The club is figuring on a boost from 19, 000 to 35, 000 a game in its state-of-the-art home (yet to fetch a corporate naming rights deal), one that will bring protection from the heat and rain in addition to the standard upscale amenities.

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Yet these merchants currently export a third more than in 2001, as waste-cardboard exports to China fetch some 20% more than at home.

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They can tell you how the value of any home stacks up against what it would fetch on the rental market.

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The type of home also matters: A mansion will fetch more than an average middle-class house, although movies need a lot of those, too.

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Just watch one woman saying how difficult is for her to sustain when she does not have electricity at home and she has go travel long to fetch kerosene oil to light up her lamp at night.

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There are, however, doubts that Greece can realise its ambitions, partly because the absence of a land registry means that the government may not have clear legal title to all of the things it wants to sell, partly because it is not clear what price they could fetch, and partly because privatisation arouses political opposition at home.

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The remodel, therefore, might not fetch as high a return as if the rest of the home were brought up to the same level.

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Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.

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