Especially when you look around and realize that you're the only out-of-towner in the room.

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There can still be anomalies, like that out-of-towner, but overall we have a pretty good idea what is going to happen and when.

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Chris Towner, of foreign currency exchange brokers HiFX, notes that the UK is on a stable outlook from Moody's, meaning there are unlikely to be any further shocks for the currency in the near future.

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Mrs Towner said the couple were inspired by last week's High Court ruling, which followed a case taken by 72-year-old Yvonne Watts from Bedford, after she was forced to pay for a hip operation in France.

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The same happened at the national level: the 19th Amendment of 1920 was followed a year later by the Sheppard-Towner Act, a landmark public health measure, because members of Congress believed that was what women wanted.

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