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The irony here – not lost on the major banks’ finance directors – is that as fast as banks add capital from rights issues and retained earnings to meet the demands of prudential regulators, the funds are drained away by conduct regulators.

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It is expected of me." George drained another glass of claret and turned to me.

And all the color just drained from his face, and he looked at me, and he said, "Forget everything you learned."

And it's probably the case that this material has washed off the highlands of Titan through these channels that we saw, and has drained over billions of years to fill in low-lying basins.

If you're poor, you're more likely to live in rudimentary housing on marginal land that's poorly drained.

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