When we look at Les Demoiselles today we don't simply see a large blue, white and pink painting inspired by Cezanne and African masks, as Matisse and Apollinaire once did.

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Graff will simply christen it: the Graff Blue, the Graff Orange, etc.

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North Carolina State and Wake Forest, whose profit was halved last year, prove once more that when it comes generating green in the Old North State, there's simply no substitute for Tar Heel blue.

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Of course, Mr Letwin and Mr Cameron, both old Etonians, may simply be attempting to put some clear blue water between themselves and the more populist - or wilfully philistine depending on your point of view - elements on Labour's front bench.

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The Blue Devils also fell because they simply spend more than any other team.

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Hundred-year-old pine trees are snapped in half, crumpled metal signs still lie in the roads and there are simply a ton of houses covered in bright blue plastic.

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By so vast a margin did the REITs subsequently excel that the blue chips would have to quadruple tomorrow simply to close the gap.

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Kaplan also thinks some of the biggest companies have been unfairly punished simply because they're big, and he is bullish on the prospects for blue-chips like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).

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For European blue chips to be a profitable investment over the next 1-5 years, the Eurozone simply needs to avoid blowing up.

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