In the previous century, Jesuit missionaries had brought back the first substantial accounts of the Chinese language, and many philosophers were taken with the notion that its characters signified concepts rather than sounds, and that a single ideogram could have the same meaning to people all over East Asia, despite sounding completely different in each tongue.

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By all means, many believe, an enlarged and more representative civil society - ideally a larger, wider group of people from all over the country, not just a bunch of well meaning lawyers and activists from Delhi - should be putting pressure on a stubborn government to act against corruption.

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He said that the government had a set a deadline of March 2014 for all NHS trusts to become foundation trusts, meaning they would have greater freedom over how money is spent.

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This ratio also ranks above 99% of all those taken during the past year, meaning that options traders have rarely snatched up calls over puts at a faster rate in the past year.

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Generous depreciation rules allow businesses to deduct more (or all) of the cost of investments in the first year, rather than depreciating over a number of years, meaning the business can reduce its taxable income upfront.

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