"I am very familiar with the league Chris played in and because of that, it did not take long for people from there to tell me that we needed to recruit this young man, " Flood said.

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Leicester were missing their England quartet Toby Flood, Ben Young, Dan Cole and Tom Croft, but Jordan Crane returned on the bench following a pre-season ankle injury, where there was also a place for loan scrum-half signing Jason Spice.

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Others complained the move will flood an already poor job market for young Americans with illegal immigrants.

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What does flood through the province is a river of young women from Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, lured by offers of fictitious jobs in Western Europe and then sold into sex-slavery.

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Celtic's Aiden McGeady won Young Player of the Season and Dundee United's Willo Flood picked up Goal of the Season for his December strike against St Mirren.

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Barbara Young, chief executive of the Environment Agency, said it was disturbing that the flood defences were graded in poor condition in many places.

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"It is our responsibility to introduce classics to the next generation, because there's such a flood of new titles on the book market right now, especially in young adult literature, and we have to make sure that the books that we love go into the hands of our own children, " Blume tells Linda Wertheimer.

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Despite the support for McEnroe, the flow of young U.S. talent onto the professional circuit remains a trickle rather than the hoped for flood.

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