Figuring out your taxable income can be quite an effort.

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That has been an effort in progress now for quite some time.

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Without revealing confidences, there was discussions in these meetings about the fact that we were talking about a resource -- an effort that had been under-resourced for quite some time.

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Quite to the contrary, Hollande seems to be waging an all-out effort to keep entrepreneurs from taking flight.

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Nevertheless, he must have made quite an impression on Bill Clinton, who left the meeting publicly endorsing Nazarbayev's effort to head the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which monitors elections and supports democracy.

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He makes "humorous" remarks about Hitler in an effort to ingratiate himself with his new friends -- a ploy that works quite well, actually -- and liberally distributes what he calls "little envelopes of happiness" to smooth the way for his business proposal, a plan to build a match factory staffed by the country's pygmy tribe.

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U.S. and Russian official documents leaked, respectively, to Bill Gertz of this newspaper and to a Russian nationalist journal establish that President Clinton has quite explicitly tapped U.S. taxpayer resources -- both directly and indirectly -- in an effort to ensure that President Yeltsin is re-elected this June.

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