Much wiser is it for Japanese to strive for deep understanding and mastery of their own language and culture.

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Yet a leading medicines specialist says he fears the consumer may not be much wiser come May this year.

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McCarthy is confident the Irish economy will come back "much wiser" and "pragmatic" than before, with a focus on prudence.

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Jayojit Chatterjee, older but perhaps not much wiser or more at home than Samar, draws us in to the constricted goings-on of one Calcutta household without stepping out of the scene.

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There are clearly major problems - but based on this data, we're not much the wiser about where they are.

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Rowe Price that emerged in the early 1980s was a firm chastened, wiser and much more valuation-conscious, with strong bond and value funds to complement its original growth specialty.

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Then came yesterday's complaint that eight days after the Chancellor had signed, sealed and delivered his Autumn Statement to parliament, Welsh Ministers were still none the wiser how much extra money they actually have to spend on day to day matters, in other words by how much their revenue budgets had been boosted.

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So even though the global music revenues are so much lower than before, what has emerged at the bottom of the revenue trough is a tougher, wiser industry that now has some solid footing on which to launch a digital counteroffensive.

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