Former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal told John Humphrys that supposedly "easy money", from occasional no-balls that could be thought not to affect the outcome of the game, may have led to corruption.

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The take home message is that LivingSocial.com makes finding and enjoying local deals an easy and fun experience, says John Fulbrooke, a creative director at The Martin Agency, which worked on the campaign.

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Both campaigns know it, but that does not make their jobs easy, according to the Pew Center's John Greene, who studies the intersection of religion and politics.

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There is of course a good amount of technical stuff behind that (see Deinterlacing and telecine) but we promised John and everyone else that we will keep it nice and easy.

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Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.

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John Thompson, manager of Thompson Plumb Growth Fund, finds it easy to love Pfizer and Microsoft because they're powerhouses that won't run out of juice.

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But for the men who make each syllable of "blockbuster" ring with jaw-cracking sound -- Powell, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, James Horner and others -- "It's not as easy as it seems, " Powell laments.

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By recommending that children be introduced to reading by means of some "easy pleasant book, " Locke pointed the way for the creation by England's John Newbery two generations later of a new type of illustrated children's book in which, unrepentantly, amusement shared pride of place with instruction as the publisher's stated goal.

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The IMF's second-in-command, John Lipsky, acknowledged in a BBC interview that in the immediate future the reforms won't be easy or enjoyable.

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