Dollars tend to slip through our hands unless we have a system for plugging those holes.

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We are simply talking about plugging holes, sealing a porous system that isn't working as well as it should.

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Another selling point is the absence of the red tape usually involved in plugging in to Italy's telephone system, whether fixed or cellular.

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Mr Estrada hopes his new finance minister, Jose Pardo, will be able to improve government revenues by plugging some of the holes in the tax system.

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Europe adopted a cap-and-trade system to cut its emissions under Kyoto only because America was plugging the idea before it pulled out.

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