Unlike other slaving trading posts, nothing was ever built on the island after its abandonment in the mid-1800s.

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By the mid-18th century, though, Britain was the biggest slaving nation, and ports like Bristol, Liverpool and London thrived as a result.

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But Africa's slaving kings and entrepreneurs seem to have squandered their profits.

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Only when they learn that she is, in effect, a Cinderella, slaving away cooking and cleaning, do they come to realise that they can and should be kind to her.

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After slaving for three years building up my firm, the China Market Research Group, positioned as higher than McKinsey in price and quality for strategy projects focused on China, I feared losing it all.

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Rather than move to a different community or continue slaving on a doomed effort, she identified a more serious problem that she wouldn't have seen if she hadn't gotten to know this community in the first place.

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That lowered our monthly payment once again, but the thought of spending the next 15 years slaving away for a mortgage company continued to bother me every day, we started saving even more to pay it down faster.

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He used the same (fake) numbers for different experiments, gave those to his various PhD students to analyze, who then in disbelief slaving away in their adjacent cubicles discovered that their very different experiments led to exactly the same statistical values (a near impossibility).

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But between classical disc-jockeying, slaving at Tower Records ( The Tower That Fell), and writing for classical radio stations, we have channeled our experience to come up with a generic model-listener who has appreciation written all over him or her (enough to have read on thus far), but relatively littleprevious exposure.

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