"It could well be that what works for one disease will turn out to work for another, even though that wasn't the original intent, " he said.

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He said many private firms hoped to gain contracts with local authorities on infrastructure work, which would in turn provide places for many apprentices who had been left out of work.

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And when we cannot agree on where the lines should be drawn, we turn to the Supreme Court to work it out for us.

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Eager beavers work hard for JDs that turn out to be awful investments.

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During a 24-hour strike on 13 September the council said about 150 people, out of a workforce of 3, 500, did not turn up for work.

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Blackwood is opening a Nasdaq trading room in London this month and has had to turn away more out-of-work City traders than the dozen or so it now has room for.

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But there's some marketing things we don't do, we're not reaching out to the fan the way golf or a lot of other sports do, so we've got our work cut out for us -- but that doesn't mean it can't turn around.

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