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  • Why not get a team of Froggies or Singaporeans to put in the French or Singapore systems of health care ... two systems that work because they are designed and run with awesome intelligence ... not thick wadges of self-perpetuating, form-filling, uppity bureaucracies.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Meanwhile we have as yet to be told or to work out what it is that Macavity's 'Regional' Gauleiters are going to be getting up to: whilst they remain (being paid big fat wadges of taxpayer's money, no doubt) the fear remains that they are the Harbingers, the Fasces Bearers for Emperor José The First.

    Tub O'Lard's Legacy Melts Away 2007

  • Meanwhile we have as yet to be told or to work out what it is that Macavity's 'Regional' Gauleiters are going to be getting up to: whilst they remain (being paid big fat wadges of taxpayer's money, no doubt) the fear remains that they are the Harbingers, the Fasces Bearers for Emperor José The First.

    Archive 2007-07-15 2007

  • During my recent visit to Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda, we found fig wadges everywhere.

    Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: New Simple Tests for Humans Could Help Gorillas 2008

  • During my recent visit to Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda, we found fig wadges everywhere.

    Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: April 2008 2008

  • AdvTech had a division that supplied all manner of training videos, and my familiarity with names such as Peters, de Bono et al, dates back to then - downtime was spent wading through great wadges of video material in order to become familiar with it.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Karyn Romeis 2006

  • In my grandparents' day, it was considered impressive when a person could regurgitate great wadges of information on demand.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Karyn Romeis 2006

  • In my grandparents' day, it was considered impressive when a person could regurgitate great wadges of information on demand.

    Bored already? Karyn Romeis 2006

  • AdvTech had a division that supplied all manner of training videos, and my familiarity with names such as Peters, de Bono et al, dates back to then - downtime was spent wading through great wadges of video material in order to become familiar with it.

    Working smarter - groan! Karyn Romeis 2006

  • A bank cashier knows a robbery will take place: so he pockets wadges of cash beforehand, and then blames the crim.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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