The Rock has become a tax haven, which a good number of Spaniards benefit from, and needs far-reaching reform, according to both the EU and the OECD.

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The greatest country in the world, the strongest economy in the world, the rock-solid gold standard haven for investors around the world for 100 years -- can we function?

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The SLVR's GSM variants haven't managed to rock many boats, but decently-equipped candybars are a slightly rarer breed on US CDMA networks, so we can imagine some level of excitement here.

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In case you haven't been following the virtual rock and roll scene lately, videogame publisher Red Octane recently revealed that there would be no wireless ax for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II -- even though owners of a "last-gen" console, PlayStation 2, will be able to jam out sans tether.

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This time the instruction was 'pretend you haven't seen it, don't rock the boat'.

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West Angle Bay, on the southern shore of Milford Haven, faces directly out to the mid-channel rock where the Empress foundered and has also been used for many years as a living laboratory by the nearby Orielton Field Studies centre.

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But what will disappoint many MPs and campaigners for mutualisation is that there haven't been any bids from building societies to buy the Rock - with Coventry and Yorkshire building societies both deciding not to submit formal bids by last week's deadline.

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