Cutting corners is not easy - but a necessary task when so many officers have left.

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Mr. Kane said Monday he will soon be working on the all-important handbag, a task he says isn't so easy.

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Of course, the best evidence of a real Shiraz revival would be in the bottle, so I cobbled together almost 30 wines not a particularly easy task.

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We think that completing the funding for fiscal year 2011, a fiscal year that's nearly half over, should be a relatively easy task, and that the differences that separate us are not so great that we cannot find the common ground in a way that each side can feel that it accomplished something in getting it done.

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