Davis, Kumiega and Van Vliet point out that automated finance unites three professions financial engineers, software engineers and computer engineers but has no one taking ultimate responsibility.

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What unites the three now, in Hoffa's mind anyway, is the sullen desperation of the excluded.

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The official German defence has three parts, broadly, and it unites the centre left and centre right wings of the coalition government.

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