Well, digging into third-quarter results, the economies of scale one expects in such an enterprise seem slow in coming.

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He branched out into grain storage, well-digging, and even owned a funeral home.

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But Beckham may well feel digging his heels in affords him the opportunity of negotiating the most favourable route out of Old Trafford.

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After weeks of digging, we finally got a well-placed source to confirm their exact shareholdings in Facebook.

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Well, after doing some digging through our own records, we're seeing quite a few instances of hardware running the unannounced Google platform visiting Engadget.

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But we have been digging our way out of policies that were misplaced and focused on the top doing very well and middle-class folks not doing well.

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Mr Obama noted that the involvement of several jurisdictions, as well as private companies whose payments were tied to performance, meant "construction workers are on the job digging this tunnel, doing great jobs, getting good pay".

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