Sometimes when I'm doing my homework, I just get carried away with talking to my friends online but my mum comes and tells me when it's time to stop.

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This was brought out in recent research by economists at the Resolution Foundation (you see I have been doing my homework....) It found that higher unemployment was now having a much greater "chilling effect" on wages than in the past.

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Without doing my homework.

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In doing our homework, my wife and I learned of accomplished people who inherited money in their 30s and 40s and nevertheless self-destructed.

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So my hope and expectation is that, as a consequence of us doing our homework, we can explore with the parties a mechanism for them to sit back down, to get rid of some of the old assumptions, to think in new ways and to get this done.

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Angry Birds alone has sucked up a gazillion hours in which my kids could have been, I dunno, cleaning out the garage, or doing their homework.

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