She gave the agency the usual terms of paying 30 days in arrears, but it used its corporate credit card, hitting Pierce with a 3% card-processing fee on top of the monthlong wait.

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Considered in the light of the usual (mercantilist) terms for judging trade deals, the arguments in favour of the Chinese agreement look overwhelming.

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The evidence suggests that the Internet is not only getting faster in absolute terms, as one might expect given the usual march of technology, but growing even faster than demand.

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Reducing the amount of waste being produced makes a great deal of sense, provided it does not cost more, in either environmental or financial terms, than disposing of it in the usual way.

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When we put the point in these terms we find ourselves coming right back to the usual old arguments about how large government should be: for it is about the value that we get from the marginal amount of government.

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But this is more than the usual commodities cycle or host governments working out how to get better terms from international competition.

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Whether it's about Greece, 'soft restructuring', or the chances of Ireland extracting softer terms for its emergency borrowing, Europe has been producing its usual cacophony of voices in the past few days, none of them saying quite the same thing.

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Or, in simpler terms, short-term options traders are much more put-heavy than usual right now.

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However, we expect a more conservative guide than usual because of our belief that the iPhone 5 will launch in October, while the Street has mixed expectations in terms of timing.

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