Lazard also has a general problem similar to Cazenove's (see article): it lacks the ability to offer its employees share options, one reason why it has recently lost some of its top partners in both New York and Paris.

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Saarland's CDU government introduced university tuition fees and shut 100 primary schools because there are fewer children to fill them, but that was a big part of the reason the government lost its absolute majority in state elections on August 30th.

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Under South African law as it stood at the time, a company lost its right to the trademark if it languished unused on the books for five years, unless there was a good reason.

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