Wadsworth, who was also caretaker manager of the team, said the latest news was a bitter pill to swallow.

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"This is the key that could unlock the door, or make it very difficult for some teachers to swallow, " said Mr Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers.

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"This is the first day I can swallow without feeling like razor blades, " Rapada said Thursday, ranking this bout of mass illness among the worst he's seen in his six-year career.

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"There was always the hope and expectation, even the knowledge, that Cyprus would have to swallow its medicine and do what the troika told them to do, " said Mr. Sherwood.

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"It's a sweet bitter pill to swallow, " said Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the community.

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"The number of people working there has been squeezed and squeezed over the years and the prospect of significant job cuts is a bitter pill to swallow, " Mr Dawson said.

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"For anyone to take it upon himself to be judge, jury and executioner is nothing but sheer evil, " said Karen Swallow Prior, who is running for lieutenant governor of New York on the ticket of the anti-abortion Right-to-Life Party.

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