Although San Francisco has awarded a contract, and Chicago is just about to put one out to tender, in most American cities there is not enough city centre shopping to make the business work.

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We cut the bureaucracy and put one consumer watchdog in charge, with just one job: looking out for regular people in the financial system.

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These, of course, are returns for just staying put in one investment and not trading in and out of it.

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Having hardly sustained any injuries in the ring -- just one broken thumb -- I seriously put my back out in 2009 when I tripped over a bandage hanging out of my bag.

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And, as if to confirm it, the regime chose this week to put on trial for just one day, and almost out of public view four of the best-known dissidents.

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