His visual effects company Double Negative is a great success story, with credits on films ranging from Harry Potter to Batman to Inception, for which it won an Oscar.

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Mark Huffam, whose film production credits include Saving Private Ryan and Mamma Mia, becomes a CBE, and there is an OBE for Alex Hope, who runs visual effects company Double Negative and won an Oscar this year for his work on Inception.

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The effects have been double-edged.

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So strong are the effects that, even if Microsoft were to double the price of Windows, many years might elapse before its market share fell from today's level of more than 95%.

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The intent is to hit the tumor with a double punch that is more powerful than Herceptin alone and that limits the side effects associated with chemotherapy.

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From the perspective of Brussels and Berlin, maddening though Athens may be, there is no alternative but to double down on Greece -- because a Greek exit would have huge ripple effects through all the Mediterranean economies (and their banking systems).

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He said the reduction in numbers was down to a "double whammy" of its biggest operator, Air Southwest, cutting services and the effects of the economic downturn.

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That flight of fancy led to the 2007-2008 popping of the mortgage bubble, which gave us the Great Recession, the effects of which are still with us today: 8% unemployment and a double-dip recession in Europe.

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At the start of "Captain America, " the filmmakers had to use digital effects to shrink Chris Evans's massive physique rather than rely on some scrawny actor to be his double.

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