They may well now put their hats in the ring.

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Is it possible that parent companies have stabilised and even increased local lending because of the ring fencing put in place by regulators during the crisis, rather than because of deliberate management choices?

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But my wife, as soon as she had Internet capability, she re-ordered the ring and she put it on my finger in my neighbor's yard, the place I lost it.

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Having hardly sustained any injuries in the ring -- just one broken thumb -- I seriously put my back out in 2009 when I tripped over a bandage hanging out of my bag.

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Things may come to a head in November with a ballot initiative, put forward by the Sierra Club, an environmental group, to ban any new building in a ring around the city.

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