On a sweltering afternoon in March, Eoin Slavin, an executive at Rio-based development firm Landis, wandered the mostly forgotten working-class neighborhoods in the shadow of the elevated highway searching for prospects.

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He entered Parliament in 1970, a Bennite class-warrior, joining Labour's shadow cabinet as a transport spokesman in 1979.

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Among the class of 2010, Ms Reeves will become shadow chief secretary to the Treasury and Ms Kendall is named shadow minister for care and older people.

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Marlborough exemplified England's class system, for it lay in the shadow of Marlborough College, one of the nation's great public schools, a preserve of tradition and privilege.

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Credit Suisse estimates that the so-called shadow banking system now totals Rmb22.8 trillion or 44% of GDP, making it the second largest asset class in China!

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