The way it might work is that the typical replicator will have patterns stored for common things, but the owners of something really special like Bass Ale will figure out a way to encrypt the structure so that they can charge you on a per unit basis.

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As workers started to lay a wooden brace at the base of the dome, Brunelleschi suddenly became bedridden, leaving Ghiberti in charge of building a structure he had not designed.

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The analysis in the speech he gave last night in Frankfurt, "Debt and deleveraging, long-term and short-term challenges", also implies that - on the basis of the eurozone's current rules and structure - it is rational for investors to charge more for lending to any eurozone government (even Germany's) than to governments such as those of the US or UK which have their own respective currencies and central banks.

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With Gen Petraeus taking over at Centcom, some Nato partners wobbling about keeping troops in Afghanistan and the US presidential election like to produce a new focus on the conflict there, one thing we can expect is for a clearer command structure to be established in 2009 with the Americans more obviously in charge.

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If the structure is too complicated to create using a single hologram, then the pattern of charge on the electrodes can be changed to add extra features.

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And if that were not bad enough, they copied it incompetently, failing to charge the full price of power, or to set up an orderly regulatory structure, or to develop capital markets to fund new investment.

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During Wilkinson's spell in charge, he produced his Charter for Quality, which was designed to provide a structure for the development of young players at club academies that would go on and compete for England.

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