Mr Hall said a piece he picked up - a quarter of the section - weighed about 15 lbs (6.8 kg), the equivalent of about three bricks.

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But the legal-proceedings section of the company's second-quarter report to the Securities and Exchange Commission makes sobering reading.

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That is a worry because that was the standout strong section of the global economy in the first quarter.

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The 14 teams are divided into two groups of seven and after a round-robin section the top four from each group will go through to the quarter-finals.

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