There are no reliable figures for the phenomenal growth of the fashion industry, chiefly because its reach is so wide, not just clothes, but everything that goes with them, from buttons to scent.

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Not just because Congress fluffed its big test on the fiscal cliff, but because in doing so it created many more deadlines, any one of which could be deeply unsettling to global markets.

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"To replace the NATO collective defence policy with one in which Scotland is isolated and on its own, is not just a wholly irresponsible policy for defending the country, but the financial costs, and so the taxes and threat to prosperity, would be enormous, " Mr Blair said.

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The VAX remains the single most influential computer of all time--not just because of its pre-eminence among minis in the 1970s and 1980s, but because Ted Hoff so admired it that he used its architecture as the basis of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor.

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