The competition authorities, who will have to police any such settlement, gloomily share this view.
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The result of the non-binding referendum, while gloomily predicted, has plunged Ryutaro Hashimoto's government into further confusion.
Mr Frank thinks gloomily that it breeds restless dissatisfaction, waste and bankruptcy.
You sit gloomily in her kitchen while she fixes you another cheeseburger.
This week's Lex report concludes gloomily that even if congestion were to double, only 7% of motorists would be prepared to switch to public transport.
Massing around St Brigida's, his admirers talk darkly of a return to pre-war times when, they say gloomily, most buildings in Poland's towns were owned by Jews.
Just a decade ago, when the first President Bush visited Tokyo, U.S. commentators noted gloomily that Japan was poised to surpass America as the world's biggest economy.
What is most gloomily clear is that if Messrs Maliki and Allawi remain set on preventing each other from becoming prime minister, Iraq could slip back into sectarian division and violence.
Nowadays, some U.S. commentators note gloomily that Japan is in danger of eventually doing an Argentina, by slipping from the ranks of the rich nations back into the status of a developing economy.
Grigory Yavlinsky, whose Yabloko party was virtually wiped out in parliament at the last election, says gloomily that the benefit protesters are fundamentally anti-liberal, and that Mr Putin's government has further discredited the whole idea of liberal reform.
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