Without long-term, paid-up capital, it is hard to write multi-year policies, let alone to organise insurance-backed bond issues or derivatives.

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As The Economist points out, it is the second multi-billion dollar write down in successive quarters.

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Kane, who previously wrote and directed This Year's Love, says it took him around five months to write the multi-layered script - longer than he would have liked.

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Users can quickly type using the on-screen keyboard and navigate through the slate's features with the highly responsive capacitive multi-touch screen, or write naturally on the screen using an electromagnetic pen, making it easy to take meeting notes, create documents and reports in Microsoft Office 2010, or browse online.

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The M5 Pro has the ability to consistently deliver high read and write speeds for all forms of data and use the multi-core controller to handle extreme high loads.

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The Brahma15 is a 21, 000 DMIP Quad-core ARMv7-A instruction set compatible multiprocessor. 32KB instruction and 32KB data caches per processor are backed by a shared 2MB L2 cache and feed the multi-issue, out-of-order superscalar 15-stage plus write back pipeline of the Brahma15.

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