Or to return where we started, everything - including the government's ability to avoid a serious financial crisis in the coming years - hinges on whether the BCC is right that an important recovery is underway in British overseas sales of goods and services.

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And a boss of an office supplies company told the BCC he had spent a year trying to hire someone - but complained that interviewees lacked skills and had an "awful" attitude to work.

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And director-general of the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), David Frost, welcomed the talks.

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Suggested BCC (Belfast City Council) should seriously look at re-homing option.

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"The available evidence still supports the Bank's assessment that after a temporary increase, inflation will come down significantly over the next 12-18 months, " said David Kern, BCC chief economist.

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The new system will be modelled more on chat than traditional e-mail which means there will be no subject lines, cc or bcc fields.

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The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is preparing a report calling for a big rethink of Britain's laissez-faire export policy.

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Suren Thiru, UK economics director at the BCC, said the challenge facing the UK was to develop a "long term economic legacy" post-2012.

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Senators are on notice that New START establishes a Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC) that can, and surely will, make deals that affect the treaty's terms in material ways - and do so without the Senate's advice or consent.

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