But a look at the statistics for patents - a key indicator of commercial intent - reveals how many countries and companies are prepared to throw the graphene dice.

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Experimenters have teased out this surprising conclusion by inviting subjects to gamble on the throw of dice.

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Monetising corporate debt is the last throw of the reflationary dice and will signpost one last, desperate attempt to keep the old system alive.

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So Mr Papandreou may have looked at the file and said, I can't sell this to my party, nor to my voters, and the business elite are emigrating en masse, so throw the dice.

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The hyper troupe makes a manic attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes, and admission cost is quirkily-based on the throw of a dice.

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