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"text": "Some students have a heck-care attitude towards their studies."
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"ref": "1998 September 8, The New Paper",
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"ref": ", “Spreading like wildfire: Dragon Ash”, in The New Paper, page 35",
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"ref": "2005, David Leo, Life's so like dat, page 73",
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"ref": "2008 March 2, “Motorists' burden\"”, in The Straits Times",
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