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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

~Evan Davis

Topics: About Academia Bench Chair Chairs Describe Example For Example Found Function High Just Law Medium Oneself Parliament Place Professions Provide Seat Self-Expression Sit Something Status Themselves Used Why Words

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It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

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Topics: About Bad Bad Idea Everyday Granted Idea Little Little Time Occasionally Plain Spend Take Take For Granted Things Thinking Time You

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Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

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Topics: After American Another Bad Black Christmas Day Describe Friday Hair Holiday Season Seen Shopping Start Street Term Thanksgiving Used Wall Wall Street

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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

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Topics: Brainy Cambridge City Cluster Hollywood Industries Knowledge Lawyers Like London Losing Means Near New Other People Regions Same So-Called Tend Think Top Up Want Who Winning Workers You

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I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.

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Topics: About Better Early Enjoyed Feel Going Got Head Job Just Late Much Myself Never Pillow Sleep Something Sort Than Thing Today Until I Feel

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When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.

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Topics: Competitive Country Down Exchange Funds Inside Invest Invested Japanese Lot Makes Manufacturing More Outside Population Pushes Rate Saves States United United States Well

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Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

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Topics: Adds Art Attracting Bars Bohemian Buzz Certain Character Does Employers Enough Every Follow Help Life May Much Name Population Streets Then Town

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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

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Topics: Finish Finish Last Get Guys Last Nice Nice Guys Sleep

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It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

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Topics: Annoy Distinction Gay How Me Myself Presenter Rather Subtle Than Think View Who I Think

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The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world.

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Topics: About Car Chinese Clear Electronics Germans Japanese Machine Tools Workshop World

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: April 8th, 1962

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