And it's this very measure that they were forced to drop from the Counter Terrorism Bill earlier this year after clear signs that MPs and peers would oppose inquests behind closed doors.

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The drop may seem counter-intuitive due to the better-than-expected GDP figures, but Hogan said the relationship between bonds and stocks is skewed from historic norms because bonds already so low due to disruptions in the credit markets emanating from the U.S. subprime crisis.

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It has been restructuring over the past two years to try to counter a drop in ferry passengers, partly thanks the phenomenal growth of low-cost airlines like Ryannair and stiff competition from the likes of Eurotunnel.

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There's still an old-fashioned check-in counter, but most of the baggage drop points are self service.

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Close to home, that runs counter to the drive to extract every last drop of oil from under UK (or Scottish) waters.

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" Emerging in late afternoon from the darkness of a movie theater is just as bad: "Local sunlight after rain had, quite unaided, the power not just to make my spirits drop--many things did that--but to convince me, beyond anything that could counter, that life would never again have anything to offer me.

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