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Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.
ECONOMIST: English memoirs
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His false figures and prevarications caused him to self-destruct.
ECONOMIST: Informed comment
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It is striking that investors are looking for reasons to make riskier investments (buying shares, for example), which most would see as a good sign - although this would be self-defeating if it provided false signals to European government heads that they need to be less bold and ambitious in constructing a three-pronged rescue package for the eurozone.
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