The 22-year-old midfielder, key centre-back Roger Johnson, top scorer Ross McCormack and full-back Kevin McNaughton will attract attention from big clubs after Cardiff failed in their promotion quest despite being in the top six virtually every week since October.

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Yet even he has failed to get his company far in its 15-year quest to diversify out of Japan's mature leasing business.

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But the fact these predictions have failed to materialize has not deterred many of Venezuela's most fervent critics in their quest to engineer a constant and misleading narrative of impending disaster.

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The quest for the constantly new was driven by a lightning-quick mind and short attention span for anything that failed to interest him, the fear of boredom, and an insatiable need for intellectual stimulation.

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