He takes me spelunking through a Neolithic cave that is both prettier and tidier than my house.

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Mr Putin may well have hoped for a quicker, quieter and tidier solution.

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He said creating the archive had given him a "much tidier office".

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But Saturday night showed what we could lose in the movement toward a supposedly tidier, more inclusive system: goofy, gorgeous, sudden-death mayhem that could arrive unscheduled on any late-fall weekend.

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The biggest, an effort to prune the country's dreadful thicket of indirect taxes into a tidier form, an all-India Goods and Services Tax, has been pushed back by a year, to April 2012.

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In fact, Emin's bed couldn't be tidier.

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The study by the University of London for the People's Trust for Endangered Species and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society listed tidier gardens and urbanisation as key factors affecting the fall in the number of the small mammals.

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The sound seemed tidier, quieter.

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