"Some say that he knew, like actually many others in the party, that DSK was doomed: His colorful private life was always bound to prevent his running for president, " Poirer told CNN before the final vote.

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Any settlement endorsed by the two major northern nationalist parties, the two governments and the major unionist party was always bound to meet approval in the south, where people are eager to be rid of the legacy of Irish-British conflict which few think relevant to the last years of the century.

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They will almost always sacrifice ideology to one degree or another because people are bound to disagree.

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That is because in any lower income group, with both an upper and lower bound to the incomes included, the average or mean income will always be much closer to the median.

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To them, Mr Shigeta will always be a spiv with a flaky past a high-school drop-out who was bound to come to a sticky end.

ECONOMIST: Japanese high-tech