Now let me offer a third reason why diamond investing is a bad idea.
It would be nice to suppose a third reason, that in the end the French are less racist than they think they are.
But they had a third reason to switch to the centre-right: a bright, attractive, young, united and, above all, unthreatening opposition.
But there's a third reason why we're not seeing Meetup and presidential politics line up the way they did eight years ago.
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But it is tempting to offer a third reason for Mr Fabius's summons: that Mr Jospin thinks he will be less of a threat inside his cabinet than outside.
But a third reason is that the 35-hour week is already the terrain for political warfare, with the employers' federation, for example, threatening to abandon its joint administration with the unions of France's social-security funds.
While reading an old New Yorker, I have found a good third reason: too much privacy can drive us insane.
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The reason David Cameron made his definitive pledge to oppose a third runway and the reason every major political party has recently opposed it is that airport noise is extraordinarily unpopular, affects people across dozens of constituencies and pledges to halt it can turn elections.
We never had a plan to transfer anybody either to their home country or to a third country that we believe -- we have reason to believe will present a security situation for us or for that country.
As European leaders draw up plans for a banking union (see article), the third reason Cyprus matters is that it exemplifies the potential costs that would be shared in such a venture.
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The third reason not to own a factory: Only the biggest companies can keep it busy enough.
The third reason: Based on a lot of conversations I had with John and (partner) Ted Schlein, it was very clear that Kleiner was eager to undergo a generational shift.
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Schwab, though, has reinvented itself twice before, and there is no reason it cannot do so a third time.
That's one reason why college enrollment jumped by a third last decade and why for-profit schools that make getting a diploma ultraconvenient now enroll 1 in 10 college students.
The fall in Greek deposits, which are down by nearly a third since the end of 2009, is one reason why the Greek banks are now so dependent on money from the ECB.
The third reason for thinking Mr Prodi may hold on a bit longer is that the grumbles of his allies outside the coalition, the awkward Refounded Communists, are just that.
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The third reason for our deterrent is that it would prevent a cascade of proliferation because of the nuclear umbrella that the United States provides for over thirty-one countries, including many with the technology and resources for the development of nuclear deterrence on their own.
It said in its filing last week that the case had "immense importance to our national economy", and that this should be good reason for the lower court hearings to be skipped for a third time since 1974.
The third main reason for the explosion in pension buy-outs is a sharp fall in the fee that insurers are charging to take on liabilities.
That marks the third week in a row of such price declines that occur for seemingly no fundamental reason.
About 1.45 million, or a third, of workless people cited long-term sickness or disability as the main reason behind their inactivity.
Because a search firm's fee is typically one-third of a new recruit's negotiated annual cash compensation, they have every reason to push up pay.
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The director of campaigns at the Howard League, Andrew Neilson, said a move away from a mandatory target system for police was likely to be the main reason for the third successive fall.
Third, (actually this is the second-and-a-half reason, because I am unclear about how the Spanish government will address it), the independent assessors may conclude that the banks should make greater provisions for possible losses on their loans to the Spanish government - because the price of Spanish government bonds has deteriorated since the IMF determined the haircut or discount that should apply to these bonds.
Responding to the second and third of these, Ms McLaughlan said the cost of glasses should not be a reason not to have an eye test.
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The decision meant that, incredibly, the contest would go into a third day, having been called off at two sets all on Tuesday for the same reason.
Farmers, too, have been quick to use the crisis as a reason to ask for extra help even though subsidies already account for about a third of their income.
While it's true that Alice in Wonderland stars Johnny Depp, is that the reason the movie is poised to stay on top of the box office for a third week in a row?
The third reason is the most powerful of all: that the educated classes still do such a superb job of consolidating and transmitting their privileges.
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