On one side of the net was the terrier-like Mr Chang, an old-school defensive player whose Herculean legs help him run down every ball.
"I think people have figured out that first and foremost if you exclude pet owners, you're excluding a large number of high net-worth people and prospective buyers, " Mr. Marrow said.
The net effect of Mr Osborne's various tax-raising and tax-cutting changes will be to raise revenue by 0.4% of GDP by the end of the parliament.
Mr Bremer promised a safety-net for redundancies, suggested that the elusive oil revenue might one day be paid out as dividends to Iraqis, and unveiled plans for a new army which two years hence would be just 10% of its former 400, 000-man strength.
Hence, Mr Grasso's compensation and benefits for 1999-2001 nearly equalled the exchange's total net income for the period, according to Mr Spitzer's office.
"If you have a sleepover and 15 girls with hairdryers, you're not going to have a net-zero home, " said Nexus Energy Homes' Mr. McIntosh.
Against that challenging backdrop, it is striking that Mr Horta-Osorio says Lloyds has boosted net commercial lending - that's after repayments - by 2%.
To see how consistent they have been, Mr Evans reran his calculations using net profit and market-capitalisation figures for previous years.
As a result, Mr Parry finds, the net benefits of a road-specific peak-period fee (the gain of less congestion minus the cost of disrupted travel) would be about three times bigger than a petrol-tax increase calculated to curb congestion by the same amount.
To avoid being tagged a "net utopian, " Mr. Johnson warns that the Internet is not a cure-all.
"This is the only group with no net contribution to the fiscal well-being of state and national government, " says Mr. Sum.
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Walt Disney animated feature, a Star Wars entry, and the offhand Disney-specific franchise entry (think Pirates of the Caribbean 5, coming summer 2015) means that Disney will have an annual slate of almost predetermined blockbusters without even breaking a sweat, which in turn will give them the financial safety net to withstand the periodic John Carter and make occasional non-tent poles like the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks.
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" I have a hunch that he means the tough-minded Tati who made "Playtime" -- a difficult, seldom-seen experimental comedy that also starts with drum riffs on the soundtrack -- more than the gently whimsical Tati who puffed a pipe and toted a butterfly net in "Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
The inflows more than offset the net cash that investors had yanked from the fund last year as Mr. Gross was stung by ill-timed wagers on Treasury bonds.
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