All this is a shocking waste of time and taxpayers' money, incredibly inefficient and if you want to do something about the NHS, you should seriously send people here to learn about what medicine is about, which is getting people well and not inflicting patients with a bureaucratic nightmare.

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And, while a five-year trophy absence might have had something to do with Wenger taking the competition more seriously, the need for some of his more renowned stars to get some first-team football also played a part.

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If the government seriously intends to stop coal declining any further, it will therefore have to do something drastic.

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Might it finally persuade the Justice Department to investigate why the sport is taken seriously by sentient adults? (I, for one, think that gambling might have something to do with it.) We also hoped that the NCAA might suspend Butler so the players could take a year off and learn to shoot.

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