Locals, as a general rule, redesign their homes in the winter.

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But, as Australia themselves have shown, those long, hard winter tours can be made the exception rather than the rule.

BBC: Duncan Fletcher

This winter Ace's U.S.-based competitors raised a stink about a tax rule that enables a corporate parent in Bermuda to import premiums free of corporate income tax by reinsuring some policies sold by its American subsidiary.

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