More have come since, but Britain is still relatively ungenerous and is planning to tighten its asylum laws.

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Readers provided almost 1, 000 comments, mostly astute (even when ungenerous to this writer).

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As with the first experiment, respondents expected a lot from the extroverts and evaluated them quite critically if they gave an ungenerous response.

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And given how much research was going on in 1989, on how to thwart HIV, it was quite ungenerous to present such gloomy odds.

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Higher unemployment may trigger hostility to immigrant labour, making it harder for Europe to reform its ungenerous visa and work-permit rules so as to attract foreign talent.

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He was saddened by the squabbling newspapers, by "listening to the vague, hurt rhetoric of the politicians along the left bank, by hearing the ungenerous mutterings against the Americans".

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They will rub shoulders with the likes of north-west neighbours Liverpool and Manchester United next season and have already been given somewhat ungenerous odds of 10, 000-1 to win the title.

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The tax system could be changed to encourage more people to use the scheme, he suggests: as things stand, the tax on traditional retirement income is low, but the tax treatment of portable personal pensions is comparatively ungenerous.

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