"You take out the Xs and Os of the game, they just flat-out played harder than we did today, " Anthony said.

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BBC, the harder it becomes to justify the flat-rate licence fee (in all but name, a regressive tax) levied on all the country's television owners to pay for the corporation.

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Folks were working harder and harder, but their wages or incomes, they were staying flat, sometimes even going down.

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But when the race turned out to be an absolutely flat-out struggle between the two Red Bulls and two McLarens, the pace was much harder for much longer than had been anticipated.

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They understand that far before any board declared the beginning of a recession that they were working longer, they were working harder, they were increasing their productivity, yet at the same time their wages either were on that flat line or going down.

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