Q: Adams Childrenswear had good sales
During the weekend of Sunday 28 December the 75 year old children's clothes retailer, Adams Childrenswear called in administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers. Adams had previously been placed in administration with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2006, but was rescued by Northern Irish businessman John Shannon in February 2007. A large rebranding followed in 2008, after 42 stores were closed. Adams has outlets worldwide in places such as Saudi Arabia, and also makes clothing under the Mini Mode brand for Boots. At the time of the 2008 administration there were 260 stores in the UK and 116 outlets overseas, employing around 2000 people. Adams is reported to owe around 20 million to Mr Shannon and 10 million to Burdale.
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Q: There was ketchup on the table ready for Jermaine.
More Ketchup<br>Jermaine went to eat at a diner. He ordered a burger and fries. The waitress brought the food out. Jermaine noticed the table was out of ketchup. Jermaine asked the waitress to bring more ketchup.
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Q: There are slim hopes that diplomacy is the complete solution to an ongoing violent situation.
The use of diplomacy in this situation has already, well, it goes hour-by-hour and day-by-day now. It's a very tense situation there. But in the last 24 hours there has been some subsiding of the violence there. It's too much to hope that this is going to continue, but I do hope that it will continue.
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Q: The federal government does not cancel things in winter.
The Auditor General, in his 1997 report, confirmed the importance of habitat restoration; yet this winter the federal government cancelled a mapping and inventory program developed on the coast to standardize essential salmon habitat mapping and inventory services and put displaced fishermen back to work.
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No