There is endless talk of encouraging non-oil exports.

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And telephoning an American company is a guarantee of an automated nightmare of options, starting with the most improbable and long-winded, and culminating in an endless wait to talk to a human being.

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Trips back home involved enduring endless one-upmanship talk of assets and their 'big plans' for retirement.

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Endless television and radio talk shows pick over France's deteriorating image abroad, touching not only the Romanies but also the strike by the national football team at the World Cup this summer and the Bettencourt affair, a political-favours scandal involving Eric Woerth, the labour minister.

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We list endless features of our products rather than talk in depth about the one or two that really matter .

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After months of talk, after two weeks of negotiations, after innumerable side meetings, bilateral meetings, endless hours of discussion among negotiators, I believe that the pieces of that accord should now be clear.

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In the grocery store, listening to the same talk over and over, I began to feel a superstitious fear, the presentiment that in these endless discussions something awful was being hatched.

NEWYORKER: Vast Hell