First, that investors - the notorious Mr Market - would impose limits on the scope of Scottish independence, if it wishes to remain the domicile of big banks.

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Nobody can tell how many of these vehicles come from Albania's notorious stolen-car market.

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Market sentiment can turn on a dime, and the foreign-exchange market is notorious for overshooting when it changes its mind.

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Around two-thirds of the apartments enjoy below-market rents protected by New York's notorious rent-control laws, and many tenants fear that a new, more commercially minded owner who has paid top dollar for the properties will make their lives less comfortable.

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Solar stocks are notorious for dramatic swings, having reached hysterical heights when the market was hot, and then crashing when thing went bad.

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There were approximately 96 listings for high-paying jobs per 1, 000 residents in the area, which contains the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.

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The area around the city that has dubbed itself "the capital of Silicon Valley" is home to the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.

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His predecessors and others in the field have long bemoaned the fact that so much British brilliance stumbles into the notorious "valley of death" that must be crossed for a new idea to make it to the market place.

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