Pot 2 comprises three-time champions Germany, 1968 winners Italy, England and Russia -- who as the Soviet Union won the first tournament held in 1960.

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The two or three packagers broke down the pot into 1.5- and 2-gram parcels, which were placed in plastic canisters and labeled according to type.

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Into the good pot will go about three-quarters of the bank's existing activities, consisting mainly of its British and American banking operations, its insurance division and the less-dangerous bits of its investment bank, which is to be halved in size.

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Behind me Mom and Grandma were sitting on their haunches, chopping dandelions and radishes by a boiling pot, and Dad was rocking three-month-old Baby to sleep.

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Most couples with an estate valued at a few million dollars prefer to leave that directly to their children, because there just isn't a big enough pot of money after two or three generations.

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The guides, like those at Maker's Mark, stress the use of traditional methods: the slow fermentation of sour mash in vats made of cypress, the distillation in copper-pot stills (Labrot and Graham use three instead of the usual two), the regular sampling of barrels by discriminating imbibers with decades of experience, to achieve just the right taste.

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But an average American, who has been saving for three decades in a Keogh account, will accumulate a pot of only 1.6 times salary.

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If you assume that the IMF kept stumping up its share of rescue funds, the pot would be just enough to see Spain through the next three years without having to go to the markets: but it is nowhere near enough to cover Italy too.

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Several devote more than three-quarters of their defence budgets to personnel costs: maintaining armies of greying, pot-bellied dentists, cooks and clerks in khaki, rather than investing in expeditionary troops.

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