The bank said customers should bring photographic identification and account details (account number and sort code) and a pay-slip if the balance did not reflect any salary payments.

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Both books deplore the unchecked triumph of market forces, as if the state evaporated when the Berlin Wall came down. (It didn't: look at your pay-slip.) Both, rejecting without comment a basic tenet of economics, take it for granted that when countries trade, some at least of them must lose the question being whether all will lose, or just America.

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So when cost of living is taken into account, richer, higher paid, higher taxed nations like Denmark slip in the pay scale rankings to lower than mid-table in the ECA list of 55.

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England's back row will need to pay attention, or Cooper will slip through their fingers.

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Americans were rightfully angry that some on Wall Street had caused a financial crisis that left many families with a pink slip instead of a pay cheque.

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But crucially they failed to produce anything from them, and they were made to pay when Paul Deacon's nimble footwork saw him slip through the Huddersfield defence and off-load to Finnigan, who touched down by the posts.

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It would be easy to slip a few across to the rebels who pay handsomely for hardware, in diamonds.

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