Less than a year after the White Star Line-owned vessels left the city, the Nomadic was employed to transport first and second class passengers from the French port of Cherbourg to the Titanic ahead of its ill-fated maiden Atlantic voyage.

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According to an academic paper published recently, people born soon after the second world war were much more likely to move out of their parents' class than those born in later decades.

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In the second decision, a federal judge in New York chucked out a class-action suit after discovering that the plaintiff, a labor-union pension fund, never owned the shares it claimed it lost money on.

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Collingwood's total was more than the rest of his first-class innings this summer put together, and came after he had been dropped from the team for the second Test because of his poor form.

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