For me, the big puzzle is not the UK stock market's performance, but the continued strength of markets across the Channel.

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The big puzzle is the timing of this affair.

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"It's like a big jigsaw puzzle, " says Ted Gifford, an operations research scientist at Schneider.

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R. is a big piece to the puzzle and I hope he's learned his lesson, and we've got to move on with it and he's got to be ready to go tomorrow night.

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But the unexpectedly big effect that climate change could have on body size suggests that we may be missing a big piece of the puzzle of understanding climate change effects in the ocean.

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And he's a big part of the puzzle.

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Liquidity is a big part of the puzzle.

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From the looks of the overseas markets and the big open, all the pieces of the puzzle have come into place.

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"Putting that puzzle together with the right type of individuals is big, " Towers said.

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"One of the most likely explanations of the so-called 'productivity puzzle' is that companies are either reluctant or unable to make big investments in new plant, machinery and equipment, perhaps due to the uncertain economic outlook or a lack of available finance, or a combination of both, " he said.

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The puzzle that needs to be solved when thinking about establishing a next generation challenger brand, as Eat Big Fish say, is how do you adopt this approach without coming across as too aggressive towards the establishment?

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