Yet unlike today, the colonial system evolved so that once indentured servants arrived in the new world, they usually had up to 30 days for their contracts to be bought out by a family member, friend, or someone willing to give an advance in order to hire them for their services.

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In order to give an inflation figure for households like yours, you need to come up with fresh weightings, which can then be used each month with the ONS figures for how much prices have risen or fallen in each of the 12 categories.

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The European Commission has given Microsoft a formal warning for failing to obey an order to give customers a choice of internet browsers.

BBC: Microsoft hit with formal warning on browser choice from EU

Where individual idea recognition and information gathering is not valued, top-down corporations give members an incentive to hide information and dissemble in order to keep the bar for performance low.

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The UUP's Leslie Cree argued for an incremental lowering of corporation tax in order to give the economy time to balance out.

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The guardians regularly come under fire for eliminating prominent reformers from elections in order to give conservative candidates an edge.

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"They agreed on the need for an amicable resolution to this situation, in order to give the people of Illinois full representation, " the aide said.

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