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Heartening news for those who feel Wall Street's wheeler-dealers have yet to be mocked with sufficient zeal for their part in bringing about the sub-prime crisis, the Great Recession and all the other chaos of the past three years.
Without a return to growth, the western economies could end up as 'Japan lite' 2011
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Heartening, perhaps, for those who have delayed motherhood, who could be around to even see their great grandchildren flower.
Let's dispel this gloom about living longer and make life better for the old | Yvonne Roberts 2011
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Heartening news for those who feel Wall Street's wheeler-dealers have yet to be mocked with sufficient zeal for their part in bringing about the sub-prime crisis, the Great Recession and all the other chaos of the past three years.
Without a return to growth, the western economies could end up as 'Japan lite' 2011
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• Heartening news, for we learn that the peregrine falcons that hunt using a base in the higher reaches of parliament, with a nest in Vauxhall, now have three eggs and counting.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Heartening to report dogs don't possess nine lives.
Deadheading 2010
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Heartening to know though, that as much as you insist Bush & Blair said Iraq was behind 9/11 and has hard as you try to prove it, the truth is not something that you want it to be and it really bugs you.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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"Heartening as these developments are," The Times noted however, "there is also strong resistance from the industry and from fake consumer-advocacy groups that are shilling for it," in a not-so-concealed jab at the fraudulent front men at the Center for Consumer Freedom, which the Times exposed in a news story a couple of weeks ago as a personal enrichment scheme for the group's founder.
Wayne Pacelle: Editorializing for Animal Protection, Agricultural Progress 2010
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Heartening, because, well, I got through the last one of these and didn't die.
The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. commodorified 2008
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Heartening indeed, but ultimately, despite his best intentions the father's efforts were futile.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah 2010
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Heartening indeed, but ultimately, despite his best intentions the father's efforts were futile.
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