After web retailers, the next best group at keeping their customers happy are online auction houses, with an average satisfaction score of 78 (though eBay, which dominates this business, gets an impressive 84).

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Euronext, a continental stock exchange that offers central counterparty and netting services via its clearing house, Clearnet, says it is happy to discuss partnerships with other European clearing houses to find a pan-European solution.

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We're also happy to see that several of our favorite solar houses from the show made it to the top ranks, including Germany's elegant IKAROS house, the ultra-efficient Armadillo Box, and Finland's beautiful wooden Luukku house.

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They build Switzerland's houses and factories, keep its hotel guests happy, and help staff the hospitals.

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More people became owners for the first time, but the less happy consequence was that millions of people began to borrow heavily against their houses, leading to a bust shortly after she left office.

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Only the big auction houses, the supermarkets and the wholesalers who supply them will be happy with the move.

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