In Europe the U.K. is a fast-growing market.

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The Republicans celebrated last month's triumph by fast-tracking several K-Street favourites: exempting older coal-fired plants from new anti-pollution rules, and making it easier to open national forests to logging and drilling.

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Others learned early that equations beat etchings (picture book writers, once considered the "academicians of the nursery, " have been trampled on the fast track to pre-K).

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Blundy, who was often in the U.K. for his music-store business, had been looking for a new venture in fast fashion, and he wanted a vertically integrated business like Bras N Things.

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