Also work with the operations group, which handles procurement.

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Lloyds TSB Scotland, which is part of the group, is shutting the division that handles mortgage sales through financial advisers, as it prepares its planned sale to the Co-operative Bank.

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This ignores recommendations made in March by a similar group set up by the Advocate General, Lord Wallace, who handles Scottish legal matters for the British government.

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To begin with, the U.S. is a longtime member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a 140-member group that tries to promote international trade, reduces trade barriers, and handles trade disputes between member countries.

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Next door to a Safeway supermarket on the Edgware Road in London, a group of British accountants and tax experts has built a business service called GlobalExpense that handles employees' expenses over the internet.

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