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Reversing enrollment decline is a tall order given the high cost of living in L.A. and the slowdown in immigration.

No, but that would have been a tall order.

That said, bringing a massive multiday Korean awards show to the U.S. is a tall order.

But getting the right people together in one place is often a tall order, and could be why some of these films arrive decades after the last one.

The arithmetic of doing so – recovering from the Conservatives’ worst ever election defeat and overturning a Himalayan Labour majority – looks a tall order, but so volatile is the electorate you never know.

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