"Rather than to sell, I'd prefer a fully focused Aaron Mclean who wants to go out and put a shift in because we can't afford anyone better, " he said.

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In a forthcoming study of voters undertaken after the recent presidential elections, Nonna Mayer, a professor at Sciences Po, argues that the increase in support for the National Front can almost entirely be put down to a shift in the allegiance of working-class women.

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Yet most people still put in a decent shift.

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Paterson explained that there has been a huge shift away from a security model where companies put everything in the middle of a network and build a firewall around it.

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Meanwhile, he cited one other key change in the gold market that has helped put a floor under prices in recent years the shift of global central banks to net buyers from net sellers.

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To put it another way, you need radical decentralization and a radical shift to power to parents and children in how schools are run.

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The shift from GNP to GDP a few years back put the emphasis on production by labor and property located in the United States rather than production by U.S. entities worldwide.

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