Ministers have let slip that they could not afford to revamp their training facilities if the government had to assume the costs at the start, rather than spreading payments over decades.

ECONOMIST: Defence spending

Certainly those I talked to on the show floor of Nokia World gave out the vibes of working at a fast moving start-up rather than a company over one hundred years old.

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Having now lost five of their last six, Steve Bruce's men may now start looking over their shoulder rather than ahead.

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On balance, people now think that their own personal finances will improve rather than get worse over the next 12 months, a turnaround from the gloomy mood at the start of 2009.

ECONOMIST: The return of thrift

You do it over and over and over again, and then, yeah, you start not wanting to miss rather than wanting to, you know, make the winner.

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