And all that underlines how badly wrong things have been going - in case that was in any doubt - but it also underlines how much effort and cost is required if they are to be put right.

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He has talked with Cruz, but it was more the usual offseason stuff about how are things going and telling him to be ready to go to work on April 15 when offseason training starts.

WSJ: QB Manning considers reworking contract for Cruz

One of the things that kept me up at night during our pivot was how we were going to tell our loyal group of early adopters about the change.

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If this is how things pan out, the IMF says the Chancellor George Osborne would probably have to admit that he was going miss one of his key fiscal targets, which says net debt as a share of GDP must be falling in 2015-16.

BBC: IMF report on UK makes for unhappy reading