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[Gordon, Matthew J.]

I'm not sure why Wilson's pointing this out exactly. Isn't the variation between "is to do" and "has to do" British vs. American?


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"The problem _is to do_ with the power-saving systems ..."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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