"The public phones found in telephone booths resist extinction, although finding one in working order can be time consuming, " he said.

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In most countries people have to go through numerous time-consuming, expensive and often corrupt machinations in order to start a legal business.

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They claim that drug companies and even doctors are pathologising normally-naughty childhood behaviour in order to create a market for drugs or to deal painlessly with a potentially time-consuming condition.

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