"It's very popular in every culture, " he said.

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"It's a very popular way, and a very easy way, to grow financial services in a country, " he adds.

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It's a very popular style in Hinesville, a town of about 30, 000.

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"It's been a very popular venue, but at times of recession people are looking at every pound they spend, " he added.

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It's tasty, very popular and eaten in vast quantities.

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It's an informal style of singing that is very popular with ordinary Iraqis.

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Now, this is something that's very popular if you just say it in isolation, but when you start explaining what is required to make that happen, then sometimes some people get a little nervous.

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But as Steve mentioned, there's an undertone - even if you take a look at Cantor Fitzgerald, it was very popular to criticise Cantor Fitzgerald at the time when they weren't making funds available.

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Thurber's childlike drawings may survive in popular memory more indelibly than his prose, and it is their very crudeness that makes them so disarming.

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