead that he was behind it "one hundred and ten per cent".

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These are the patients who are in the top one per cent of costs because they were in a car crash that resulted in a hundred thousand dollars in surgery and intensive-care expenses, or had a cancer requiring seven thousand dollars a week for chemo and radiation.

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Everybody, all the commentators accept this, they've taken money now from Conservative councils to give it to failing Labour councils and that has forced Conservative councils to raise their council tax - in fact in one case I gather they told Conservative councils they should be raising it by over a hundred per cent.

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