In crude terms, this holds that each company or sector of the economy needs a certain amount of labour, at any one moment.

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We called it a flash deal, so at any moment it would be released, and there would only be a certain number of them available.

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And so, when it finally happened, because it was bound to happen, we all knew it was only a matter of time, we felt, in the midst of our curiosity and terror, a certain calm, the calm of familiarity, we knew what was expected of us, at such a moment.

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"It might contain traces of horsemeat, but we don't know for certain at the moment if this is the case, " said Esther Filon, a spokeswoman for the Dutch food authority.

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