On the comedy side, there's Cavemen, the much anticipated show based on the GEICO pitchmen, and Carpoolers, a single-camera production featuring an all-male work car pool.

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Mr. Stanley says he created two separate plans envisioning it for either a single female or male, including a two-story pool with aquarium cutouts looking into the ground-floor space, which could be a salon for a woman or a game room or billiard area for a male.

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It's best known feature are the breathtaking twin mountain peaks of the Pitons, and there is no better view on the island than from where Jade Mountain sits - the resort was built with every single "Infinity Pool Sanctuary, " as the suites are called, facing it.

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It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.

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Institutional investors too have become a growing percentage of the buying pool, with hedge funds and private equity firms snapping up thousands of single-family homes in markets like Las Vegas and Tampa, Fla.

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But the church does shift between considering all assets as part of a single pool when that suits, and claiming that funds have always been separate and ring-fenced when they are exposed to claims.

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