The 1970s saw innovation in financial futures, the 1980s and 1990s in derivatives, and in the following decade innovation was around the structure and ownership of exchanges as they de-mutualized and went from pit trading to electronic trading, a move which brought more participants into the markets.

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Paul Andreu designed the first terminal at Charles de Gaulle, north of Paris, as a doughnut-shaped structure with glass tubes crossing through the middle, but when it came time to expand the airport, in the nineteen-eighties, only a few years after the first part was finished, his futuristic form seemed more like a cartoon than like a functional building, and more conventional terminals were ordered up.

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Paris has always resented Washington's post-World War II dominance in Western Europe, which is why Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO's military structure in the mid-1960s.

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Now, Prof Bert de With of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and his colleagues have discovered a nano-structure solution to the problem.

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