If spending were the total story, the New York Yankees should have won the last five World Series.

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Update 31 January 2013: The total figure in this story has been amended following new information from Cleveland Police.

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The next chart from McKinsey tells the story: More than half of total productivity growth comes from computers and information technology.

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In 2006, Disney bought Pixar and since then Iger has given Lasseter free rein to produce unconventional films that on paper seem like they would be total disasters (Ratatouille, the story of a rat in the kitchen) but manage to make millions at the box office.

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How can we explain the near total lack of global interest in this story?

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Yet the story also means the end of total poverty in large parts of the world.

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In total, this is a story of the financial state of the United States of America.

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Aside from the main home, there is also a two-story guesthouse for a total of nine bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and 10, 317 square feet of living space that stretches along 151 feet of beach frontage.

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Earlier Mr Wade told the court that a story which implicated him in Ms Spence's murder was "total fantasy".

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