To convince nine nearby water districts to sign 30-year contracts to take Poseidon's water, Maloni had to promise to never charge them more than the going price of imported water.

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Hickson said she had never intended to keep them locked up more than a few days, and she was angry she had had to schedule this hearing to force the child welfare officials to act.

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More than half of them said that they would never use offshore call-centres.

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"I wore my lucky socks today and they more than played their role - I'm tempted never to wash them again!"

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He said of more than 200, 000 pensions paid outside the UK, more than half of them were to people who had "never put a penny" into the British system.

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It never fails that the folks we bring in for help learn much more from our people than we learn from them.

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