He bought his new home, he says, with proceeds from the sale of an old one and in a less-than-prime area.

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One in six adults is either trying to launch a business or is the owner of a new venture less than 42 months old and another one in six is running a more established venture.

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Against all this, the old idea of "one quarter and a cloud of profit" is of much less value.

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With the passing of stamp and butterfly collecting into the obscurest realms of irredeemable geekdom, accumulating (and drinking) rare, unusual and generally very old whiskies has emerged as one of the more surprising--if less than headline-generating--trends of the 21st century.

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Among other disparities, the forensic analysis allegedly found that ink on the contract produced by Mr. Ceglia was less than two years old and that the fonts on page one and page two of the contract were different.

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After studying the Northumberland bird's plumage on hours of videotape and a number of photographs, experts decided the bird was less than one year old.

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He says the old system was not perfect, but it worked - and he fears the new one will become less effective because of a new layer of management.

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Of course no one can expect more from culture-less Americans, people from a country that is 300 yrs old and was established through stealing and killing of millions of natives.

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