Some of those are much more sickening that the smell of a cigarette, and they get on papers passed across the office, as well as linger in the office the whole day through.

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The Government's programme is a bit bogged down at the moment - and you would need the best part of a whole Commons day to ram through the second reading, committee, report and third reading of even a short emergency bill.

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We spent the whole day trying to call them and get through either the mobiles or the land lines but the phone network was jammed and no calls were getting through.

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The public on the whole don't appreciate that just getting through each day as a mother who is disabled, for example, can take as much hard work and effort as athletics training, but with no sponsors, coaches or team-mates to back you up.

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Sorting through each image takes a good computer a whole day, so the institute also uses human interpreters.

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Calculators were the original handheld computers, but unlike the whole PDA fad, they've had amazing staying power through their 40-year history -- to this day, buttoned-up dudes crunching numbers at wooden desks have HP 12Cs next to them not for the kitschy retro street cred, but because they're functional, familiar, and do exactly what they're expected to do.

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