But more amazing still is the indie developer behind the game: Lima Sky is a mere two-man operation, Igor Pusenjak and his brother.

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This, though, wasn't mere plain speaking from a man who loves to be loathed by those he mocks as "the liberati".

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This was mere pocket money to a man of his tastes.

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But mere rumours that Mr Habibie was the president's man helped drive the rupiah down on January 22nd, at one point to 17, 000 to the dollar (last July the rate was 2, 400).

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Perhaps they see simply an old man, further over the hill than Clint Eastwood (a mere 68, compared with 74-year-old Mr Heston) and with a ridiculously poor toupee.

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To Jim Rogers, the man who called the commodity boom seven years ago, those are mere blips.

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