Making some fairly radical changes in your diet can reduce bad cholesterol by up to 30% in only four weeks, a recent University of Toronto study found.

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Certainly private companies are subject to the same tendency for staff creep, but (as we have seen in this recession) they are fairly ruthless in correcting this when times turn bad.

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If you're new to wine, Pinot Grigio may not be a bad place to start, as its fairly neutral character won't startle the palate, and it is a good jumping-off point for further exploration.

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Not bad at all, and actually, fairly authentic.

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And, because it is fairly young, it has a much smaller legacy of bad loans than the big state banks.

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So people are fairly used to the press saying good things about us and bad things about us.

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For new PC buyers, Windows 7 is still a fairly new OS. But Windows Vista proved to be so bad (and so draining to weak hardware) that people were eager to upgrade.

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Also, Barclays says that it has already taken fairly substantial charges to cover the risk of loans to Spanish companies going bad.

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Probably not, though by the lights of 15th-century Europe he was not a particularly bad one, and if Sir Peter muddies what has been till now a fairly spotless reputation, he nevertheless presents a far more fascinating man in a superbly written and thought-provoking book.

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