• But garden history is mainly about large gardens, and people who have large gardens are often rich.

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  • And its services business is mainly about keeping IT systems running, not about helping firms reinvent themselves (as IBM does).

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  • His programme for France, which has one of the biggest public sectors in the world, is mainly about more spending and more taxes.

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  • In this version, the story is mainly about the strategic missteps of one company that has so far failed to communicate a coherent sense of its own future to investors, customers, and other stakeholders.

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  • What the ABA is mainly talking about are parts of the bill that force banks to layer on the compliance and rein in or curtail certain activities.

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  • What is holding back firms from investing is now mainly uncertainty about demand rather than access to credit, says Mr Radley.

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  • But if money remains cheap, it is mainly because of worries about deflation.

    ECONOMIST: American banks

  • Even if the Budget Control Act were to remain in effect for ten years, which it most definitely will not, what people in the defense sector care about is mainly the next two years.

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  • These days, what evolutionary psychologists have mainly noted about the sexes is that they look for different things in a mate.

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  • It's about the fact that he is an Evangelical Christian and those polls were mainly taken before Romney's speech about religion.

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  • Ethanol, which is used mainly as an additive to petrol, is not a particularly good fuel: it offers only about two-thirds as much energy as petrol and can corrode pipelines and car engines.

    ECONOMIST: America's biofuel muddle

  • " But mainly, Tan says, the film is about "music and love.

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  • Both projects have worked reasonably well, but the Indonesian scheme is regarded as a far greater success, mainly because about 30% of the funds involved in the Thai program were found to have been misdirected or at least not given to the neediest kids.

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  • To put it simply, thinking about the planet under pressure is still framed mainly in terms of problem-solving.

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  • Although the disease is currently a threat mainly to poultry, many are worried about the supply of anti-viral drugs and vaccines for a human pandemic.

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  • The contractor is responsible for about 40% of the increase, resulting mainly from the need to change the original design in response to excessive weight and other problems encountered in development.

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  • The nine-and-a-half-hour film about the German death camps in Poland is composed mainly of interviews with Jews who survived them, Germans who helped run them, and Poles who lived alongside them.

    NEWYORKER: Witness

  • My conclusion is that third-quarter growth in the U.S. was mainly about inventory replenishment.

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  • Although her performances at the State Bar in Glasgow are mainly a one-woman show about her life, she is joined on stage by her brother "Big Tam" McGarvey, who will be her musical accompaniment.

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  • There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

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  • "That is about 2% of the mortgage market and they would have been taken mainly by buy-to-let borrowers and sub-prime borrowers, " he said.

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  • When the U.S. Treasury sells bonds, about a third of the issuance is taken up by foreign buyers, mainly Asian central banks and quasi-state backed investment funds of the Middle East.

    FORBES: Market Scan

  • But the deal has one great advantage: it is supported by the government via the BNDES. Brazilian policymakers are worried about Brazil becoming mainly an exporter of commodities.

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  • Because it is mainly businesses that develop and spread new technologies, businesses also tend to face the first questions about how to use them.

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  • About 70% of all household and business debt is denominated in foreign currencies, mainly Swiss francs, making the country hostage to a currency over which it has limited control.

    ECONOMIST: Hungarian politics

  • "That channel is mainly used by developers, but it's worth letting them know if you have concerns about an app and you aren't getting useful responses from the developer, " he said.

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  • Switzerland's other major bank, Credit Suisse - with over a trillion dollars in total assets and another trillion in clients' money - remains under investigation by the US authorities, as does another high profile bank, Julius Baer, which is about a fifth of the size of Credit Suisse, as well as 11 other mainly local, cantonal banks.

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  • But oddly, the expiration of Bush's fast-track authority is not as damaging as it might seem at first--mainly because the administration has done just about all it can do on free trade deals for now.

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  • If water is mainly a problem for people in the country, it does not mean that city-dwellers are unconcerned about their surroundings.

    ECONOMIST: So long as it doesn��t cost too much

  • Of the area's 25m households, he is chasing just 9m, mainly the lower-middle classes, who tend to watch more television and care more about its cost.

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