"The difference in the mentality between the average guy from town and these guys who'd come all the way from Poland was huge, " says Wessely.

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She has come all the way from Australia.

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There's a lot of celebrities, a lot of people who have come from other states - later on, we're going to be hearing from a blogger who came all the way from top of the East Coast to try to come here and see what was happening for herself.

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All of this suggests that corporate Japan has come a long way from the days when restructuring was merely about squeezing costs.

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And of course, as my interaction with the Reeds demonstrated, we physicians all too easily forget that many of our patients come from different backgrounds than we do, backgrounds that shape the way they view the world and the way they interpret their medical encounters.

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