The rider is holding a stick with a string attached to the end of it.

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The attendees, including European Central Bank head Jean Claude Trichet, are gathering just weeks after the Bernanke Fed halted a string of 17 straight interest rate increases over the last two years, holding its overnight rate to 5.25% after 17 straight increases over the last two years.

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Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A)( BRK.B) on Jan. 9 increased its holding in the company by 1.3%, the latest of a string of 12 DaVita share purchases it made since October, according to GuruFocus Real Time Picks.

FORBES: Berkshire Hathaway Enlarges DaVita Stake as Company Expands

More Gypsies are beginning to lay claim to their own history, holding a string of memorial services across Europe and North America in August to commemorate the month when several thousand of them had been sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.

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