The arrangement involves Microsoft cutting its "factory gate" prices to retailers - schools should still shop around for the best licensing deal, Becta said.

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Brett Willberg, who runs an ice factory, says he has never bothered to fix the electric gate in front of his operation, which does not close.

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Ajjor owns a furniture factory within eyeshot of the Gaza-Israel border and can point out the gate through which not too long ago his products were shipped to Israel.

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