• Feddis adds that if it seems likely that customers won't be able to pay their debts, it's in no one's interest for them to continue racking up charges.

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  • Given the congested state of British roads, it is in no one's interest, not even that of the lorry drivers, that this absurdly tilted playing field should be made any worse.

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  • TV's interest in Formula One.

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  • There's also the added interest that the plant will be located in one of the UK Government's Enterprise Zones.

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  • The chancellor is wary of cutting loose: in Treasury eyes, one of the advantages of the Bank's control of interest rates (handed over by Mr Brown in 1997) is the discipline it exerts on fiscal policy.

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  • In fact, one of the reasons the U.S. economy is in such bad shape is that interest rates are already too low.

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  • So for all President Clinton's insistence on the finality of this week's "deadline" for Mideast peace, one can safely presume he has little interest in an agreement during the long weekend he's about to spend in Okinawa.

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  • In the meantime the FSA's advice is to be aware that one person can create the impression of widespread interest in one stock by posting messages under aliases.

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  • In one case, a U.S. company sold stock in a Hong Kong company that owned a 49% interest in a Chinese joint venture.

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  • One other bank that might take an interest in Citigroup's assets is also based in the United Kingdom: Standard Chartered.

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  • The relentless, single-minded dedication to one's passions that Rand seems to favor requires a coldness of the soul, a narrowing of one's humanity--the natural interest in the fortune of others that Smith alludes to--that most people find is not exactly conducive to their happiness.

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  • The Rumsfeld report was one of the impulses behind America's renewed interest in missile defence, to which Mr Bush is committed.

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  • For one thing, the United States retains a strong interest in Pakistan's stability, lest it fall prey to Islamic extremists like those in Afghanistan (see box).

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  • Jim Larsen, one of Dr Gray's colleagues, has a particular interest in this aspect of the work.

    ECONOMIST: Medical technology

  • One explanation lies in the surge in house prices, where the Fed's interest-rate cuts have certainly worked their magic.

    ECONOMIST: International house prices

  • But times change, and Mr MacAdams's outfit is now one of several that take an interest in the river.

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  • With criminal revenues like this, there is little wonder that Bosnia's politicians have shown scant interest in creating an economy that might one day stand on its own feet.

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  • In the interest of full disclosure, U.S. Steel was one of featured short sales in our May 19 issue, and subscribers and our management may have positions from those higher levels.

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  • As one interest group put it: It's like throwing something in a 40-foot hole a 10-foot rope.

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  • At one point Reijtenbagh tried to sell his interest in the whole deal to Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.

    FORBES: OutFront

  • Our goal is to ensure that taxpayers in any instance where this money is used feel confident that it's being done in a transparent and accountable way, and one that protects their interest.

    WHITEHOUSE: White House Press Briefing

  • All along, both Russia and the West have been taking a close interest in Ukraine's election, not just because it is one of eastern Europe's largest countries, with 49m people, but because the outcome could have important consequences for the whole region.

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  • Behind this renewed interest in traditional medicine is a palpable sense of pride in reviving one's heritage.

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  • By contrast, China's state-owned oil companies have no direct interest in Angolan oilfields, one of their two biggest sources of crude.

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  • Those two chances were the sole points of interest in a largely subdued first half, watched by one of Liverpool's lowest gates of the season.

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  • "The franchisee has more skin in the game, " says William Ackman, a hedge-fund founder who is soon to be one of Burger King's newest investors through his fund's interest in Justice Holdings Ltd.

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  • That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book.

    NPR: Part One

  • It's one of those things where people have an interest historically, rather than in a gruesome way.

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  • It means that the decision is one of proportionality - is a breach of an individual's human rights necessary in the national interest?

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  • It's one of two mobile phone operators in the country and boasts operating margins (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation) of 65%--among the highest in the world, says Periquet.

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