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The matter was considered a private concern of the chairman to handle

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He was underrated at the preliminary stage of the competition

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The office assistant was dismissed for pilfering

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Almost everyone she had worked with took advantage of her meekness

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Barely six months after his father's demise, he has nothing left again of his patrimony