The house itself had an open-air courtyard, intimately connected to the gardens and the sea by large rooms that could be opened in such a way that no walls interrupted the flow of people or air from the patios to the courtyard, which was filled with sun and palm trees.

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But every now and then the coupon flow is interrupted by a default.

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Beauxis interrupted his captain's flow with the conversion before Parisse crossed for his second score after 52 minutes.

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To repeat the important mantra, when it is hard and expensive for banks to raise finance, the flow of vital credit to the economy can be interrupted and the price of credit can rise - and a weak economic recovery, of the sort we are experiencing, can be snuffed out.

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