Larger countries such as Spain or Italy struggling to ease their debt loads might then become vulnerable, potentially triggering wider eurozone upheaval and even a global financial crisis to rival the one of 2008.

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Then there was money lost by wheelbarrow loads trying to enter the data and mobile businesses too late, and with little new to offer.

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And then there was the business of dealing with bus loads of women who turned up in their hundreds and thousands every weekend and at points throughout the week to offer part-time support for the best part of five years.

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Normally a private-equity firm buys a company, loads it with debt, fixes a few things, then flips it.

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As I say, there is loads of carbon footprint info all over the web - read, digest, calculate and then of course it's up to you to decide what to do about it.

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During the same period, teaching loads for an overwhelming number of our professors were reduced from four courses a semester to three, and then to two courses per semester.

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