David D'Allessandro, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, a company with festoon privileges, warned recently that the I.

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The transaction had felt flirtatious to him, and the atmosphere of the downtown, beneath its drooping festoon of useless cables, seemed festive.

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On November 13th he called for a nine-point European pact on the future of employment, including crash programmes to expand power grids and to festoon the countryside with broadband networks.

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Say, just as an example, that I was importing the neodymium oxide which was going to be used to make the magnets to go into one of those windmills which the Greens want to festoon the country with.

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