The World Gold Council (WGC) reaffirmed the power of the Love Trade in its 2011 Gold Demand Trends report released this week.

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In their lives and in their tragic deaths they showed the power and strength of love.

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In the aftermath, the characters scatter to other cities in China, or go into exile in Berlin, where the love affairs lose their power they become the last flings of a defeated generation.

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Picasso's work was an embodiment of masculine power, filled with vitality and love of life, up till his death in 1973 at the age of 91.

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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in an interview with an Indian TV network on the day of elections that returned him to power, said he would love to visit India if invited and then, with a disarming chuckle, added that he would go even without an invitation.

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He frames them incisively, ruefully, and nostalgically, as he aims lightheartedly at a darker purpose: connecting love and power, he suggests the virtue of exerting principled authority, whether in business, in politics, or in art and shows the risks that come with the pleasures and responsibilities of doing so.

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Then came the 1960s, a decade not just of flower-power and free love but of social upheaval in which serious crimes soared.

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Gabrielle Aplin's cover version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's The Power Of Love has entered at number 36 after just over 24 hours on sale - it features in the new John Lewis Christmas ad campaign.

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In a society ruled by the love of money and the love of equality, big federal budgets inherently mean big government power a power exercised in a way that far exceeds the limits desired in a free society.

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