Setting aside whether higher pay leads to increased performance, the researchers investigated whether higher pay leads to increased meanie behavior (my phrase, not theirs) toward subordinates.

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In reality though, it is my humble opinion that traders suddenly had a reason to invoke the second part of my little phrase yesterday.

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"Stay in your lane" is not my favorite phrase.

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The world got--excuse my lame phrase--a paradigm shift.

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Based on the analysis, the key to sounding more like the Queen is frequent use of the phrase "My government" and not using contractions such as "it's", "can't" and "don't".

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"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.

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One phrase kept popping in my mind to characterize the tone of the response: Just a little bored.

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In my opinion, he will sometimes overdo a phrase, but less than he used to.

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The rush came because the Mandarin for 4 January 2013 sounds similar to the phrase "I will love you all my life".

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"I said that my wish is that growth is not an empty phrase, that it is something which, in reality, is happening, " Hollande told reporters at a joint news conference with Merkel after the talks.

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But, for that one phrase, I'm going to add Lord Ashdown to my list of heroes of this session of Parliament.

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