His lack of intellectual pretension, his gargantuan appetite for wine and food and his deep love for the French countryside have ensured him a solid base of affection.

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Tapping into the country's prospering urban middle class and, more recently, its relatively unbanked countryside, ICICI has built its customer base up to 27 million.

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They can fly missions from Kaposvar, Hungary, to the United States base at Tuzla, Bosnia, and get a good look at the countryside along the route without climbing into a real cockpit.

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