The pair, formerly ranked number one in the world, opened the Vancouver Olympic figure skating competitions by performing first of the 20 competing pairs.

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My number-one priority, every single day, is to figure out how we can get businesses to hire and create jobs with decent wages.

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But there are various estimates of the exact number of poor in India and one suggests that the true figure could be as high as 77%.

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For just about everyone else trying to figure out how to get Google firehosing traffic to the site is job number one.

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He is one of 6 tycoons to move into the billionaire ranks, pushing up the number of ten figure fortunes to 32.

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But in the midst of that wiretapping bonanza, a more surprising figure is the number of cases in which law enforcement encountered encryption as a barrier: one.

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If you compare this latest three-month figure with the one published last month (i.e. the three months to September), the number out of work has barely changed at all - in fact it has fallen by just 4, 000.

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Never mind that critics argued that this figure, and the fears it engendered, were hugely exaggerated: for one thing, the calculation assumed a huge number of illegitimate children would be clamouring to enter the territory.

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