Mama was never any good at sums and she could hardly spell cat.

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They also will not be paid huge sums for playing or endorsements or have any of the fame or exalted lifestyle that ensues.

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"It's extraordinarily difficult to negotiate any type of multiparty settlement, particularly when the sums involved reach into the tens of billions of dollars, " he said.

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Allegations of impropriety in the awarding of contracts in the US, chaos at the occupation authority that ran post-war Iraq and large sums of Iraqi oil money disappearing apparently without any record of how it was spent.

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So he welcomes the government's commitment to offer an apprenticeship to any young person who wants one, and can read and do sums, which was also one of the committee's recommendations.

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There is no taper in the government's sums, so Mr Smith's increase will be carried over to any future licence-fee settlement.

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The three giant post-Romney funds, however, would be considered failures if liquidated right now, all succumbing to the same traps too many other firms fell into: The huge sums raised made generating returns difficult and forced them to chase deals at nearly any cost, creating an asset bubble in the process.

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Access to large sums of relatively inexpensive, general-purpose cash that can be used for almost any purpose the borrower has in mind.

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About video or any form of Pop or conceptual art from the '60s, he was largely indifferent unless huge sums of money were thrown at it, in which case he could show his fangs.

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