The winner in all this would seem to be Porsche, which could end up making a tidy packet from the two-day jump in Volkswagen's share price.

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Since the mid-1990s, the proportion of 12th-grade pupils who believe smoking a packet or two of cigarettes a day carries a great risk has risen by about ten percentage points.

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Each day, he sent to her house, on Dupont Circle, a packet of billets-doux and state documents.

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