So I was surprised to see that people were pessimistic about it because pessimism implies that people may or may not want to do something to change their outlook.

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Regulators say that they have not pressed for a more radical change because they do not want to swamp banks with new rules.

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They do not want it to be full of head-in-sand climate-change denial.

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Universities UK (UUK), which represents university leaders, says it supports the "broad thrust" of the plans, but that universities do not want to "take ownership" of the qualifications and that the timetable for change is "too ambitious".

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What nobody can predict, though, is how a change in the law would affect those who avoid marriage precisely because they do not want to become financially intertwined.

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These agencies do not have the financial resources to do all that they want to, but they have a passion and desire to change the world.

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