In short, the islanders are a content lot these days as they re-familiarize themselves with the tranquil routines of country life.
Once, donkeys were the tractors and ATVs of country life, performing agricultural and mercantile tasks integral to farming and commerce.
The government is due to publish a rural White Paper in the spring, setting out ideas on rejuvenating the rural economy and country life.
''I also get inspired by the country life here, '' says Max as he dons his signature white smock and weaves between seamstresses busy at their machines.
The company, which also makes Country Life butter and Cathedral City cheese, will transfer milk processing to its existing sites, which include a plant in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, and one in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.
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Prince William, it can be countered, may share his father's tastes for country life and field sports, but he spends much of his time in royal unicorn mode, or something like it.
Captain's Farm is not an especially large or formal house the opposite of a plantation, in fact but the discipline of the architecture and the quality of its contents show just how elegant Yankee country life can be.
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From the Eclogues of Virgil a town dweller's paean to country life to the Corn Laws in Britain, which this newspaper was founded in 1843 to battle against, to the Treaty of Rome, which singled out farmers for special help, agriculture has always been special in Europe.
At the same time, it is poorly designed for the needs of a country where life expectancy and the nature of work and family have changed dramatically since Social Security was created in 1935.
"We have the worst male life expectancy in the country, the third worst female life expectancy in the country so we have a very poor quality of health in the surrounding community, " he said.
China Life controlled half of the country's life-insurance market, which has been growing at more than 35% a year.
Most analysts consider China Life the country's most attractive life company because it has a wider distribution network and stronger brand recognition than its competitors.
The scheme has also met fierce opposition from Nippon Life, the country's biggest life insurer, which can afford to tough things out longer than its rivals.
Last month, First National Bank and Southern Life, the country's fourth-largest life assurer, told their shareholders they were talking.
You've made the most profound commitment a person can make -- to dedicate your life to your country, and perhaps give your life for it.
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Respondents were asked if they socialised people from their host country in daily life.
They gave their lives and, in doing so, gave this country a new life.
If it had to, the country could enjoy life without exporting or importing.
Because if we cannot come to the negotiating table and their position is causing havoc, we cannot continue to pretend that we do not have a problem when our country is moving life and property at the (unintelligible) we are losing.
Yet ethnic Indians, who dominate much of the country's commercial life, make up 44% of the population.
Southerners, many of whom are ethnic Uzbeks, tend to feel shut out of the country's political life.
FSA, Britain's new financial super-regulator, reprimanded the country's largest life assurer, Prudential , for mismanaging its salesforce.
The registers contain information on everyone in the country, and record life events such as marriages and divorces.
Botswana, the world's hardest hit country, is watching life-expectancy sink back to levels last seen 30 years ago.
Enclosed by manicured lawns and towering oaks, it occupies a grand, ivy-clad country pile that started life as a Georgian shooting lodge.
Then, in the 1990s, thousands of undocumented Salvadoran immigrants were deported back to their home country, bringing gang life with them.
The Mexican constitution expressly forbids non-citizens to participate in the country's political life.
The governor of Afghanistan's central bank, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, has resigned and fled the country, saying his life is in danger for investigating fraud.
Rather, it emphasises the important role that institutional structures and policies have made to differences in growth and quality of life from country to country.
The press in particular best to be honest about it has a keen appetite for political upset, whereas the mass of the country prefers a quiet life.
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