Steve Akers from Unison said this was a question of the council and the community deciding whether they want austerity to "bite this hard".

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The pandas bite off the hard outer part of the stalks and eat the soft fibres within.

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For dessert, the Philippine-inspired, brown-sugar fried Banana Lumpia is a perfect bite into a hard wrap cover to unleash the mushy and very sweet inside.

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Merrill publicly denied Spitzer's charges, but the embarrassing e-mails were hard to explain away in a sound bite.

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Fortunately, I have created a system that will allow these logical, rational, linear thinkers to turn any message point into a sound bite that is irresistible to even the most hard-bitten journalist.

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Southern Europe was particularly hard hit, suffering a 19% fall in sales as the financial crisis continued to bite.

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