What we do is ethereal so why do we need to taint it with confusing, mundane legalese?

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As Lance Armstrong discovered the hard way, Nike would not stand behind him once it became clear that his past accomplishments had been tarnished with the taint of PED use.

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The problem was first detected in the 1996 Burgundy vintage, when collectors, experts and journalists started to notice the prevalence of a number of faulty bottles that weren't just infected with cork taint.

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Mr Maude called for a fresh start and for the Prime Minister to heed the advice of his "design guru" Lord Rogers to appoint a senior national figure with no possible taint of party politics to manage the project.

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After she left, you had various people trying to reignite the evangelical zeal, but the privatisations they then had to look at were less straightforward, like the railways, and it's easy, with hindsight, to let some of these taint the privatisations that happened before.

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Special allocations are permitted and useful on fund partnership tax filings, but not with S-Corp tax returns, since special allocations reverse (taint) S-Corp elections.

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