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He said doctors had received generous pay rises over the past three years – worth nearly 30%, bringing average basic salaries to just over £54,000.

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Acknowledging the "terrible tragedy", BHP maintained that a compensation agreement it reached last year in Brazil -- worth around $31 billion -- provided a resolution.

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The panelists shared stories of a chaotic evacuation process with little direction from the city and the pain of losing a lifetime’s worth of memories.

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There’s only one network, FreeVee, and its goals overlap enough with those of the government that the distinction between them isn’t worth parsing.

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"Is it worth letting your house and then having a court fight to recover it, or a one-year delay? It's not worth it. So it will end up making the housing crisis worse."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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