Others are at rigid, ultra-handsome attention. (Boston owners know what I'm talking about.) There are Boston Terriers on fine china.

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Obviously if it were her own it would have come out looking like a fine china tea cup and smelling of spring's early blooms.

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Her family balked at the idea, so she compromised and registered for fine china and servingware, to give some guests a traditional option, and the honeymoon, for friends who want to contribute to that experience.

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The official line is that everything will be fine if China continues on its current path of development.

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In any case, it felt like a king's ransom, and along with the fine crystal and china, Simon's flowing Hebrew and Henry's starlet, the evening always felt somewhat magical.

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Even when news stories play it straight down the "he says, she says, " line, who, as a parent, are you going to believe: the company protesting that its toy, usually assembled in China, is just fine and dandy, or the "watchdog" group warning that it's frighteningly dangerous and waving a test to prove it?

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China is having to continually fine-tune its property regulations and policies to allow development while ensuring afford ability and steadier, longer-term price increases.

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Although G8 summits are renowned for fine communiques, the group increasingly suffers from a credibility problem - some of the world's largest economies like China, India and Brazil are not members, says BBC world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan.

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