"We simply can't go on while TB increases its vice-like grip on family farms" argues the president of the NFU Peter Kendall.

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But the only way to move forward is to loosen the vice-like grip these fears have on your life, your soul, your mind, and your body.

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But assuming it does fall - and few doubt that it will - what then will be the next step of the Tamil Tiger leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has run his organisation over the years with a vice-like grip?

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"The financial crisis ends up putting a tighter grip on the supply of money, " says Brian Matas, vice president of market research at IC Insights.

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