Fight the urge to flake out on your current job and spend your time finishing critical projects and tying up loose ends.

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When you have a story as sprawling as Game of Thrones, with a cast that only continues to grow, and plot-lines sprouting up like magic beanstalks all over the place, the first episode of a season can feel a whole lot like tying up loose ends.

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Only this week Mr Potanin's Uneximbank group was tying up the loose ends on one such deal by winning an auction for a 38% stake in a metals firm, Norilsk Nickel a stake that the bank had been managing on behalf of the government for the past 18 months.

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