Ms. Kiely, who studied fashion and textiles at National College of Art in her native Dublin, worked for four years at Esprit in Germany before moving to London in 1991 to obtain a Master's degree in knitwear at the Royal College of Arts (Harrods bought a small selection of felt hats from her graduation collection).

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It is built on small companies that want to test and refine things, in small dollar increments, with a greater degree of control than ever before possible (thanks to Google, frankly, because they invented or at least perfected the micro-buy known as pay-per-click).

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Son of an accountant, he grew up in a small French town near Saint-Tropez and got a business degree.

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Sebastian Vettel, looking for a small degree of consolation for the year by finishing second to Button in the championship, was fourth quickest in his Red Bull, 0.284 seconds behind Kovalainen.

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For small-business owners in the U.S., April brings with it a certain degree of extra anxiety and stress.

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Kelly had a significant degree of coronary artery disease and that this may have played some small part in the speed of death but not a major cause of death, he added.

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The whole point of the "risk adjusted" element of RAMI is that it's meant to allow at least some degree of comparison between death rates in different hospitals, even if say, one is a small hospital doing very little complex surgery, and another is a large hospital treating a high number of trauma and critical cases.

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