Hence this week's announcement to split the firm in four.

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Hence the celebration this week of Hemp History Week.

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Hence the importance, this week, of the first real data.

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Hence the importance of this week's signatures.

ECONOMIST: Do the Shias truly accept the new constitution?

Hence Toyah Willcox told reporters this week that the Throckmorton residents were not anti-asylum seekers and were not racists.

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Hence the Democrats' cheers this week when a criminal investigation of Republican fundraising in Texas reached the inner circle of the House majority leader.

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Hence, we will see this week the Democratic leadership pushing for legislation to punish "speculators" who are their latest whipping boys for the current crisis.

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Hence the opposition's charge this week that Mr Barak was cynically holding the army in south Lebanon hostage to Mr Assad's whims.

ECONOMIST: Middle East peacemaking reawakens

Hence his haste, evident again this week in a decision to call for a demonstration against the budget in Rome on December 2nd.

ECONOMIST: The centre-left holds on for now; can Silvio Berlusconi?

Hence the prime minister's cheerfulness this week.

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Hence the Republicans' decision to call as witnesses this week some firefighters who were denied promotion because of their skin colour.

ECONOMIST: Which Sonia Sotomayor is the Senate about to confirm?

Stockmarkets rallied strongly this week in hope that economic recovery, and hence higher profits, is around the corner.

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Hence the 160 blockades on the roads that brought much of the country to a standstill this week.

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