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Managers have no incentive to stretch for yield and take on extra risk, because they ar en't being rewarded for it.
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And yet they're all pouting because they wer en't invited to a recent meeting at the White House along with the other CEOs.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Which of These Banks Was 2010's Most Shameless Corporate Outlaw? RJ 2010
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"Well, she en't seen 'im since' e come home after Dunkirk."
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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"Old Adolf en't stopping us enjoying our Christmas, then," he giggles with glee.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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'There I was, fookin' blunderin 'about the place, wallowin' in self-pity, hatin 'everythin', trustin 'nobody, comin' t'the depressin 'conclusion that absolutely nothin' in my fooked-up world is real, including myself, an 'suddenly I meet a bird who's so real it en't funny.
High Society Elton, Ben 2002
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When he had gone, Claribel aid diffidently, "Why did he call you Baron? en't you just mister?"
The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993
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It was bad enough, but it came out, "I'm a bg str 'n' I en't evn gt Id."
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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To be sure it goes against my stummick to fire on old messmates; but it en't in Englishmen to hold their noses and swallow pills o 'that there size.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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The Waterman's Rest en't exactly the kind of place to spend shore leave; it en't a patch on Wapping or
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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Why, I don't sleep easy if there en't some sort o 'hullabaloo -- wind or wave, or, if ashore, cats a-caterwaulin'.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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