When Mervyn King does cautious optimism, you can keep the emphasis on cautious. The Bank's new forecast for the economy is rather more upbeat than it was in August, and to judge by the "backcast" for GDP, it expects some...
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The state capital of California is not, as you might perhaps expect, either Los Angeles or San Francisco but Sacramento. The city's Director of Parks and Recreation is called Bob Overstreet and he does indeed work over the street in Room 400, 1231, I Street.
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