Sure, they were aggressive in their lending (up to 125% of property value for example) but the underlying business was really very simple.

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The Royal Statistical Society decided to ask a group of British MPs (Member of Parliament, think Representative in the US Congress) a really very simple question.

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Mr. MILLER: The test for citizenship is really very simple.

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And the choice is really very simple.

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It really is very simple: just look at something and press the Delete key.

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"It's really a very simple business, " he says.

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It really is very simple.

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And remember, this is - really comes down to a very simple calculus.

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That one deserves a very simple: Really?

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But my tax affairs are very simple so the one thing I don't really want to do is the self-assessment thing.

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But one thing we need to do from the outside and from our positions, regardless of where we are, is to make the very simple straightforward argument that I haven't heard anybody make so simply before but can really grab the American people, that if - if we go through with this defense sequester, none of the domestic priorities will matter.

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It's simple to say, but very difficult to bring off, something that cannot be taught and really is hard to pin down, and it either works or it doesn't.

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