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    <description>When I walk into One Alfred Place, a new club tucked behind Tottenham Court Road, I suddenly find myself in an alternative world of work</description>
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    <description>Retailers slashing prices in an attempt to prise open the nation's wallets is not well-liked at all by ballsier rivals</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Budget report:&lt;/strong&gt; Accountants are busy looking at schemes to prevent City high-flyers and other top earners being hit by a near-60% rate of taxation on their pay packets</description>
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    <description>David Cameron has told his shadow cabinet to intensify a search for Whitehall savings to make room for possible tax cuts</description>
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    <description>Unemployment hit an 11-year high of 1.82 million amid fears that the jobless total could near three million by 2010</description>
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    <description>A stunned City welcomed today's unprecedented cut in interest rates and said there was more to come as the economic crisis in the UK deepens</description>
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    <description>Alistair Darling has admitted his £500 billion gamble to beat the credit crunch might not be enough</description>
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    <description>One rule for banks — another for everybody else. In the US, the Federal Reserve phoned Credit Suisse to see if it had pulled a line of credit from Lehman Brothers</description>
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    <description>A-level students who would have been rewarded with C grades 20 years ago can now expect to gain As, researchers said</description>
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    <description>The quality of first-year students at university has plummeted as teenagers are spoon-fed at school, a report warns</description>
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    <description>Going 15 years without a recession does have a downside  -  and one that is becoming ever more obvious.</description>
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    <description>BA chief executive Willie Walsh appeals to business leaders not to judge his company by the disastrous opening of Terminal 5</description>
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    <description>Alistair Darling was facing demands for a one-year delay to his plans to tax rich foreigners today as the City sought further retreat on the proposals</description>
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