Latinos come north looking not just for bread-and-butter jobs but for a ladder into the middle class, and to a remarkable extent they are proving successful, as figures for both business start-ups and home ownership demonstrate.

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Moreover, Labour will stress not devolution, but bread-and-butter issues such as jobs, health and crime in its campaign.

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Signal Hill Group analyst Michael Carboy said Wuxi, China-based Suntech's "bread-and-butter piece of business" was not expected to move the company's stock price significantly, and pointed out that due to "a fair degree of concern that the Spaniards will announce adverse revisions to its incentive structure" in the sector, many solar stocks have fallen in recent days.

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But if it is not introduced in the coming year, the government would face the prospect of trying to over-ride the Lords in the run-up to the 2015 General Election - just when ministers would much rather be focusing on bread-and-butter issues, not abstruse constitutional matters.

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The first arises from the fact that getting a candidate elected is not all that different from doing the bread-and-butter business of union life.

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It is not just about having bread - it's about having butter and, occasionally, a dollop of jam too.

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Admittedly, standardized consumer-based products are not Cisco's bread and butter.

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The problem is not that they lack for philanthropy but that city government has itself disinvested in such bread-and-butter matters as park maintenance.

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But for the vast majority of poor black South Africans what matters most are bread-and-butter issues, such as housing, health and education, not the niceties of the law.

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