Adam is a pupil at West Denton Primary School and has a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Tess - the same breed of dog that attacked him.

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Reagan was very much the same breed of politician.

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That other banks are doing the same thing tends to breed confidence, rather than caution.

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At the same time, a new breed of online financial advisory firm is out to do what human advisers do, only with software and without the mazes of fees and conflicts of interest that can plague traditional brokerage firms.

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Charismatic and forceful enough to have made a fortune in their own right, yet conformist enough to have stayed with the same firm for life, they have always been a somewhat exotic breed.

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