But Burt Rutan, 61, has only ever read one sci-fi book: Carl Sagan's Contact.

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The aerospace giants felt it was impossible, but Burt Rutan flew into space.

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But summing up, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt insisted the government was still engaged in Europe despite Mr Cameron using the veto last month.

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Everyone remembers Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in the surf, but stay with that scene and you soon find it foaming with accusation and shame.

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Lib Dem Lorely Burt said what mattered was "not how we got here but how we get out".

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"Stuyvesant was not necessarily a reflection of the bad real estate market, but rather over-ambitious assumptions, lack of risk controls and poor contingency planning, " explains Burt White, managing director of research and chief investment officer of LPL Financial, further asserting that the bottom dropped out of the market months ago.

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