They are keen to rid themselves of a well-deserved reputation for opportunism and self-service, won in the days of Suharto.

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And the law firm at the bottom of the complaint, Bartlit Beck , has a well-deserved reputation for top-gun litigation.

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As it turns out, Butler's vice is actually a virtue: The team has a well-deserved reputation for knowing how to foul without fouling.

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My reward in following this advice has uniformly been that my Welsh hosts would live up to the well-deserved reputation of the Welsh as being among the most verbal and most talkative of all peoples.

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Perhaps the Times should live up to its assuredly well-deserved reputation and take heed of the esteemed position that it holds by knowing the facts before drawing conclusions about the relative quality of health care in the United States.

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