At Askernish, Ebert and Irvine were determined to create golf holes the way Morris and his contemporaries did, by doing virtually nothing beyond cutting the grass and filling in old rabbit burrows.

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Cutting down on box-ticking and form-filling will help reduce costs, but leaves government policy, the source of most of the regulatory burden, untouched.

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Driven crazy by the amount of form-filling and box-ticking required of them, commission officials have got used to cutting corners.

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In fact, the Chinese appear to be filling a funding hole created by the U.S., which under fiscal pressure has been cutting aid to Latin America, a trend that continued into the 2013 budget proposal.

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In reality, that's what many are these days: hefty souvenirs of meals had or aspired to be made, as opposed to something that lives next to your cutting board, guiding you step by step on making gyoza for the first time (take it easy on the filling).

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