True to Marketing 101 wisdom, he told us what he was going to tell us, then he told us in detail, and then he reminded us again in summary, none of which helped the schedule any.

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Then she came back a little later and reminded me again because she noticed that the red light on my noise reducing headphones was still on, even though I had taken them off my ears and they were hanging loosely around my neck.

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Then again, as the Bank of England has reminded us, it has often been "special factors" pushing inflation up in the past few years - particularly, big changes in the price of oil and other commodities.

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