Car drivers honk horns and wave flags bearing the country's national red and white colors.

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For all of 10 minutes Tories who oppose the euro gathered outside the conference hall by the sea in Bournemouth to wave banners bearing the legend "Keep The Pound" .

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For regular folks it seemed hand-to-mouth as usual, but soon I became aware of something new stirring: a tidal wave of foreign capital was bearing down on Haiti's shores.

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