Fifth, rightsize the bureaucracy including devolution, local government autonomy, fighting graft and corruption, getting the bad dregs out of government.

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If this is the dregs of humanity, then give me the dregs.

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He pulled out the bottle again, and polished off the dregs.

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But amid the dregs are shards of brilliant, piercing writing.

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Among the human dregs that Eli comes in contact with, only one, Carnegie (Gary Oldman), a crime boss, knows the value of Scripture he thinks that if he reads it he can become a dictator.

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Some parents pointed to poor design and use of substandard building materials as some of the reasons why many schools -- described as "bean-curd dregs buildings" -- collapsed in areas where other buildings were not badly affected.

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Some parents pointed to poor design and use of substandard building materials as some of the reasons why many schools - described as "beancurd dregs buildings" - collapsed in areas where other buildings were not badly affected.

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Sometimes the crows would go quiet and send out reconnaissance, one or two of them circling and landing in the street to examine a candy wrapper or the dregs of a garbage can that the sanitation men had emptied incompletely.

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