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hair-splitting
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hair-splitting

split hairs - to argue about whether details that are not important are exactly correct. I don't have very much patience with all this legal hair-splitting.

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But hair-splitters say the MTA won't have to refund money until deadlines actually are missed, probably 2008 at the earliest, and until then the city should provide money for the inept MTA. EDITORIAL : JUST SAY NO; L.A. COUNCIL MISSES A CHANCE TO PUT ITS FOOT ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) More results

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