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Thenardier , the smarmy and scheming innkeeper and his baleful wife do plenty to influence the plot line of Les Miserables.
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The supply-chain track, in particular, has generated enormous interest in the business community, where logistics has a growing influence on the bottom line.
ECONOMIST: News from the schools, April 2006
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The bars, which show the sum of the influences on inflation, would as a rule track the bold line, showing the influence of unemployment, quite closely.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus
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Somewhere along the line we need to get under that influence system to understand what people really do enjoy.
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Bath's play in the first half was electric and their offloading and back-line moves had Brian Ashton's influence all over it.
BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | English | Bath 31-16 Bristol
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In practice, defining the difference between reasonable criticism and improper influence may prove every bit as difficult as drawing a precise line between perception and reality.
BBC: Perception and reality
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Eastmond started to exert more influence on the game and he was stopped short of the line before Lee Gilmour knocked on with the line at his mercy.
BBC: St Helens 10-6 Wigan
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He is only the latest in a long line of Italian central bankers to go on to wield influence elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: Bank of Italy
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An increase in short interest in line with climbing prices (when other factors are not an influence) is a pattern we see when short sellers are sceptical of the price move, and believe the securities to be overbought.
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The European mission will instead study the influence of dark energy by looking for subtle distortions in the way galaxies appear as they line up on the sky, and by measuring the patterns in the three dimensional distribution of galaxies through time.
BBC: Dark discussion ahead for Europe and US
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If the moves in those other states are any indication, collective-bargaining is next in line followed by the expansion of school choice and the injection of more corporate money and influence into the public education system.
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