And we don't have the name of North Carolina, Syracuse or Georgetown, but we are still here, we show up every single day, and no matter how anybody feels about us, when you step in between those lines we're all equal and we feel like we can take on anybody.

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We show up for jobs by ourselves, and each day is a new venture, no team, no office camaraderie.

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Anecdotal evidence suggests that even the German market is starting to wake up after more than a decade of flat or falling prices, but this has yet to show up the index that we use, which is published with a long lag (there are no figures for 2006).

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