Controlling for climate, researchers figured out baselines for various building types (such as residence halls or laboratories) throughout the UC and California State University systems.

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The elegant 81-room Shangri-La Hotel opened in 2010 among the embassies and mansions in the Trocadero district, after a four-year revamp of a building that was once the residence of Roland Bonaparte, grandnephew of Napoleon.

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It found that Mr Laws had not only broken the rules by claiming rent paid to a landlord who was also his partner, but had also overpaid for the accommodation, wrongly designated his constituency home as his main residence and made unwarranted claims for phone bills and building work.

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