The glut of new container ships is ending, he notes: the current order book is only 24% of the existing fleet, down from 60% in 2008.

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So much so that he was TAKING NOTES on his computer and DOING CALCULATIONS from equations in the book.

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As the book Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit, edited by Alvaro Vargas Llosa notes, regulations can contribute to worldwide poverty.

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Customers can share highlighted sections, notes and meaningful quotes on Facebook and Twitter directly from Kindle without leaving the book.

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Not really a cookbook, and not really a narrative, Notes From A Kitchen is a unique kind of book, sort of backstage all access pass into the world of culinary arts and the culinary lifestyle.

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No such criticism attended the Bush administration's decision to turn over to Bob Woodward the highly classified notes from "50 National Security Council and other meetings" that became the basis for Woodward's hagiographic book, "Bush at War, " about the campaign to overthrow the Taliban during the fall of 2001.

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