Millan said many future pet owners often mistake a high-powered tail wag as happiness.

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And, ultimately, it did not wag enough as Steven Patterson and Ajmal Shahzad each took two wickets.

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As one wag put it, the system ensured that King George III could not rule over us, nor for that matter, could anyone else.

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As a wag once put it, an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until, eventually, he knows everything about nothing.

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As one wag quipped, the two appointments represent both ends of the spectrum: JPMorgan Chase, where Mr Daley worked, and Goldman Sachs, to which Mr Sperling was a consultant.

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Bullard sat his team-mates down, stood in the middle of them, and proceeded to wag his finger at them as the Hull players laughed and cheered.

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Or, as an old Waste Management wag once complained to me: The most efficient operator in the business is a one-truck hauler where the owner drives the truck.

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Now the tax tail should never wag the economic dog so I am asking this as a real question, not a rhetorical one ?

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One wag on Twitter suggested the governor was using "paradox" as others might use the word "mistake".

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While WAG intends to protect its "universal" policies, such as free prescriptions and concessionary fares, other changes in areas such as housing benefit have led the Institute of Fiscal Studies to suggest that the June 2010 budget cuts and service reductions will impact disproportionately on those that are most vulnerable.

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