But for the silly chaps, said Christopher Cockerell, we would still be living in the stone age.
In the public gallery, a small coterie of chaps in striped jumpers and black masks groaned, audibly.
Peter Marino, the architect famous for his black leather chaps and caps, has worked on several LVMH stores.
Private-equity firms do not often have to deal with chaps like Mr Ecclestone, who has dominated the sport for decades.
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Again, the aim was clearly to make sure that the chaps at the top have lifebelts if the ship sinks.
Yardena Rand, author of Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns, takes several chaps-clad cowboys along when she speaks at bookstores.
Analysts at payments association Apacs say that that no significant peak has been spotted on transactions through the Chaps transmission service.
They are therefore waiting for the chaps with dirty hands who actually run the accelerators to provide them with something surprising.
Needless to say, the wives are a lot younger than the chaps.
The various parts of this system (BACs, CHAPS etc) are largely owned by the main established UK banks and effectively self regulated.
With a large portfolio of brands, the company offers products at every price point from discount (Chaps) to luxury (Ralph Lauren Collection), widening its target demographic.
The little chaps don't get off the hook entirely though.
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The Big Picture Library is the brainchild of two chaps called Jack and Matt, whose one burning desire is to give you a decent way to display your albums online.
However, two-thirds of this self-selected sample were men, many of them in white-collar jobs: just the sort of chaps most likely to have a third party of their own tucked away somewhere.
On Thursday, he was dressed to ride, wearing chaps, jeans and spurs before getting on this horse and taking Oxbow, Titletown Five and Will Take Charge to the track for their morning run.
Unfortunately, you're still forced to have a small dose of human interaction, as the eatery hasn't quite figured out how to fire replace those chaps bringing the meals to your table just yet.
The result, when processed through the computers of Arbonaut, a Finnish natural-resource-management company, is a three-dimensional image of the forest that can be correlated with, and calibrated by, the efforts of the chaps with the tape measures.
And it calls for powers for regulators to punish former directors, rather than accepting an assurance that they're off quietly to spend more time with their pensions, and, er, not to worry, chaps, they won't be troubling the financial sector again.
One of the most successful mergers in pharmaceuticals, between Sandoz and Ciba Geigy to form Novartis, was between two firms whose closeness of approach was the greater for being based in the same Swiss town (and doubtless run by chaps who had done national service together).
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.
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Since Anna, Martin and Christopher know you can't get enough of this excitement, Anna had another letter published in the Guardian (Facebook wall for the literati, apparently), addressed to both the chaps, bringing in a bit more detail about who smoked what cigarette, for how long, and where and when.
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