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  • If done properly SNT is hard work-it means being there at the times that it is necessary to be there-it means keeping your local scrotes on their toes and it means being one step ahead all the times-but for so many its the easy option of a 9/5 job-and why do the guvnors let them get away with it? on March 29, 2010 at 2: 05 pm Bob

    Policing Pledge Is A Lie SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • But it's a bad idea for four reasons: (1) it isn't needed; (2) even if it were, it might not work; (3) if it does work-or is seen by the public to work-it would create a bad precedent for future policy, and (4) it distracts from what should be Clinton's main focus, reducing the budget deficit.

    Does Anyone Know History? 2008

  • It was brick, and with a lot of work-a tremendous amount of work-it could be charming.

    Child Of The Hunt Golden, Christopher 1998

  • This means that in 1992-and I should say it like this, very clearly, so that we will know what the situation is and how we must work-it is very likely that we will have to manage in 1992 with one third of the fuel the country consumed in normal times.

    Castro Speaks at Spare Parts Forum 16 Dec 1991

  • If the gun the Really Bad Man had given Eddie didn't work-it was possible; she had never met a man she hated and feared as much as Roland, and she put no depth of slyness past him'she would do him just the same.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • But my frustration with these "helpful" books isn't just that they don't work-it's that they're degrading to their readers.

    Forbes.com: News Daily Muse 2011

  • If these constraints are accepted, they do work-it's just not clear why their availability should be so restricted, nor why they need to be a completely separate feature from Hangouts-though Hangouts are video-oriented, they do include support for text chat too.

    Ars Technica Jacqui Cheng 2011

  • A group of researchers has shown that, under the right conditions, this second light field doesn't have to hit the substance to make EIT work-it only has to have the potential to be there.

    Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011

  • If these constraints are accepted, they do work-it's just not clear why their availability should be so restricted, nor why they need to be a completely separate feature from Hangouts-though Hangouts are video-oriented, they do include support for text chat too.

    Ars Technica Jacqui Cheng 2011

  • It's going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work-it's going to take a new president.

    NY Daily News 2011

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