They're so convoluted and measurement defying, they're often sold by the pound instead of board foot.
Julian Harman, also from Camelford, was ordered to pay costs for selling Brussel sprouts by the pound.
Colin Hunt, of Hackney, East London, was given a 12-month conditional discharge for pricing pumpkins by the pound.
In response, the company reverted to selling strawberries by the pound for the first time in over a decade.
Yearling cattle are weighing in 100 pounds lighter than normal, and since ranchers are paid by the pound, that means less money.
In the last year, there has been a 15% to 16% fall by the pound against the euro, says McFarlane, and next year the same configuration should also be in play vs. the dollar.
Smaller is not always better, but it's not unlikely that a guy making his own wine with his own grapes is going to take better care of them than someone who sells them by the pound to a corporation.
The textile industry, which has been suffering for many months, undone at first by the strong pound and since by thin demand in the shops, had more bad news this week when Courtaulds Textiles, a large manufacturer, said that it would probably cut 1, 200 jobs at Claremont Group, a clothing supplier to (currently troubled) Marks and Spencer which it bought a few weeks ago.
Sure, in the long run, they might do OK by readopting the pound and devaluing it, but in the short term it would be ruinous.
The classic sounds of Los Endos by Steve Hackett, formerly of Genesis, and Close to the Edge by Yes pound out from the stage as musicians who made their names selling millions of albums back in the 70s play in front of their adoring fans.
Manufacturers, disproportionately based in the north, are still worried by the strength of the pound against the euro.
Some areas may do better than others: posh London pads may be attractive to foreign buyers lured by the cheap pound.
Anyway, exporters often say that they are irked as much by the instability of the pound against the euro as by its level.
Output from auto firms, hit by the strong pound and global restructuring drives, is expected to fall 6.6%, following a 3.8% decline last year.
Inflation has remained above the Bank of England's 2% target since December 2009, pushed up in recent months by the weakness of the pound.
Fuelled by the weak pound, which has made Britain much cheaper for Europeans than two years ago, Edinburgh has been enjoying a tourist boom.
Hundreds of thousands of rural business owners are having a torrid time due to foot-and-mouth disease, and the manufacturing sector has been crippled by the strength of the pound.
Autopsy results revealed the reddish-haired young woman died quickly of a broken neck, possibly from a paw swipe by the 550-pound lion, and the numerous bites and scratches she sustained were inflicted after she died.
And with Nationalist expectations that they would win far more seats than they did having been dashed, Mr Salmond is already having to deal with internal criticism of the campaign he ran, especially the decision to promise to raise the basic rate of income tax by 1p in the pound.
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The euro fell by 1% against the British pound and twice as much against the Japanese yen while it is down by almost that amount against the Swiss franc in what many regard as a litmus test for the stability of the region.
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The commission proposes letting the Scottish government vary income-tax rates by 10p in the pound in each tax band.
As of the September month-end, the euro has increased in value by 10.3% against the U.S. dollar since June 19, the pound by 6.3%, and the yen by 7.8%.
By Friday of last week good money was betting against the UK pound but by Monday morning the Euro was back in the frame, courtesy of an Italian election that looked likely to favor anti-austerity politicians.
The power to use the tartan tax, which can raise or lower income tax by 3p in the pound lapsed in 2007.
From 2003 to 2006, he says, the British pound strengthened by 28 percent against the dollar.
The authority will still own the multi-million pound assets controlled by the trust.
The councillors see the scheme as complementing other developments such as the Fens Waterway Link, a multi-million pound project by the Environment Agency, British Waterways and Lincolnshire County Council.
The handset will be supported by a multimillion pound advertising campaign, featuring the Orange ninja creative which will commence in June.
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But that is not enough to save it from cost pressures caused by the level of the pound against the euro.
Interest rates are unlikely to rise as sharply as had been expected in November, partly because monetary policy has already been tightened since then by the appreciation of the pound.
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