In France, for instance, you tote up the value each year of everything you own and pay the government a 1% tax on the amount above a certain threshold.

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Paul Carberry rode the winners of the first two races - including Wild Passion in the Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle - before his sister Nina followed up with victory on board 10-1 shot Mansony in the Tote Ireland 75th Anniversary Handicap Hurdle.

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They are no longer so eager to tote a 50-pound pack for a week in the Tetons, nor hoist themselves up icy Mount Rainier in Microsoft's backyard (Al Gore's recent ascent of that peak notwithstanding).

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It was one of those things where the horse was going, and she went behind the tote board on the back side, and I didn't see it, and when the horses showed back up, she wasn't there.

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