One solution: something called Braun Cut (named after Peter Leonard Braun, former head of the Features Department at Radio Free Berlin).

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It is just this sort of argument that sends Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International, an anti-corruption pressure group based in Berlin, into paroxysms of high-minded rage.

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