This is really the time, probably, to do a little homework because there are probably some spectacular opportunities at the moment.

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So again, though, I hate to say it, there's so many of these excuses, it's a little bit of the dog ate my homework syndrome now.

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It is however a truism that some will think there is too much homework - and some will think there is too little.

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