Instead of handing the lucrative work to the first law firm that filed a case, judges were supposed to appoint the combination of plaintiff and law firm that best represented the interests of the class.

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Mark Hastings, of the British Beer and Pub Association, said the figures showed the combination of flexible opening hours and law enforcement was having a "positive impact".

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Maybe it's the combination of the thrill in breaking the law, the large sums of money and the beauty of the works involved that fascinate us so much.

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But for a century efforts to reform libel law thoroughly have foundered on a combination of lawyerly self-interest, bureaucratic timidity and a quiet belief among many lawmakers that the media is already too careless with other people's reputations (not least with politicians' good names).

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Ultimately, the biotech hopes the agency will change its interpretation of the law so that drugmakers would be encouraged to develop more fixed-dose combination drugs.

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Suddenly we not only had a new form of measurement, reducing events to the binary combination of 1s and 0s, but a pathway (ultimately described by Moore's Law) to making that measurement evermore precise.

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