Wealthy punters can place big bets on events involving ill-paid sportsmen in faraway places.

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Mindful that the city's residents grow ever unhappier, politicians have cooked up various schemes to bring water in from faraway places.

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But they must frequently pay them in odd, scary or merely surreptitious ways to odd, scary or merely surreptitious people in faraway places.

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Naturally she also longs to see faraway places.

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The Met's Islamic galleries offer a grand voyage to faraway times and places, and an eye-opening display of art.

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It is just more important in faraway, unfamiliar places.

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