It will be an eye-opener for him to go back to playing in qualifying but his quality is undoubted - he'll definitely be back in the top 16.

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For those not lucky enough to stay in the world's grandest hotels, this book will be an eye-opener that may make them wonder who, in fact, are the lucky ones.

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On the face of it perhaps not much, as it may seem to be little more than an eye-opener.

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Just a few days before Geithner's embarrassing revelation, the Taxpayer Advocate Service issued its annual report to U.S. Congress. (The service, part of the IRS, was designed to help taxpayers resolve complaints with the agency that can't be resolved through normal channels.) The report was an eye-opener as to just how horrifically complicated the code has become.

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Just a few days before Geithner's embarrassing revelation, the Taxpayer Advocate Service issued its annual report to Congress. (The service is part of the IRS and was designed to help taxpayers resolve complaints with the agency that can't be resolved through normal channels.) The report was an eye-opener as to just how horrifically complicated the code has become.

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That was quite an eye-opener in itself, and will be the subject of a couple of posts in the near future.

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"The debate about the plight of the lemurs and what should be done about them, and whether or not my idea was a good idea or bad idea was certainly an eye-opener to me and I suspect to all of us, " he said in a recent e-mail.

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