This is the sort of blinkered hair-splitting that gives pedantry a bad name.

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There is a sensible way to level the playing field between debt and equity, and it doesn't have to involve hair-splitting over the corporate treasurer's motives for floating a bond issue.

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His other caveat was that if Scotland did leave the UK, then Lords reform could well be lost in the constitutional aftershocks - at which the committee almost purred at the prospect of many years of happy hair-splitting ahead.

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She managed, in time and circumstance, to work with an IRS Appeals Officer who was, perhaps, a visionary regarding tax administration and was able to craft an appropriate settlement without the quibbling and legal hair-splitting reflected in the continuing evolution of the issue.

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