On April 30th, it claimed, erroneously, that the Pearson Group, which owns a slice of El Mundo and the whole of the Financial Times (of London), which in turn owns half of The Economist, is bent on buying Mediaset, the company embracing Mr Berlusconi's television empire.

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And owners of capital are grabbing a bigger slice of the cake relative to workers as a whole.

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North Goa, best known for its package holiday- and party-friendly resorts of Calangute, Baga and Candolim, as well as its flea market at hippyish Anjuna, also offers a whole host of atmospheric delights for those keen to experience a slice of life of an older, more "authentic" Goa.

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Twenty-five years ago, the slice taken by financial firms was about a seventh of the whole.

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As for the mayor's contention that the whole shebang is "pleasurable, " I have to admit that after seeing a tiny slice of the city's vast system, the specter of homelessness isn't quite as scary as it was before.

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Each point in each slice of a CT scan is essentially a separate test, and the chance that a whole body CT scan is going to turn up something somewhere that looks funny is nearly 100%.

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