To make matters worse, some claim that their handset was scratched straight out of the box, with the damage having occurred at the assembly plant before the iPhone 5 was put into the box.

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Based on the actual successes of the group's entrepreneurial member companies, Croissance Plus argued in the National Assembly that if the same Ffr100 billion was instead put into a privately managed venture-capital fund, it would create 1.8 million skilled private-sector jobs over five years--and return the Ffr100 billion, with a profit, to the taxpayers.

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