Which means that, relative to big banks, the costs of borrowing for building societies amd tiddler banks would rise sharpest.

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But sometimes a tiddler stands out from the rest.

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The Wendelstein 7-AS, a tiddler with a fuel capacity of but a single cubic metre, was built by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics at Garching, Germany, and operated from 1988 to 2002.

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