But complaints about the amount of money shovelled at the problem have been muted recently.

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Thanks to a strong economy, lots of money was shovelled into teachers' pay and revamping decaying school buildings.

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"I was shovelled out of the plane by the pilot's door, while she went out to face the press, " Tatham recalls.

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Feral cats live and die anonymously - the best they can hope for is to get shovelled to the side of the road.

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The same neighbour told the New York Times that the couple's sons had shovelled snow for her in the winter, but that they had had loud parties.

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Fiscal depute Sally Clark said Mr Kinmond, who had worked with the company for 14 years, thought he had slipped as he shovelled the barley to clear a blockage.

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Traditionally, banks in developing Asia have cared little for the consumer, other than as a cheap source of funds to be shovelled into the maws of the big companies that were their chief customers.

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Mr. Huerta and the FAA appear to have ignored the directive, shovelled out the bonus money, and then turned a budget cut of roughly 4% into a furlough of air-traffic controllers on 10% of their scheduled workdays.

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