So tell me, dear reader, why is it that buffets do not succumb to the adverse selection problem and cease to exist?

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Dear Doritos: Why does every commercial stop the action with sound of needle going off a record player when no one plays records anymore?

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This, dear readers, is why God invented the internet.

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And this dear people of America is why capitalism is such a powerful tool.

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Which is why, my dear, we shall be wintering in the Bakkens.

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Prosecutor Alex Prentice QC asked Mr Kerr that if gathering information was "so dear to his heart" why he had not then given a statement to police last month.

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Yet even this does not solve the fundamental riddle: why would companies buy something that is as dear just now as their own shares?

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