Topped with a crown made entirely from sugar, the cake reflects the Silver, Gold and Diamond Jubilees, the Royal Navy, the Army and Royal Air Force.

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The tax created a cheap labor force for the whites who owned the coal mines and the diamond mines and the mills.

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It has the penetrative force of a piece of heavy industrial equipment, something with a diamond bit or tempered-steel blades.

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Rose, a licensed airplane pilot who joined Global Marine straight out of the Air Force in 1963, watched the carnage from a comfortable distance, having jumped over to rival Diamond Offshore Drilling in 1976.

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Only when such a force is established, however, can he hope to win control over the country's rich diamond deposits and other valuable resources.

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As for the eurozone in the round, Mr Diamond believes there is no probability of the currency union disintegrating and he stresses that a strong euro would be a force to promote global prosperity.

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