Ditas explained Spanish men to me in pantomime (I barely spoke the language) a few days after I arrived: "If you give one your fingernail, he'll take half your arm, " was her gist.

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In its latest incarnation, Fenelon's window regulator is less than half the weight of the arm-and-sector design, 2 pounds rather than 5.

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Half is held by the arm of telecommunications concern BCE, soon to control the Globe and Mail, the nation's largest commercial television network (CTV) and Sympatico, the largest Internet portal.

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