More importantly, the chipset could be miserly enough to let Apple keep its thin design while mustering reasonable battery life.

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Politicians have made us believe that buying new things is good - that we shouldn't be miserly and hang on to our old possessions, our old appliances and our old clothes, but that we should toss them out the second they get worn and buy new ones - to keep the economy going.

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But aid workers in Laos query how long such a policy can be sustained, given that alternative crops often provide miserly returns from uncertain markets, not least because of Laos's appalling infrastructure.

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If they really wanted to do something to pacify the former prisoners, it would be open to both governments but not to their respective monarchs to renegotiate the miserly settlement of claims reached by their predecessors in the 1950s.

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