But after a few embarrassing hiccups in the past two years, the Swiss have now taken the lead in facing up to the past, setting up two imposing commissions to dig up the truth.

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It would be possible for me to dig up the figures on the rise in health care costs over the past four decades, add them to the changes in household size and thus correct those household median income numbers that you present us with.

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Mentally, the French have been known to lose the plot in the past, but now they seem to be able to dig in and grind through games without giving up.

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